Anticipation is high

I'm still looking forward hopefully to the day when my Greg Dash Lofi-Fisheye camera arrives.

The swallows are back roosting in the eaves of our barn and I'm looking for a small, inconspicuous camera I can stick up close to their nest...

There's a hint from Greg that he is hoping to change the camera software to program it to take photos when it detects movement. As you saw in my earlier post on the Bushnell camera, this doesn't always solve things if you are trying to capture small movements in amongst a lot of big movements. But, it may help with taking pictures of swallows.

This also hints that the software in the camera can be changed. I'm a regular software Bodger, so I'm hoping that there's some sort of scripting language where I can program when and how the camera takes pictures...

No doubt, the reality will bring me down to earth, but we can live in hope.

The price is right...

I have seen the odd post suggesting that Greg Dash's Lofi-Fisheye camera is too expensive. You can buy the door viewer that the camera is based on for as little as £1.50 GBP ($2.25 USD or probably less in the USA) if you shop around and they think that makes £65 for the whole camera sound expensive.

We had a problem a while ago with something stealing eggs from our hen house. We needed a camera to record what was happening and see who or what was stealing the eggs - we had found smashed egg-shells some distance away, so knew it was some sort of animal or bird.

We borrowed a neighbour's Bushnell Trail Camera. As the hens were coming and going all the time, we thought that would be enough to trigger the movement sensor in the camera. But for a couple of days we had plenty of pictures of hens, but none of any theft, and still the eggs went missing. We had to adjust the camera settings to make sure it captured the small animal that was stealing the eggs, effectively turning it into a time-lapse camera. And, eventually we did capture a Carrion Crow flying off with an egg in its beak.

My point is that the Bushnell is another camera without an LCD screen, without a viewfinder, with a fixed focus and fixed focal length lens, and its price in the shops is over £200. In comparison with which, the Lofi-Fisheye seems remarkably cheap.

So, my view is that the right price for the camera is the price you are prepared to pay for its features...