Submersible camera
Hi guys
After recently buying a 50m submersible camera (from dinodirect.com) and then shopping around for a12V 10" monitor and a 12V DVR (from ebay), I've finally assembled the pieces. After trying it out at home, we loaded up the Trailblazer yesterday for a quick spin out from The Cut to the 3 mile reef so we could wet it's little bum.
The drift was quite quick and the current was even quicker, so we were seeing the bottom at almost 'fast forward' speed.
The colour and definition were quite good and although we were only in 12m of water, I was pretty impressed with the results. The footage that we captured was a bit pixelated, which maybe due to the camera, but nonetheless, it was ok. The attached images are not real good as they've been captured from Windows media player via a screen dump.
With a bit less current flowing and a bit less drift, I'm sure the images would be alot better, but it's a start.
regards
rusty...
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Cammos
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Wow, thats a lot of effort
Wow, thats a lot of effort just to see the bottom.
Aaron Santos
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Hi mate. Ive always been
Hi mate. Ive always been interested in this kind of set up. do you mind me asking how much it was to set up.
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r.gates
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Prices
The camera (including the battery, charger and 3.5" screen) kit was $150 including postage. The 12V 10" monitor was $97 and the 12V DVR was $70. The camera was bought online at www.dinodirect.com and the monitor and DVR came from ebay.
The only other thing I had to buy was an SD card for the DVR, as well as making up a multi outlet power box to supply power to the camera (has 2 inputs, 1 for the camera and 1 for the LEDs), monitor and DVR.
I need to make a better mounting bracket for the monitor so I can mount it next to the sounder for quick comparisons. I'm sure it will be a work in progress for some time yet, though.
Happy to supply part numbers, etc if that helps anyone else.
regards
rusty...
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snappermiles
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i had the same camera
be very carefull with how you store it and how hard you hit the bottom with it as they tend to crack the seal very easy! i got the first one under warranty but then the same happened again six months later! they are a great camera when they are working and you should get alot better picture than that! although i hooked mine up to a small 12volt tv! its interesting to see how many fish come out to see them at night too! we had a massive cuddle fish try to eat ours whilst looking at coral at night time!
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