[Shop-talk] Exterior nighttime surveillance cameras?

[Scott]

My old office had night vision cameras. They were very, very expensive. 
Given that office manager's ability to spend way too much money and get 
virtually nothing, I'm not sure if they were good cameras. The vendor 
said they were the best, but he needed to keep telling the Emperor she 
had nice clothes.

Having said all that, you couldn't see jack on those cameras at night. 
You could see *shapes*, and maybe some detail if they were very close, 
but there's no way you could identify anything. Certainly not a license 
plate, even if it was still.

People here build brick mailboxes. A while back, someone went around 
pushing them over. I've seen a couple being rebuilt with poles in them. 
One was using what looked like a telephone pole, one used what looked 
like several chain-link fence poles, and there was an auger out there 
one day, so I assume they're sunk pretty deep.

I think if I had concerns, I'd find a telephone pole and sink it maybe 
six feet deep. It's real easy to identify a hoodlum as the ambulance is 
carrying them off and you can take their i.d. from their wallet after 
their pants are cut off them.

Scott
(Getting more and more curmudgeonly by the day, it seems)

On 7/31/2012 9:36 PM, Jim Franklin wrote:
> I'm interested in recording any movement such as kids driving by my mailbox
> with a baseball bat I mean seeing what wildlife comes through my yard at
> night. Ideally it would be motion sensor activated but with a very short
> delay, and quick recovery from headlights. Anything you use and like?