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Location: The desert | I'm looking to get a camera that I could set underwater to record for 10 minutes every few hours, or once a day every other day. I don't want to buoy it, as to not have it ripped off. The purpose would be to have these cameras set on artificial structure to evaluate use by species.
I don't know if this technology is out there, but perhaps someone has modified a trail cam to do this?
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Location: The desert | Guest - 5/30/2012 11:40 AM
Ever heard of google? Try it.
Certainly, however all I get is aqua vu cameras or similar, which require a receiver on the surface. I want to place this out for a season and have nothing at the surface and have it be programmable to record at given intervals. I've looked at the GoPro camera and was not impressed with their video quality, or the modifications I would have to do to the camera to get a better quality image.
Feel free to show off your google expertise, and I will gladly admit my stupidity on the subject. |
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| Check out the scubatoys.com forum, lots of good info with underwater cameras. H |
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| http://www.feeding-systems.ca/dircameras.htm |
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| What's your budget? The GoPro takes great underwater footage, provided you put it in a flat-lens housing which retails for around $80. If you purchased a DSLR you're looking at a minimum of $500 and another $1,000+ for a quality underwater housing.
The issue isn't going to be the camera, but the intervals at which you want to take the photos. You're also going to run into battery issues if you don't have some sort of external power source. On top of those two things, you'll want a large (32+ GB) memory card to store the footage on.
How long do you want the camera out there for?
Will there be sufficient light at the bottom? Can you fit the whole reef in the frame or is the reef too large to fit everything in the frame? You might consider suspending a camera off the bottom to get a better field of view (stick a piece of rebar in a cinder block, fill the holes of the cinder block with cement, attach the camera to the piece of rebar).
Have you tried searching research papers to see if someone else has done something similar? Your proposal is an atypical approach to quantifying reef usage by different species. |
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| Check out this site and contact them I'm sure they can tell you what works and what dosen't.
When the eyes are running the Wolf lots of fish pass these cams.
http://wolfrivercam.com/WolfRiverCam.html
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Email me, I can help.
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Location: The desert | sworrall - 5/30/2012 6:52 PM
Email me, I can help.
Will do. Will shoot you an email tomorrow. |
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Stationary underwater video camera