During the last few days of August when the squirrels were doing all kinds of things to get food, I wanted to make sure that I could get shots without putting an expensive camera outside, so I went on eBay and checked their wonderful product line… I eventually found what I was looking for, an old 8mm camcorder with the tape transport taken out. “Can’t play tapes, but still gives a video signal.” Well, that’s what I wanted in the first place - a camera that only fed video back and had some sort of LANC capability… and I got it - for $10. Now I had another camera for under $15 (with shipping) that I could use as a feed source, along with (surprising to me) a full LANC-compatible jack! I could use it for another angle! Just think of what I could do with three angles of the same shot! This day was only done to test the camera out, and it isn’t the first test of the “$10 camera” (it’s actually the 2nd), but it is a day that uses the camera exclusively for it’s feed - as you can see, the camera doesn’t like mics plugged into it, apparently, because the sound from the output is all crosstalk and radio signals - not exactly what I was going for, there… but, what are you going to expect with a $10 camera and a cheapo $5 computer mic… really!

 

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