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What can I do with an old(broken-ish) digital camera?

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Blanka:
Turn it into a cat-cam  ;D

Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: shmokes on April 28, 2009, 01:58:25 pm ---I'm under the impression that that is your camera's current status anyway.

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Yeah, I want ti make a science experiment out of it.  The infrared modification looks like it would be a very short lived experiment though.


--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 28, 2009, 02:00:12 pm ---You can record 30 second clips but can you output a real time feed to a monitor with it?  A lot of those cameras, if connected to a monitor in record mode, can act like a webcam.

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Not this one.  I lost the instructions, but I think they said it can only take 30 seconds because it saves to its internal memory card first before transferring the movie to an inserted card.  Which is why it wouldn't take longer movies with larger cards.


The cat-cam wouldn't work out either, since it's only 30 seconds, ...and I don't have a cat. 

I think I'm going to open it up and if it looks like the guts will fit into (on top of) a slot car I'll modify one of my cars to have an onboard camera.

30 seconds is about three laps.  If I set it to 160x120 I can capture 60 seconds with it.

shmokes:
It takes 30-seconds of video, but move the camera around at a fast pace and look at what it does to your video.  Completely unusable.  It won't capture anything but an indistinguishable blur on a slot car.

ChadTower:

You load an older 3.5mp camera onto a slot car and it might not move at all.  I don't think speed will be a problem.   ;D

Dartful Dodger:
You guys are bringing me down.

I've seen slot car POV videos and assumed I could do that with my road and rail track from the 60s.  But those guys were probably using cameras that were bought for that, and not cameras that were one step away from a land fill.

It'd have been funny to get footage showing a car being hit by a train from the car's point of view.

You're both right though.  I have an HO track and a couple of truck & trailers from the 80s.  I figured I could mount the camera to the chassis and put the guts of the camera on the trailer, but I think that'll be too heavy to pull.  Even if it could pull all that weight, with all the turns the video is going to look like butt.

The road and rail track is just on a sheet of plywood, I have a train set above my parent's garage that has scenery on it, I might be able to mount the camera to a train where it'll be less jolting and adjust the speed so that it doesn't blur as much.

And an accident from the train's POV on my R&R track will be less impressive but might still be entertaining.

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