Spying on fish

[DD 0]

Hi all, I'm pretty new to this and would appreciate any ideas you have.

 

We are replacing an old VHS based system at a fish weir. We are looking at two of these cameras for the underwater footage : http://client5.activdemo.com/web/site/Products/UnderwaterImaging/ColourCameras/Colour_Cameras.asp

 

What we would like to do is have a PC set up for recording/viewing of the footage. We only need the first 10 minutes of every hour recorded and would like it to be in an easy format that we could burn a week or more onto a CD/DVD and review later. I was looking at using the VJUSB-4 package form Video Insight, but would like to get some of your opinions before I spend the $.

 

I don't need the remote viewing, archiving, ect . . but I do need something that is going to be reliable since it will be at a vary remote location. Mostly I just need something that will display the two cameras, record 10 minuet clips, allow the biologists to review the clips, and a way to burn the clips to disks.

 

What do you think, am I on the right track?

 

Thanks

 

DD

[VST_Man 1]

ILC-400 may be the camera your looking for? seen it on this web site......

http://www.polarisusa.com/cgi-bin/view_product_detail.pl?product_category_id=61&template_id=18

 

never tried it but at this price you can afford to buy several and do replacement repair? anyway, take a look and let us know what you buy, and/or post a pic of the results.even if they are fishy.

[DD 0]

VST:

Thanks for the reply. I'm more interested in the recording/vewing setup. The camereas are going to be submerged for 4 mounths and replacing them mid way would not be easy.

 

Thanks

DD

[rory 0]

Check out this underwater Camera from Extreme CCTV.

http://www.extremecctv.com/products/index.cfm?img=33

 

Rory

[DD 0]

Thanks, I'll look into thoes.

 

Does anyone have experiance with this software? I would like to know how it stores it's files. Is there a folder with a bunch of time stamed AVI or MPG files? I'm most conserned about how easy it will be to work with the files once they have been created.

 

thanks

DD

[rory 0]

Do you mean Video Insight? If so Thomas works for them so would be able to answer any questions you have on that.