Hi Everyone,
Long time lurker here, and finally registered an account to share a recent camera install.
My parents have a beautiful mountain home on top of a mountain in the Blue Ridge mountains. They have had a Logitech Alert camera system since 2011 with 6 cameras that they installed in and around the house to catch wildlife and to keep an eye on things while they are not there. We have had bears, coyotes, bobcats, turkeys, owls, and countless other birds and critters. The one camera angle we never had was the view off of the back porch. So, for Christmas after doing some research I picked up a Bosch Dinion Starlight 8000 MP, along with a wide angle lens and a heated/ventilated outdoor enclosure. Two weeks ago we finally got around to installing it, and have been very pleased with the camera's performance. We don't really use it for video capture, but rather still images (at 2992 x 1680) that are uploaded automatically to a web server and Weather Underground to accompany a weather station I have up there (which is visible in the picture). Fortunately we have a very reliable DSL connection where we are located, but unfortunately the upload speed prevents us from doing any decent video sharing.
What sold me on the camera was its sensitivity to ultra low light situations, specifically this video and . My folks and I, while we enjoy the high resolution, clear daytime images, we are blown away by what we are able to see at night: moon rises, stars, the lights in the valley below, and the lights in the distant horizon from a major city about 40 miles away.
The camera (the wires, PoE and power for the enclosure, have since been cleanly routed and are out of sight):
The daytime view:
The nighttime view (infrared mode, stars visible):
Moon (light in foreground is the small infrared emitter on a Logitech Alert camera about 30 feet away):
Another Moon shot around 1am (light was so bright from the moon that the camera switched from nighttime mode to daytime mode):
Sunrise around 6:15am:
We've been very pleased with the camera. I am using BlueIris to take a snapshot once a minute, overlaying the time and temperature on the image, and uploading it to a web server for viewing directly and for Weather Underground. One of my near-term goals is to figure out how to automate taking a snapshot once a minute (or once every 30, or 15 seconds?) and stitching the images together to create a timelapse of the last 8-12 hours. My inspiration is from Dale Ireland's webpage where he had an automatic and rolling timelapse of his gorgeous view of the sound and mountains. I'm not sure how to do that just yet, so I am sure I will be asking some questions in another subforum soon!
Going forward, I have really enjoyed looking at the installation and camera capture subforums on this site, and may look at replacing some of the older Logitech cameras as they start to fail. I am still trying to learn how to best configure this camera which has some pretty complex settings and adjustments menus (I'm still very much a novice!), and using its onboard storage and video processing to start recording video.
I appreciate any comments about anything: the camera, installation, or better methods of managing my images and videos, or how I can make the timelapse!
Long time lurker here, and finally registered an account to share a recent camera install.
My parents have a beautiful mountain home on top of a mountain in the Blue Ridge mountains. They have had a Logitech Alert camera system since 2011 with 6 cameras that they installed in and around the house to catch wildlife and to keep an eye on things while they are not there. We have had bears, coyotes, bobcats, turkeys, owls, and countless other birds and critters. The one camera angle we never had was the view off of the back porch. So, for Christmas after doing some research I picked up a Bosch Dinion Starlight 8000 MP, along with a wide angle lens and a heated/ventilated outdoor enclosure. Two weeks ago we finally got around to installing it, and have been very pleased with the camera's performance. We don't really use it for video capture, but rather still images (at 2992 x 1680) that are uploaded automatically to a web server and Weather Underground to accompany a weather station I have up there (which is visible in the picture). Fortunately we have a very reliable DSL connection where we are located, but unfortunately the upload speed prevents us from doing any decent video sharing.
What sold me on the camera was its sensitivity to ultra low light situations, specifically this video and . My folks and I, while we enjoy the high resolution, clear daytime images, we are blown away by what we are able to see at night: moon rises, stars, the lights in the valley below, and the lights in the distant horizon from a major city about 40 miles away.
The camera (the wires, PoE and power for the enclosure, have since been cleanly routed and are out of sight):
The daytime view:
The nighttime view (infrared mode, stars visible):
Moon (light in foreground is the small infrared emitter on a Logitech Alert camera about 30 feet away):
Another Moon shot around 1am (light was so bright from the moon that the camera switched from nighttime mode to daytime mode):
Sunrise around 6:15am:
We've been very pleased with the camera. I am using BlueIris to take a snapshot once a minute, overlaying the time and temperature on the image, and uploading it to a web server for viewing directly and for Weather Underground. One of my near-term goals is to figure out how to automate taking a snapshot once a minute (or once every 30, or 15 seconds?) and stitching the images together to create a timelapse of the last 8-12 hours. My inspiration is from Dale Ireland's webpage where he had an automatic and rolling timelapse of his gorgeous view of the sound and mountains. I'm not sure how to do that just yet, so I am sure I will be asking some questions in another subforum soon!
Going forward, I have really enjoyed looking at the installation and camera capture subforums on this site, and may look at replacing some of the older Logitech cameras as they start to fail. I am still trying to learn how to best configure this camera which has some pretty complex settings and adjustments menus (I'm still very much a novice!), and using its onboard storage and video processing to start recording video.
I appreciate any comments about anything: the camera, installation, or better methods of managing my images and videos, or how I can make the timelapse!
