What type of security camera is this?

[james8532 0]

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In these photos are movement sensors on the lower trees as well as two wireless cameras.

 

Are these government issued? Does anybody have any idea what type of cameras these are?

 

Thank you for any help.

 

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Edited February 20, 2012 by Guest

[Soundy 1]

Impossible to tell what sort of cameras they are, as the cameras are in housings... the first is a Videolarm housing, the second is a Pelco housing, but that really doesn't tell you anything. The Videolarm box is on a cheap plastic mount, though, and with the two different housings, and the sloppy wiring, it just smacks of something that someone slapped together out of spare parts.

[james8532 0]

Impossible to tell what sort of cameras they are, as the cameras are in housings... the first is a Videolarm housing, the second is a Pelco housing, but that really doesn't tell you anything. The Videolarm box is on a cheap plastic mount, though, and with the two different housings, and the sloppy wiring, it just smacks of something that someone slapped together out of spare parts.

 

Thank you Soundy. So definitely not Government issued?

[Birdman Adam 0]

I would highly doubt it... Pretty sloppy work really!

 

On another note, where is the power coming in for these cameras??? I see what looks like a wireless transmitter, but I didn't see any power lines going down the tree... Maybe you can follow the lines?

 

I'm always curious when I find stuff like that in the woods. Is that on your property? Is it watching your home or something? Wierd...

[james8532 0]

I would highly doubt it... Pretty sloppy work really!

 

On another note, where is the power coming in for these cameras??? I see what looks like a wireless transmitter, but I didn't see any power lines going down the tree... Maybe you can follow the lines?

 

I'm always curious when I find stuff like that in the woods. Is that on your property? Is it watching your home or something? Wierd...

 

Birdman,

 

It's a house very secluded in our neighborhood that has been abandoned for along time.

 

[mod edit: extraneous pictures remove to save bandwidth - this isn't a real estate forum]

[james8532 0]

Birdman,

 

I am also curious how they get power too cause I didn't see any power cords at all. That was it.

[Soundy 1]

If the house is abandoned, how is the porch light on? You'd think the electricity would have been cut off...

 

Anyway, highly doubtful they're government cameras... I'd tend to suspect, if they're on the road to the house or anywhere near they house, they're something installed by previous residents to warn of anyone approaching.

 

BTW, you should resize your pictures to something smaller - they're huge (both in resolution and in filesize) and with the number of them, my poor little netbook has problems displaying this page. And we really don't need 10 pictures of the house.

[jtetterton 0]

That is a very cool house.. And I could go crazy with my man cave in that huge garage! Someone obviously has some dealing with the house since every door has a sign posted.

 

Jason

[ljarrald 0]

that house doesn't look very abandoned. but someone is keeping an eye on it...

 

either:

A: squatters are in the house and setup that system to help protect themselves

 

B: someone if being nosey and wants to know who visits the place and when. this could be out of interest, or because someone wants to move into it as a squatter, or other scary reasons.

 

C: someone owns the house and is fed up with people going up to it.

 

D,E,F,G,etc... lots of other possibilities.

 

BUT. one thing is pretty much for sure, there will be a receiver in the house. looks like the house has power. it must have a phone line. which means internet... there will probably be a cheap DVR in there somewhere (probably hidden) for someone to remotely log into. that beam detector on the drive would suggest they get an email when someone drives their car into the drive.

 

why does it matter if its government issued though?

abandoned building in a remote location + someone worried about government surveillance = suspicion

[ljarrald 0]

sorry soundy and jtetterton. i din't see your posts. you must of made them as i was typing.

[Soundy 1]

Okay, I'm not coming in this thread anymore until those pictures are made a reasonable size... every time one loads, the screen jumps, and I lose what I was reading.

[james8532 0]

that house doesn't look very abandoned. but someone is keeping an eye on it...

 

either:

A: squatters are in the house and setup that system to help protect themselves

 

B: someone if being nosey and wants to know who visits the place and when. this could be out of interest, or because someone wants to move into it as a squatter, or other scary reasons.

 

C: someone owns the house and is fed up with people going up to it.

 

D,E,F,G,etc... lots of other possibilities.

 

BUT. one thing is pretty much for sure, there will be a receiver in the house. looks like the house has power. it must have a phone line. which means internet... there will probably be a cheap DVR in there somewhere (probably hidden) for someone to remotely log into. that beam detector on the drive would suggest they get an email when someone drives their car into the drive.

 

why does it matter if its government issued though?

abandoned building in a remote location + someone worried about government surveillance = suspicion

 

ljarrald,

 

Yup, there was a Direct TV antenna on the roof. Assuming they would be using that for Internet.

 

http://f.cl.ly/items/0L0S3F2E1H3B0i0o1q1r/DTV.jpg

 

Edited February 20, 2012 by Guest

[james8532 0]

Okay, I'm not coming in this thread anymore until those pictures are made a reasonable size... every time one loads, the screen jumps, and I lose what I was reading.

