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    Hi guys. I'm looking for sugestions on ways to hide a small pinhole type camera outside on a wall. An electrical junction box is the obvious answer,what about other ideas. Fire away.



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    Vent, speaker grill, siren box, hole in the wall, tree, pot plant, rock, fence post, neighbors dogs bum. Any number of these will work fine. Just don't expect a fantastic image. Pinhole cameras have woeful image quality that gets far worse at night.

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    What is the target? Driveway, front door, yard etc...

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    Target is school children doing ilegal things in a particular spot. Cameras to be hidden, 1 behind vent and other on building wall at about 2.5 M high. No need to see at night so just after really clever ideas.

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    From my experience if you mount a pinhole camera IN anything , you will spend the next seven days trying to align it for what you want to see & upon failing in that task you will slash your wrists.

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    Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious here, but if you're recording schoolchildren, there could be a whole lot of other issues trickier than what sort of camera to use. Make sure you're on top of them!

    Don't know enough about the assignment, but from a surveillance perspective, you may find it easier to install a 'proper' camera in or on a nearby building or vehicle which will be of more evidentiary use. If they're schoolkids, I assume there is a limited timeframe e.g. a couple of hours after school each day, so it shouldn't be too hard to move something into position and then extract it later.

    You're welcome to PM me in-confidence.

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    Totally agree about a proper camera and did suggest it. Would be easier than the hours and headaches with the hidden stuff. Thanks for the PM offer.

    Whats your experience with baluns each end of cat5. I get good pictures on my test monitor at camera but crap back at DVR monitor. Do they degrade the signal? I have always used coax before. I'm also just the poor old contractor so get lumbered with these jobs.

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    With decent UTP baluns, the image should be no different to coax. If you're getting poor quality images on the DVR but good on your test monitor, I'd be looking at the possibility of a ground loop issue. As battery operated test monitor is completely isolated from the mains, the ground loop wont cause interference.
    Last edited by Drift; 31-03-11 at 07:26 PM.

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