Here's a fun one.....what have you caught on camera?

[ocdchris 0]

Hey guys. I thought this would be fun and help me get to know you guys better.

 

So I have had CCTV for a few years. This is what I caught on tape:

 

1: Hot tub repair guy taking a leak in my driveway.

2: Roofer backing his trailer into my BBQ, and denying it

3: Punk rummaging thru my workshop for 10 minutes!! (no arrest made)

4: 3 drunk kids taking a short cut thru my back yard and loosing a shoe in my garden. Lol

5: A truck circling my street before stealing my neighbors tractor.

6: A punk stealing change out of my car.

 

I'm sure there's more but these are the ones that come to mind.

 

Cheers.

 

Chris

[ljarrald 0]

feel free to post the footage...

 

 

 

here are some of mine, none of them are very good quality.

 

man having a piss in the ally (the camera was not even fully installed, it had only been connected for about 10 mins.

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cats having a scrap:

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bug crawling on CCTV camera

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and lots more which won't be shared till i blank out the street names from the footage.

 

feel free to subscribe to my youtube account

Edited March 9, 2012 by Guest

[tip_ex 0]

I got 2 cops and a German shepherd in my backyard, looking for somebody.

they stayed there for a minute and then left. The dog jumped over the fence.

[shockwave199 0]

Almost a year into having cameras up, this is the only interesting thing-

 

LvigejLKkow

 

Tell you the truth, I'd rather have uneventful stuff anyway. Calm and boring- a good thing to find on your cameras.

[ljarrald 0]

we also have loads of foxes and birds and stuff, but i never bother saving them.

[Liber8or 0]

1. A teenage citrus thief doing doing a "pick and run" from my neighbors grapefruit trees. Doesn't seem to be an ongoing issue, so I didn't really tell anyone.

 

2. A street fight, which included my neighbors son, wherein he beat the tar out of a guy who rides his motorcycle too fast down our street and near their children. Because the video implicated the neighbor's son as the primary aggressor, and because I wish to remain at peace with my neighbor, and because I felt like the motorcyclist probably deserved it, I didn't share my video tape with the police.

[cctvmann 0]

weve caught smurfs walking thru the road

 

 

 

 

 

and sparrow hawks in the garden

 

 

plus a fox out on the drive footpath

[norcaldad 0]

Smurf's! Lock thread down! We have a winner! " title="Applause" /> That can't be beat unless this thread strays from it's Disney rating.

[Soundy 1]

Found 7 or 8 bags of trash, mostly yard waste, down at the end of our cul-de-sac one day. Checked the cameras...

 

Truck comes down to the end of our cul-de-sac loaded with garbage bags...

 

 

And leaves without them...

 

 

Fortunately, he was nice enough to make his plate visible...

 

This guy left a mattress behind...

 

 

 

Unfortunately the plate cam was offline at the time.

[Soundy 1]

This guy ran right through a glass "fence":

 

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[ocdchris 0]

Awesome guys!!! Thanks,,

 

Hey Soundy, what kinda cameras and recording level are you using? Awesome picture. I just upgraded my DVR to a digimerge DH230. I will be able to record D1@15fps on all channels.....

[Soundy 1]

The truck pics are all 1.3MP IQEye IQ511 cameras, one with a 7-70mm lens, the other with a 2.5-7mm lens. Don't remember offhand what framerate I had set at the time. Note that they're resized for the board - click the picture to load the popup viewer, then click the arrows in the bottom-right to view it full-size and full resolution.

 

Resolution is more important that framerate most of the time anyway.

[ocdchris 0]

See, that's the thing I don't understand. I just picked up a new camera to try. 600tvl. I was so impressed with the picture that I got 4 more to replace my old cameras.

I thought 600tvl was pretty high res but it's not is it? Are mega pixel cams the new thing? I don't know much about them. Thx

[Soundy 1]

With analog video, your maximum resolution is limited by the video standard. NTSC color video is 525 lines max, 486 visible. Anything over that is essentially wasted. Analog scan lines don't have horizontal "resolution" as such, but the analog-to-digital converter still has to sample it at a fixed horizontal pixel size; D1 is 720x480 pixels sampling resolution, equivalent to a little over 0.34MP.

