Glidemet

4 responses to “Paging HusBos”

1. Toby Posted on Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 5:01 pm Permalink

   Afraid the webcam goes out of focus when it gets warm, so not much we can do about it in this heat

   Its an old axis 2100 model, and only designed for indoor use.

   If anyone can recommend a better ( but not madly priced..) ip camera, then we might be able to get it changed out, or at least make the next one to be installed a better model..

   Hopefully the 2nd cam, pointing about 160 degrees the other direction will get installed at some point this season too…

   regards,
    Toby

2. Toby Posted on Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 5:06 pm Permalink

   Incidentally,
   if other clubs would like to let me know what model ip/webcam they use, that would be a great help too.

   Toby

3. Glidemet Posted on Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 6:08 pm Permalink

   Thanks for letting us know Tony! I wonder what happens—perhaps the lens expands?

   One good weather-webcam is the Thatcham cam. That’s a D-Link DCS-2120. As far as I know any good-quality CCD IPcam will kick the pants of a “desktop” webcam, which tend to use CMOS sensors (less exposure latitude, paramount for exposing the sky) and tend not to focus well beyond 3 m (designed for desktop use).

   Worcester Weather is another excellent cam and the owner uses the neat technique of connecting an old ebay-sourced Sony Digital 8 camcorder to a computer via Firewire.

   However the Logitech Pro 5000 cameras, only £30 on amazon.co.uk, produce very good images for desktop units—see Tonbridge Weather and Hebridies Weather (Isle of Lewis) for examples of sites using these cameras. Image Salsa is good software to use.

   Think I’ll turn this into a post when I have some more time.

4. hrf Posted on Friday 19 September 2008 at 2:19 pm Permalink

   Hi
   I am trialling a Canon VC-C3 at North Hill in East Devon
   http://dsgc.dyndns.org:8080/
   The camera can be manually controlled. Pan ±90° Tilt ±45° Zoom x10
   It currently uses a PC to be a video capture webserver (with possbible weather station additions later)
   A gallery takes snaps every 10 minutes (settable)

   The system costs about £70 depedning on the source of the Canon VC-C3

   I might also have available later this year a Canon VB-101 two port video server for PTZ cameras with a VC-C3.

   And a tip from our previous camera, Anything with Linksys on it might be flaky at best.

   Henry (DSGC, North Hill)