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    Two male Grackles trying to outdo one another.

    Yeah, someone hot rodding away from the street corner that's about 125' away.
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    Two male Grackles trying to outdo one another.

    Captured with a IPC-T5842T-ZE while I continue to explore the possibilities of of using security cameras to capture birds around our house.
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    Looking for a setup to satisfy my wife's bird watching addiction

    Here's some video I captured today, nothing too spectacular, but I'm still in the prototype testing phase.
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    Looking for a setup to satisfy my wife's bird watching addiction

    Real simulated bird video :) Taken indoors, with rather modest lighting, camera settings on auto as far as I know.
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    Looking for a setup to satisfy my wife's bird watching addiction

    Here's one from the IPC-5842 Absolutely. You can manually focus it on the glass that covers the lens/camera... and with some fiddling it will even auto focus at very short distances... these were taken 4" away from the 5842 This is what the full frame looked like ( zoomed in as far as it...
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    Looking for a setup to satisfy my wife's bird watching addiction

    Well, I got my first IP Camera hooked up, doing some basic testing now. The 'auto' focus isn't really focusing that great, but with manual focus I'm liking the detail I can get from this
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    Looking for a setup to satisfy my wife's bird watching addiction

    I think I'm going all in with this... HP ProDesk 400 G7 SFF Desktop Computer (Refurbished)Intel Core i5 10th Gen 10400F 2.9GHz Processor; 32GB RAM; 2TB Solid State Drive; Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
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    Looking for a setup to satisfy my wife's bird watching addiction

    Yeah, well when I first started looking, I was looking at an NVR for around $700 and a Camera for $300 , so that's where I came up with $1000. Obviously if I can do it cheaper that's all good. I've been involved in computers and networking my entire adult life ( I mean like 38 years in my...
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    Looking for a setup to satisfy my wife's bird watching addiction

    Wow, that's very impressive. Can you give some further details on what equipment they are using?
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    Looking for a setup to satisfy my wife's bird watching addiction

    My wife bought some cheep bird feeder camera things a year or so ago , and she's become somewhat obsessed with it. She gets some decent pictures and video now and then and she's having fun however she's expressed interest in something better. She's not all that tech savvy and it can be...
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