Post Free & Fast Playback Construction camera

Which Construction Camera? 24 hrs monitoring or Incident Investigation/Documentation after?

Some construction site cameras are operated live and others are only used to investigate or document an incident after the fact.  A live, monitored system appears far more effective but the question is –Do you really need to be the like of the movie–“enemy of the States” ? So there are more and more construction sites which look to implement their own system and monitor it themselves.  When you take this route, most of the time the cameras are mounted and left on to record.  The recorder is located inside a site trailer and the footage from the camera’s are mainly used after something happens.  It is then that the site supervisor has to spend time looking through video to try and figure out what happened.  Then the issues will be —how difficult of the videos Processing and Playback?

The Post Free video processing

 

The sweetest spot is the “Instant Video“

What is “Instant Video”?–Brinno Construction camera captures and
converts thousands of photos into a Time Lapse video instantly and automatically on the camera, No Laptop required

Benefits?

(1) Post Free ( No convertion, No stitching, No Post effects ( Deflickr…..)

(2) Fast Playback ( thin file)

(3) Sharable on site ( Facebook or Twitter right away)

(4) Quick Search by Brinno Player’s “motion search”

 

Fast Playback

The  most wanted feature from user feedbacks is the Fast Playback video on the spot.

One reminder: Try not to use your precious DSLR for the outdoors use like the job site

The Brinno Construction cameras offer choices of Mounts & Vari Focus Interchangeable LENS

The Wall Mount

The Straps

The best practice is —  20% of total Job site cameras are for Real Time monitoring and 80% for Construction Project management.

In terms of the “Specific Target Recording”. Here are some footages showing the true benefits of the Long Lasting Construction camera

The amazing Battery life—No need to replace the battery at job site

The “Pilling”

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Time lapse Settings_Howto unleash Brinno Construction camera

The Construction project is basically months or years long. The best part you can get yourself a long term battery, wide angle, low light and nearly “Post Free” camera.

In addition, The physical ways of attaching your construction have to be very flexible and versatile in terms of the complicated and changing characteristics at the construction job site.

The Brinno Construction camera bundle includes

The Brinno construction package has already covered up many aspects such as the

The Flat bottom of camera——–>stands by the camera itself, no extra accessories needed

Wall mount——————————>adhere to any wall by either screws or temporary double side tape

Rubber Straps————————–>attachable to anything

Or you can have the tough one—The Brinno garden mounting stake–Flexable Mounting Stake to us in the ground

Gorilla tripod (Brinno camera on the GorillaPod )

C type Clip—————–>good for portable application

The weather proof enclosure is also DC-IN available. ( Using Brinno camera with Eye Fi card?)

The hardware setup is supposed to be pretty strait forward. Now Howto timelapse settings? The timelapse settings link 

For example, Here we select

the “Recoding time” as “30”days

the Expect video length” as “30” mins

the “image quality” as “best”

the “Subject” as “Constructon”

This is what you have from this settings :

time interval: 60 mins. <19G space needed.

That means

You can have a 30 days construction project in 30 mins time lapse video if using time interval 1 min and a 32G SD card (>19G)

By inputting your parameters, You can actually have the “video length” and “file size” date which would be really helpful in you’re planning drop the camera at the job site for a long period of time. You will never have the insufficient space issue for the entire project.

Furthermore, If you are using together with the “motion sensor”for you job site security camera, You can actually make it “Over write” on the camera, So you can only keep the recent data for the unexpected

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5 features to look in your next Construction camera and howto WiFi?

5 features of the the construction job site:

1.Large area to be taken care ( large place and many stories)
2.Long period of project ( > 6 months )
3.Tough environments (Windy, Rainy, Dust)
4.Workers with thick gloves ( instead of Photographers) at the job site
5.Unstable grid power supply thus it better to be battery(or UPS) powered for important gears like cameras

It ain’t easy to perform the photo shooting under the harsh job site environment.

Wire Free is the key differentor

Currently it’s high cost subcontracting with photo firms in setting and taking the photos with the basic charges of 30,000-50,000.

Besides, Asking your job site workers to operate the DSLR for shooting long term time lapse video is not supposed to be a brilliant ideas. Why?

Thing about this: wearing thick gloves is hard to use the DSLR versatile tiny buttons, neither is previewing with your helmet atop to target your subject if not using the super wide angle lens.

Learned about the Barbie’s new Mar mission? It takes many outfits here, gloves, mask, helmet, cloths, heavy boots…so the photo shots are not the NASA’s assignments to Barbie

 Source: Mattel

Remember we (Construction men)  work in Mars everyday !!

Tougher, Easy to setup cameras for your next Construction cameras

Something Tougher( to survive) Easier (to set up) , Longer (in battery life) and even Low light enhancer is definitely your next Construction Camera top list.

A Super wide angle Point-of- View camera like Brinno TLC200  is supposed to be a wiser choice in terms of the harsh conditions at the construction job site.

And  the Low light shots capabilities (powerful Night shots) is essential

Quick comparison in night shots ( GoPro Hero 3 Black vs Brinno TLC200 Pro)

Choosing the right Dark Knight who makes the difference to protect your properties

Long term recording is always challenging because of the unstable power supply

Super wide angle is a must

The Brinno long last and Super low light wide angle construction camera:

What is Instant Video?

I was an IT engineer before. The camera setup or WiFi access was fine but the biggest nightmare was to locate a single frame from tens of thousands of videos hiding somewhere in tons of DV tapes

The Brinno cameras are equipped the “Instant video”—-Once your photos are shot, It’s already a time lapse videos—No file transferring, Video editting or post processsing

With Brinno Instant Video technology, once your video is shot, it’s actually a Time Lapse video  and not a series of JPEGs. No stitching, no converting!

Color preference? and Wifi maniac?

Going to the Mars with Barbie and the Pink camera ?

Special edition

Footages for reference:

The 100% DIY Wifi Construction camera will totally simplify all your Job site cameras setup and will make you documentary Post Processing Free!
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Winery foundation setup

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Solar panel construction

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Swimming Pool design & build ( via:Klapprodt Pools )

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Eye Fi card is at service now with Brinno TLC200

Watch out :It is Pro X2 , not Mobi

3 steps to WiFi:

1. DC IN thru Micro USB on Brinno TLC200 ( The Brinno Camea is said to live up to 78 days by batteries but insert your DC IN if using with Eye Fi card)
2. Download and Upgrade the latest Firmware from Brinno web site ( 1.02.3 or later for TLC200 and TLC200 f1.2 including BCC 100) (  version 1.01.4 or later for TLC200 Pro)
3. Set up the “timer” to specify your transmission period

More detailed info?