Vehicle installation: board cameras or bullet cameras?

[todd2 0]

I want to install 4 cameras in a vehicle to try to get full coverage,

including low on the vehicle--so the cameras will have to be high on the

pillars looking out a near side window.

 

Problem: do I go with board cameras or bullet cameras? It may be

impossible to make it very covert given the coverage requirements,

but it seems the board cameras are less obvious than the bullet cams.

 

However, mounting the bullet cams on pillars would be a snap compared

with the board cameras. With the board cameras, I'd need to fashion

some sort of housing (like a "gauge pod") that sticks out of the pillar and

covers the camera board. Not sure this is even possible without custom

plastic fabrication capability.

 

It looks like the selection of board cameras is slightly better, but I

could still get want I wanted as a bullet camera I suspect.

[tomcctv 188]

Hi. Todd.

 

you can now get nice very small bullet cameras (about the size of your small finger) i use them in taxi cabs. board cameras are very hard to hide.

[Soundy 1]

Keep in mind that a most bullet cams are just board cams in little metal tubes...

[suky 0]

You also can take vandal proof dome camera into account, for it is also less obvious than bullet cameras.

[todd2 0]

Keep in mind that a most bullet cams are just board cams in little metal tubes...

 

Agreed, which means the camera signal is the same, but the mounting process is different,

as well as the level of concealment.

 

You also can take vandal proof dome camera into account, for it is also less obvious than bullet cameras.

 

Perhaps, if a tinted dome is used, but wouldn't that lower the night lux rating of the camera?

[thewireguys 3]

You might want to check this out

 

http://www.mobotix.com/eng_US/content/view/full/37540

[survtech 0]

In-vehicle cameras are subject to wide variations in light; not only from day to night but sunlight coming from varying directions as the vehicle travels. That can create havoc with both board and bullet cameras. You might want to look at WDR day/night dome cameras as an option.

[thewireguys 3]

In-vehicle cameras are subject to wide variations in light; not only from day to night but sunlight coming from varying directions as the vehicle travels. That can create havoc with both board and bullet cameras. You might want to look at WDR day/night dome cameras as an option.

 

The Mobotix setup can handle that with no moving parts, Megapixel images built-in storage and NVR, if you really what to get into it you could use the trigger input to only record when the car is off and use the trigger output to a relay and the fuel pump to shut the car off if you setup remote access with a 3g card...... hell with the VOIP sip capabilities if some one steals your car you program the camera to call your cell phone and have a 2 conversation with them as your turning off the fuel pump.

 

You could also use the Q24 for a one camera solution 360degree solution.

[Tailbone215 0]

 

The Mobotix setup can handle that with no moving parts, Megapixel images built-in storage and NVR, if you really what to get into it you could use the trigger input to only record when the car is off and use the trigger output to a relay and the fuel pump to shut the car off if you setup remote access with a 3g card...... hell with the VOIP sip capabilities if some one steals your car you program the camera to call your cell phone and have a 2 conversation with them as your turning off the fuel pump.

 

You could also use the Q24 for a one camera solution 360degree solution.

 

What is the cost (retail)?

[thewireguys 3]

 

The Mobotix setup can handle that with no moving parts, Megapixel images built-in storage and NVR, if you really what to get into it you could use the trigger input to only record when the car is off and use the trigger output to a relay and the fuel pump to shut the car off if you setup remote access with a 3g card...... hell with the VOIP sip capabilities if some one steals your car you program the camera to call your cell phone and have a 2 conversation with them as your turning off the fuel pump.

 

You could also use the Q24 for a one camera solution 360degree solution.

 

What is the cost (retail)?

 

pricing on there web site

 

http://www.mobotix.com/eng_US/content/view/full/37540

[rory 0]

KT&C, some of the smallest bullet cameras around.

http://www.ktnc.co.kr/english/viewtopic.php?t=430

 

as mentioned really no bullet or board cameras handle lighting well, that goes for most DOMES also, as many of them are just the same board cameras.

 

WDR Dome Camera? The following is an inexpensive one.

http://www.cnbtec.com/en/html/product/product.php?seqx_prod=971

 

Oh yeah, none of them have any moving parts.

[thewireguys 3]

KT&C, some of the smallest bullet cameras around.

http://www.ktnc.co.kr/english/viewtopic.php?t=430

 

as mentioned really no bullet or board cameras handle lighting well, that goes for most DOMES also, as many of them are just the same board cameras.

 

WDR Dome Camera? The following is an inexpensive one.

http://www.cnbtec.com/en/html/product/product.php?seqx_prod=971

 

Oh yeah, none of them have any moving parts.

 

Built-in DC Iris Vari-focal Lens and

[rory 0]

 

Built-in DC Iris Vari-focal Lens and

how is that a moving part??

[Soundy 1]

 

Built-in DC Iris Vari-focal Lens and

how is that a moving part??

 

The iris moves; it's motor-driven.

[rory 0]

The iris moves; it's motor-driven.

 

Well if you want to really consider that a moving part

but the bullet cameras are not Auto Iris lenses.