Post by pete11 on May 3, 2022 11:36:24 GMT
It's a Green Feathers wifi camera in their 'delux' nest box, with their LED daytime lamp fixed inside the roof of the box.
Instead of a DVR for recording, I use a raspberry pi - it records the camera video feed in 2 minute chunks so I end up with lots of little video files. I play these on my laptop using the player that comes with Windows. Whenever I see a nice image I pause the video player, move the slider around to find the sharpest frame, and then press ALT + Prt Sc on the keyboard, which takes a screenshot - then I paste that into Microsoft Paint and save it as a jpeg photo file.
The Green Feathers wifi camera is a bit blurry when there's a lot of movement going on - I have to be quite careful with the video player slider to find frames where everything's in focus and sharp.
For close-up shots I just select a smaller area of the video image on the screen, and save that as a jpeg photo. When it displays on this forum it automatically gets blown up in size, which is quite handy. Also seems to look best on a smartphone screen.