QUOTE: Originally posted by cjtruax I don't want this to sound like a commercial so please do not take it that way.
QUOTE: Originally posted by cjtruax A lot of the camera systems on eBay may not be 1st run, top quality systems.
QUOTE: Originally posted by cjtruax ...and we are an American company.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Kyle S. What type of camera are you guys using? The image quality is great and you seem to get very little interference. I also like the sound FX you put underneath.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Governor Bit late in replying, sorry. The camera is a £30 ($50?) eBay job.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Kyle S. £30? It's a PAL camera than, is see. These extra 100 lines of resolution do make a difference compared to NTSC. I take it that you are running the camera with batteries, since you don't seem to get any track power dropouts?
QUOTE: Originally posted by Governor I suppose it must be PAL as it runs straight into the laptop with a Belkin USB VideoBus II (Analogue to digital convertor?).
QUOTE: Originally posted by Governor What it looks like is of no concern to me as it's the only thing the camera can't look at.[:D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley I'm building subways, and I'm really agonizing about the lighting. For now, it looks like my walls will be styrene sheet rolled over with a thick hydrocal mixture with a paint roller, then sprayed with gray primer. That gives me walls with some texture and structure, but not much weight.
Dan
QUOTE: Originally posted by selector A noticeably different effect, but I hesitate to call it an improvement...perhaps we should see more? [:D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley Try making the rotating platform longer towards the back of the car, and putting the camera back further. This will exaggerate the rotation of the truck. I think it should be light enough, but you may have to counterweight the front end of the platform a bit. The battery might have to come back a bit, too. When I looked at the video, it looked like the camera was pointing off to the right of the truck's direction. Is the stiffness of the power wires keeping the camera from turning smoothly?
QUOTE: Originally posted by mcouvillion ...I use the RF Sysems Lab TC-9 color pinhole video camera... Mark C.
QUOTE: Originally posted by mcouvillion Kyle, Oh, another thing. The TC-9 camera is about 2/3 rds the size of a die (dice) and the wires all come out the back of the camera, making it easy to install in tight places, i.e., the hood or cab of a locomotive.... Mark C.
QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley Has anyone played with a fiber-optic front-end ahead of the camera? They use these things for medical applications. (Amazing, but uncomfortable from my perspective.) You would probably lose a lot of the advantages of that nice camera, but it would allow you to much more easily get the engineer's side-of-the-boiler view out of big steam.