I hadn't thought of that but TBH I was only thinking of a couple of metres. 3m would be enough to get to the other side of the rooms in my house; I think the only time I might need 5m would be if looking down a manhole.
It might not be hard to do but I wondered if they cut corners to keep costs down. Totally OT but each year we buy a new set of outdoor Christmas lights because they aren't as waterproof as they claim to be!
Interesting that some ebay sellers claim they can be used for ENT!
Just noticed one with a 10m lead on ebay. Does that mean it might not work reliably? TIA
I notice that the one linked to only had about 80cm of "tube" before the handset that had the dimmer control for the LEDs on. I don't think it would be very easy stuffing that through a wall or floor void, also need quite a large access hole.
Are there any inspection cameras that just have a short semi-rigid tube then a long (5m or so) cable to the handset?
It depends on what goes down the cable from the camera... if you stick the transition to USB at the plug end, you sidestep the issue.
I have often thought about buying one of these. Can someone post pictures of what their camera shows so that i can judge how useful one might be?
Mike
Some camera shake present. ;-)
I wonder if the other cable cams have a wider range of focus... there are times where it would be handy to have something that can see much further away. (my optical endoscope is quite good in that sense in that stuff at infinity is in focus - however it lacks illumination power, and also resolution to make much sense of stuff more than a few feet away)
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
I have to say that the picture quality I get from the £17 one from CPC is far better than that
I have bought one of these From CPC for less than £20. However the disk looks to be blank. anyone got an idea where I might get suitable software.
For which OS?
Why wouldn't you go back to CPC and complain?
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