 

The IQ511 is 1.3MP, or 1280x1024 pixels. To overcome the limitations of analog video transmission, most of them are network-based cameras - they simply plug into the network and send streaming video, similar to, say, YouTube. You use an NVR (network video recorder) or hybrid DVR to receive and record the video stream.

 

Currently, 2MP, 3MP, and 5MP are the most common resolutions, but there are surveillance cameras available that do up to 29MP. See some other samples here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=11322

[shockwave199 0]

Edit never mind. The answer lies within.

[Soundy 1]

Edit never mind. The answer lies within.

Adventure, excitement - a Jedi craves not these things.

[ocdchris 0]

Ok cool. I figured it out. I was doing some reading online and clearly the ip cams are the future. I see a problem at my place because I have 20mb download speeds but only 1mb upload. That could be a problem if I had a few ip cams and tried to use my Internet as well. Still, the high res of the ip cams is really cool.

They are pricey but I'm sure that will come down as they gain market share over analogue.

 

 

With analog video, your maximum resolution is limited by the video standard. NTSC color video is 525 lines max, 486 visible. Anything over that is essentially wasted. Analog scan lines don't have horizontal "resolution" as such, but the analog-to-digital converter still has to sample it at a fixed horizontal pixel size; D1 is 720x480 pixels sampling resolution, equivalent to a little over 0.34MP.

 

The IQ511 is 1.3MP, or 1280x1024 pixels. To overcome the limitations of analog video transmission, most of them are network-based cameras - they simply plug into the network and send streaming video, similar to, say, YouTube. You use an NVR (network video recorder) or hybrid DVR to receive and record the video stream.

 

Currently, 2MP, 3MP, and 5MP are the most common resolutions, but there are surveillance cameras available that do up to 29MP. See some other samples here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=11322

[tomcctv 187]

ip cams are the future. I see a problem at my place because I have 20mb download speeds but only 1mb upload. That could be a problem if I had a few ip cams and tried to use my Internet as well

 

 

hi. it will not effect your internet. there just on your local network.

[ocdchris 0]

My understanding was that they were uploaded and saved on a hosting site. Is that correct? Or can you also have them saved to a local HDD ?

[tomcctv 187]

My understanding was that they were uploaded and saved on a hosting site. Is that correct? Or can you also have them saved to a local HDD ?

 

 

 

hi saved to local HDD or hybrid or NVR. you can run IP without internet.

[jxk716 0]

These are High School kids walking home after a football game one Friday night as I was out walking around the yard. They spotted me watching them so the boy demonstrated his might in front of the girls.

[Soundy 1]

My understanding was that they were uploaded and saved on a hosting site. Is that correct? Or can you also have them saved to a local HDD ?

Almost all of those services you see, aside from the expensive commercial-grade ones that require a super-high-bandwidth connection, are designed for use with low-resolution, low-quality IP cameras (usually VGA-resolution cameras, 640x480, even lower than D1).

 

Remember, "IP" does not necessarily equate to "megapixel" - it just means it's a network camera.

 

As I said up above, and as tom reiterated, IP cameras are most often recorded locally, either to a network drive, an NVR, or a hybrid DVR.

 

Here are a couple examples of analog and IP cameras (again, both 1.3MP IQ511s), all recorded on the same Vigil hybrid DVR:

 

Cheap dome recording CIF resolution:

 

 

IQ511 1.3MP (dome is in bottom-left corner of the frame - click for full-resolution view):

 

 

Same model mini-dome, recorded at D1:

 

 

And IQ511 mounted right beside it:

 

[Brenton81 0]

My apologies for bumping this topic back up. I caught this a few weeks ago out front of my house. I wonder what it was all about...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpT4_Pc2l-U

[Barry chan 0]

Hello,guys,it is funning to see the catched picture.

[really? you have to inject sales pitches into every post?]

[Birdman Adam 0]

Well, this is relevant: Hope I'm not dredging up, seems this thread is rather new...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrRknh0K6ww

 

Happened today at 3:42AM! I was sleeping, jumped out of bed and thought a bomb had gone off...! Turns out it was gigantic strike, probably within 100yards of our house. Fortunately no fires... But I think you can hear a tree falling in the background. We live in rather forest-y area so lots of big oaks around to get hit.