Tow Cam
Submitted by tailor marc on Wed, 2011-07-06 11:41
After getting some killa footage from under the boat off dampier etc one thing tht we would love is to see the fish striking and chasing the lures.
Anyone had much to do with this...... http://www.towcam.com.au/
Some of that footage is really good! Makes you wonder how many fish come up for a look at your lure when trolloing etc
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Mitch300491
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Would be great fun to have...
Would be great fun to have... but i wont be spending that kind of money on it any time soon lol
dodgy
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Yeah.One of the boats I fish
Yeah.
One of the boats I fish on has that set up with a 2 way switch and a go pro on the hardtop as well. Skipper can immediately switch from underwater cam to cockpit cam at the push of a button. All recorded onto a Hard drive and displayed on its own stand alone monitor.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
glastronomic
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We had a play today with one
We had a play today with one of my contraptions and it is astonishing to be able to see what is happening underwater!
The set up is not hard to do and not that expensive either.
Full HD,12v tv with record mode , remote control is less than $300, and a (swing)bracket is easy to make due to the light weight of the screen.
Then adding a marine antenna with booster (12V) and you can watch TV as well as recording from whatever camera you want to deploy.
I am waiting for the video switch unit to arrive and it will be all complete.
Added bonus is with a IR camera you can have another pair of eyes through the camera on the TV to see where you are going at night, front and back!
While during the day they can record the "mayhem" when a fish is being battled with on deck and underwater!
fishy fingers
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Not realy
Added bonus is with a IR camera you can have another pair of eyes through the camera on the TV to see where you are going at night, front and back!
Well in theory yes but in reality No...most ir cameras (with the ir led's) have a very limited range of about 3 to 5 metres (unless you have a true ir camera which wont do you any good during daylight)
and given there will be nothing for the ir to bounce off apart from water it wont do you any good apart from
navigating marinas but even then very limited. cctv cameras are my buisness and unless you pay a lot of money
for a seperate ir illuminator they are next to useless.
Also if you use a camera that dosent have ir leds it may have built in ir filter which will make an illuminator null and void.
glastronomic
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well we will see how it pans
well we will see how it pans out with some spotties right next to them.
Not realy fussed about the nightvission aspect but realy apreciate your input of not expecting to much.
We had a great time today looking what is on the bottom while we were floating above it.
We sometimes did see our lines, sinkers and even the fish chasing our baits plus fish inspecting the camera.
fishy fingers
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If you do need night vision
you can always buy a day/night camera they work in as little as .001 lux or more (or should i say less) and if you use spotties they will be much better
glastronomic
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One of the camera's I use has
One of the camera's I use has a rating of 0.05Lux and an image sensor of 1/3" CCD Signal/Noice 45DeciBel.
It is all a bit of fun to try to record some above and below decks action
Thank you for your professional input on the subject