Monitoring a room using video capturing equipment is fairly easy.
There is a wide variety of equipment on the market to accomplish
this. Listed below are some of the different types of equipment
used
to covertly capture video.
When choosing a hidden camera there are some things that need to
be
considered.
What Should It Look Like
Ask yourself where you are gong to put the hidden camera and which
hidden camera will fit in best. What room will it be placed?
Hidden
cameras are now built into many different household items
including
clock cameras, blue ray player hidden camera, AC adapter spy
camera,
fan hidden camera, and on and on. You can check out a large
selection of hidden
cameras
here.
Battery Powered or Outlet Powered
Most of the time it is better to use an AC outlet powered camera
so
that you do not need to worry about the batteries running low. In
some cases, however, this is not possible.
When a hidden camera is built into something that is normally AC
powered it will not require batteries. A DVD player hidden camera
for example.
Some hidden cameras would not look natural if they had a power
cord.
Some examples battery
powered
hidden cameras are the hook cameras, plant
cameras smoke alarm / detector hidden cameras.
When choosing the battery powered option be sure to check the
battery life. Make sure that it fits your needs.
Viewing and Video Storage
Most of the higher quality hidden cameras will record video to a
standard SD card, but some will record to built in memory. It is
my
opinion that recording to an SD card is a much easier option for
several reasons.
You can easily increase the recording
capacity by using a larger capacity SD card.
To view the video you can easily remove
the
SD card and view it on your computer. With built in memory
hidden cameras you would need to remove the hidden camera and
connect it to a computer to view the video.
A hidden camera that says that it is low light still needs some
light to capture a picture. You can tell how sensitive the camera
is
by the lux. rating. The lower the number in the lux. rating the
better the camera can see in low light conditions.
A night vision equipped hidden camera can see in complete
darkness.This is achieved by using infrared illumination. With
invisible IR the light emitted cannot be seen by the human eye but
a
black and white camera can see it. Most hidden cameras with night
vision use a color camera when there are good lighting
conditions and switches automatically to black and white when when
in darkness.
As you can see there are many things to consider when choosing a
hidden camera. Modern technology has come a long way in the last
decade making it easier and less expensive to obtain high quality
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