Camera

[R360]

Hi chaps

Looking for some advice, I want to setup a camera outside my house to record my drive; can anyone offer any insight as to how I can go about doing this?
I don’t want to have a huge CCTV type camera, I want something that is small and discrete, it needs to be able to record in the dark as that’s really the only time my car is on the drive. The recording quality does not need to be DVD type, just good enough to be able to make out someone if anything ever happens to my car.
I have only just started to look into this so any advice would be much appreciated…

Thanks

[Meeja]

Loads of discreet stuff on the market - including the type of cameras enclosed in "domes" that look very unobtrusive.

Depends on what budget you have as to what kit would be suitable.

[NiceCupOfTea]

If you want something just to show that somebody has been sniffing around, it should be quite easy. If you want something where you can identify somebody and use as evidence for police/in court you will need to be spending a lot of money I think...

[R360]

I think i just want something to show that someone has been sniffin' around. As for budgets i dont really know yet, where would lets say 100 - 150 squid get? Or am i miles out and need to be spending twice that?
Would the footage be recorded if so i dont really fancy having to get loads of tapes, would it be possible to record to a hard drive and then somehow set up a system that the footage is saved for x amount of days and then recorded over again?
Like i said i still need to give this a lot of thought

Edited by R360 on Monday 11th August 10:43

[Stamp]

I'm sure a pro will be round shortly, and there was a thread about this just the other day.
IIR, what you need it an infared camera with motion sensor and a HDD recorder.
You will be scraping the bottom with £150 but you could do it.