 

Soundy,

 

The photos will remain unaltered from their original copy. I want people to see high definition photographs of what the thread is talking about.

 

If this is a problem for you please leave the thread.

 

Thank you

[Birdman Adam 0]

Very interesting:

 

 

Someone (probably home owner or similar) is really going out of their way to advertise the protection. Also, nice home.

 

Must be many nice things in there. Its just funny that they have advertised it sooo much! These sorts of things always intrigue me!

[rory 0]

No power to the cameras so doubt they are even working.

Probably just dummy cameras at this point.

[rory 0]

those other things are photobeams

[james8532 0]

those other things are photobeams

 

Very cool. Thank you

[jtetterton 0]

Okay, I'm not coming in this thread anymore until those pictures are made a reasonable size... every time one loads, the screen jumps, and I lose what I was reading.

 

 

That's really odd, they loaded fine for me.. Must be your internet connection loading them slowly.

[rory 0]

Okay, I'm not coming in this thread anymore until those pictures are made a reasonable size... every time one loads, the screen jumps, and I lose what I was reading.

 

 

That's really odd, they loaded fine for me.. Must be your internet connection loading them slowly.

Atom netbook, it does the same on mine.

Cant handle all those huge images at once.

[ljarrald 0]

i'm slightly suspicious.

 

- why are you so curious about these cameras? (especially if the property is nothing to do with you)

 

- why did you seem worried about them being government issued?

 

- why do you have so many pictures of this house?

[ljarrald 0]

Okay, I'm not coming in this thread anymore until those pictures are made a reasonable size... every time one loads, the screen jumps, and I lose what I was reading.

 

 

That's really odd, they loaded fine for me.. Must be your internet connection loading them slowly.

Atom netbook, it does the same on mine.

Cant handle all those huge images at once.

 

intel laptop.

works but it is V annoying! why can't you link to HD images but embed low res versions?

 

also...

grrr. in the time it takes me to make one post, 5 other posts have been made.

[jtetterton 0]

I totally understand his interest in the house. I also enjoy exploring and photographing things like this. I've photographed truly abandoned places before, not places clearly marked like this one... Someone doesn't want people there, for one reason or another... If it was posted at the driveway as clearly as it is posted at the house, then I too, would question why so many pics

[Soundy 1]

Okay, I'm not coming in this thread anymore until those pictures are made a reasonable size... every time one loads, the screen jumps, and I lose what I was reading.

 

Soundy,

 

The photos will remain unaltered from their original copy. I want people to see high definition photographs of what the thread is talking about.

Why? Everyone can see what they are at the displayed size just fine. Full-res versions don't give any better idea of what cameras are inside the housings.

 

If this is a problem for you please leave the thread.

And if everyone else is having the same problem, then everyone else will leave the thread, and there will be nobody left to answer your questions. Kinda defeats the purpose, no? And I see that I'm NOT the only one who finds them annoying.

 

But okay... it's not JUST my problem. As you may have noticed, the board auto-imported all of your links and then hosted the full-size images from the board account... that's about 4.5MB per image, times 19 images, or 85MB that a person has to download to their computer just to view the first page of this thread - that's going to be slow on just about anyone's connection.

 

Now multiply that by the number of times the thread is viewed (58 so far)... that's FIVE GIGABYTES just to display your images, in less than six hours, all on THIS system's dime. I don't know what kind of hosting plan this board is on, but at this rate it's probably going to be hitting a cap really quick.

 

Then if someone quotes an embedded picture, it's downloaded again. If I hit reply, it goes to a new page, and ALL the pictures are downloaded again.

 

It would be a simple matter for you to embed smaller images (even just re-compressing them at a lower quality level at the same resolution would greatly reduce the file size), but no, you have to be selfish, don't you?

 

But hey, problem solved: I removed the board-hosted embedded images from the posts - if someone wants to look at your pictures, they can just use your links and eat up YOUR hosting bandwidth.

 

If you want to post embedded pictures, RESIZE AND/OR RECOMPRESS THEM FIRST to a manageable file size. And be reasonable with the photos you select to post - TEN PHOTOS of the house are IRRELEVANT to identifying the cameras. What the house looks like has NOTHING TO DO with anyone being able to tell you type of cameras or their purpose.

 

By the way, this is NOT a request.

[Soundy 1]

I totally understand his interest in the house. I also enjoy exploring and photographing things like this.

It's a gorgeous house. I'm a photography nut as well and like photographing all kinds of things.

 

TEN photos of the house have nothing to do with the purpose of this thread though - hell, he's only got NINE photos posted of the cameras and sensors. One would have been more than sufficient... and there's absolutely no need for THAT to be full resolution either.

[shockwave199 0]

Yaaa- I'm glad this went to page two- I wouldn't open up the first page again for anything and I have high speed cable. Way outa control- no need for that. And I got a bit miffed thinking we couldn't image link anymore here either because of that.