Car PC Cam

[dettlej]

So I was in staples today and saw a pretty slick webcam from logitech. I got excited at the possibilities and decided to buy. That means ripping the car apart again and running more usb cables. I mounted the cam on the rear view mirror for now and a pin hole mic next to the ebrake. When I get bored with it there I will use it as a rear view camera or facing the drivers seat (new alarm can activate and start recording audio/visual when the alarm is tripped.. supposedly)

Quality sucks, but I guess I need to dial in all the settings, especially for night.

Oh ya, and FYI, i shut down at 80 as I am getting uncomfortable running any faster on the streets.

1Mb avi file

[MrCleanY0]

Your car sounds badass. Maybe it's just the camera placement, I don't know. That wasn' too bad of a picture at all though. Nice vid.

[NoRemorse]

This is what you do for night visibility....

Remove the lens from the cam. Remove the IR filter. This will allow the CCD/CMOS to receive IR light as well as visible light. It will make the colors a bit off, but vision in night will be much improved, and if you install IR lights, it works as night vision.

[XeroState]

I think that is pretty good quality considering how quickly the image was moving infront of it...I mean some webcam's if you smile it looks bad...lol

[dettlej]

Thats not a bad idea, I think I might try this. But we'll see, I think with some adjustments the software can render much better.

And its just the mic placment, car is stock. I thought the same thing first time I watched this, sounds sick!

Originally Posted by NoRemorse

This is what you do for night visibility....

Remove the lens from the cam. Remove the IR filter. This will allow the CCD/CMOS to receive IR light as well as visible light. It will make the colors a bit off, but vision in night will be much improved, and if you install IR lights, it works as night vision.

[raptors_67]

Depending on camera type, there may not be a removable IR filter. Check the manual, the processor may have dipswitch settings to turn on Backlight Compensation which isnt always enabled by default. This will help in dim settings, I would recommend trying this before removing the filter (It is sometimes incorporated right into the lens).
Not even dSLRs have it in the lense/CCD/CMOS, they all have a piece of IR filter glass, that my be molded into some paltic, but still easy to remove. On one of my webcams, I had to cut part of the 'lens' assembly apart, but the lens itself was fine, and even still allows me to focus.