Posted by Nige on 09/23/37 11:43

Colin Wilson wrote:
> Someone I know is having a few problems with not-so-local-anymore
> scrotes coming back to where they used to live and either causing
> damage to cars, trying to kick their door in, or as happened last
> night, dragged them into the street and gave them a good kicking.
>
> Unfortunately, the house is in a terrace with no front garden, and the
> chance of "hiding" a camera or two are NIL unless its the small square
> ones - i`m thinking they could be hidden in a flower arrangement in
> the window (preferably a pinhole as it would be harder to spot the
> glass lens). I strongly suspect any external camera would be damaged
> beyond repair very quickly...
>
> Can anyone advise whether a 0.5 lux camera would be enough to capture
> a half-decent image under normal street lighting conditions ?
>
> Would this be of a sufficiently high image quality to be used as
> evidence ? (they`re skint, and i`m not in a position to help them at
> the moment)
>
> http://www.cctv-centre.co.uk/cctv/pro110p.htm
>
> I know there "may" be implications under the data protection act, but
> safety is a higher priority - they`ve been threatened at knifepoint
> before by the same people.
>
> The police ?
>
> "can`t help you, no evidence..."
> "what about these two witnesses ?"
> ...repeat as above
> "you've already got on record that i've been threatened at knifepoint"
> ...repeat as above

0.5 lux is not going to give good enough results. You need an IR camera. The only thing is they are not
covert. Get a good covert & use it to show the scum you have cctv. Then get a IR lamp & 'light' the scene
properly at night & use a camera that would fit in place of a door peephole. VERY effective.

Nige


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