Some inter-species drama in my garden last night
https://youtu.be/r_Pa9gMR_Sc
Meanwhile my nephew's wildlife camera captured a squirrel, a raccoon, and a snake on his patio. He's in Florida.
What camera do you use for these videos?
The cheapest one I could find. A CamPark T20 for about £40 from amazon.
And it is cheap in every sense:
- You need to reset the date and time every time you change the batteries
- there bit in the middle is usually over exposed.
- The menu is clunky, and there are 6 buttons for navigating etc but what they are and what they do has to be determined by trial and error.
- the screen is tiny and pretty much useless for reviewing results.
- It gives various options for resolutions but lower resolutions are crops (or in effect a digital zoom - 1290x1080 is wide angle; 640x480 is a narrow angle)
- aiming it has to be done by guesswork.
- It produces huge files - 300+ Mb for 45 seconds at max 'resolution'. (I use mencoder to reduce them to 12 Mb without apparent loss of quality)
- There's a minimum five second delay between detecting movement and starting to record, so what you want to record may be gone by the time it starts recording
But there are ways round these and the results have exceeded my expectations. For £40 I can live with its shortcomings.
