 
 
  Posts: 32935
 
  Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | New OutdoorsFIRST gear on the way for the continuing hydrophone piece and IceFIRST's video, should be interesting. Here's the hodge podge:  
  
http://cgi.ebay.com/UNDERWATER-Ice-Fishfinder-housing-Color-camera-...   
  
$50 plus shipping. Good resolution, color, and infrared after dark. I have a B&W on the way, too, those are really cheap.  
  
A harness that allows direct to edit capture to my Dell Mini 9 via USB 2.  
  
A 12 volt adapter for the mini 9 and the camera.  
  
4 gig SD card for the Mini 9 records 4 hours of direct to edit video.  
  
Hydrophone hooked up to the microphone port or adapted to the audio in on the direct to edit harness.  
  
We'll build a hard case for the computer, camera and battery in a hard plastic Pelican Case type box. I'm going to use a small deep cycle, not a camera battery, so I can record for about 100 hours straight on a single charge.  
  
Battery will be about $45. Camera $50. Harness about $50. You can get a Mini 9 or Acer mini for about $190 to $230. I already had one so I'm not counting that in the total, just going to use it for this purpose as well as others I bought it to accomplish. Any laptop with USB 2 will work, but the little guys are easy to keep safe and dry and the Mini 9 uses a solid state hard drive so it's pretty tough. You also can use any camcorder with video/audio in and any 12 volt TV or DVD player with Video/Audio in.  
  
Full color hi resolution video with great audio that will drop right into Final Cut. Sweet.
 
 
 (electrolaptops_1965_0.jpg) 
 
 
 
  Attachments ----------------
   electrolaptops_1965_0.jpg (17KB - 139 downloads)
   82aa_1_sbol.JPG (23KB - 133 downloads)
  |