Best Aquarium Webcam

shaywood

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Any suggestions for the best webcam to put on my reef tank. Some that I have tried flicker a lot with the lights.
 
I use the Nest Cam about 6 feet away from my 210 DT, the video is hi-res enough that I keep it displayed on a 42inch led TV hanging on the wall in my office at work and it looks great!
 
A lot of people like to use foscam. I use a dropcam (nest cam) it's ok, easy to use. Foscam has better resolution and can be integrated into other tools
 
I tried the Foscam and found it very difficult to setup. Bell and Howell makes one that was easy to setup and run from my Iphone.
 
I also use a 19831 but I have it right next to the tank - it would be nice to have something with a shorter focus range and a greater depth of field at close range.
 
Drop cam is so easy to set up but my problem is they are much too wide angle.
Foscam i found to have a narrower field of view and it has optical zoom and panning which is nice. I wish drop cam would offer more options and features. Foscam is never an easy setup for me, even the ones that are supposed to be plug n play.
 
I use the D Link 5020L it is high def, wifi, pan, tilt, sound motion detection, and night vision. I can log in on any computer and also have the app on my phone.
I mount it on a cheap $20 Walmart tripod and can pan and tilt to monitor both my Reefer 450 and my sump.
 
If you want the best you need to look at the Canon, Sony or Axis. But they all deal with the blue lighting of our reef tanks differently. I had an older Axis that did great with the white balance. I bought a newer one, better picture quality but the white balance isn't quite as good.

You can check out my Axis at www.o2manyfish.com/camera.htm -- Lights are on from 5pm to 1am Pacific time, on the weekends the lights come on around lunchtime,

Dave B
 
subscribing, in for ideas for the future!

o2many, those axis cams are amazing, but I could buy a whole frigging lot of coral for the prices of some of their cams.
 
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