I am curious has anyone taken a micro camera from a smartphone and made an in cab camera?
I'm asking because my club is wanting to make some cab view videos and running a gopro is non realistic and no one has one anyway...
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Anyone have an older iPhone? Just build one of these
http://www.minutemanscalemodels.com/product-p/810.htm
Fits a 4 or 4S. No mod to the phone. It'll also find every close clearance spot on the layout - I really do need to post my video of it rolling into a river after a raised bit of the grade crossing caught the underside.
To use the camera out of a phone would require someone to build the supporting electronics. There are many small cameras available for this kind of use ready to go.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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If you can settle for a camera not actually in the (diesel, I presume) cab, there are a number of cameras like the one below that you can put on a flat car and push with your loco. I don't have the one below but have a $11 or so version from China (via EBay) that looks very similar. It was fun, but I've only used it once. It is a bit quirky, not great, so if you want to go this direction google for prior threads on the subject for folks' experience with given models.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS759US759&ei=WJVoWp3IIor-jwS1xaOQAg&q=site%3Acs.trains.com+video+cam&oq=site%3Acs.trains.com+video+cam&gs_l=psy-ab.3...2153.7061.0.9331.10.10.0.0.0.0.178.1031.8j2.10.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.6v3jgV9Crcs
https://www.amazon.com/Aufikr-Portable-Detection-Security-Surveillance/dp/B076GX486C/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1516803055&sr=8-6&keywords=small+video+camera
EDIT: If you want to see an $11 (plus SD card) result, here is my layout tour. Just for fun.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Dont forgt some baby monitors will work
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An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
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Mel, your car looks like a pretty sophisticated piece of equipment! Have you had success getting the camera to turn, etc., as you planned?
I must have missed any up-dates you have done, and testing.
Mike.
My You Tube
Search Amazon for Vehicle backup monitors / cameras.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I have a GoPro and I have tried it. It is to wide to fit on a flatcar without a lot of overhang. That might be fine on some layouts but on mine it bumps into scenery and oncoming trains. I used to have a cheapo made in China wireless camera that was very small but it died after only a few uses. It was small enough to go inside a locomotive if you cut a big hole in the front but the picture was not very good anyway. That was over ten years ago. It was not HD. If you search for spy cameras you can probably find something similar that is HD because old fashion TV is really old and out of date now and HD hardware is mass produced now.
mbinsewi Mel, your car looks like a pretty sophisticated piece of equipment! Have you had success getting the camera to turn, etc., as you planned? I must have missed any up-dates you have done, and testing. Mike.