When you’re ready to view your photos, just pop out the card or connect the device via USB cable to your PC. The camera can be used as a Web cam too, recording up to 30 frames per second directly to your computer.
, the camera takes shots whenever the motion detector is tripped, recording up to 30,000 images to a 1GB SD card (not included).
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No, it’s not very attractive; it’s designed to look like a real alarm PIR (passive infra-red) device. Which makes sense because you really don’t want to draw a lot of attention to the camera. What it is though, is inexpensive: Just $199.
Swann Digital Private Eye [product site]
PS~Sorry if this post gets Hall & Oates’ “Private Eyes” stuck in your head. Don’t blame me, I didn’t name the thing. But I did post the video, so you can blame me for that.
ITEX in Wellington NZ have tested this device, the documentation and blurb is incorrect, while you can use up to a 1GB SD Memory Card as stated – the system takes up to only 10,000 images with a valid file naming convention then starts to use reserved characters that are incompatible with Windows – this happens at about the 700MB mark, also once the card is full you need to move all images to a PC for archival or delete them because it will not automatically start overwriting files – like a loop tape security system would. This would make the product far more useful – as you would only need to worry about removing the memory card to get the images off after a security incident instead of all the time to make sure the card isnt full!
Great idea for a product, and reasonably good images for the price – but the drawbacks mentioned make it somewhat tedious!