Equipment

Cameras:

    Point and Shoot

•  Canon G2 (purchased from ebay)

•   Canon G3 (purchased from ebay)

•   Canon G5 (purchased from ebay)

    DSLR

• Canon 350D

• Canon 450D

  • Review http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos450d

• Canon 600D

  • http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos600D

Remote Control for Cameras

• Phottix Timer for Canon 450D

  • equivalent of the Canon TC-80N3 timer remote, but a lot cheaper (from ebay.com)

• For home-made equipment check out our web page timelapse

Movie Camera

• Otek DV5590i Camcorder - approximately 80 minutes of recording time unattended

  • CMOS 5.0 Mega pixels Sensor

  • Up to to 7.7 Mega pixels image playback by Interpolation

  • High Definition video recording 1080P - 1440 x 1080 resolution at 30 frames per second

  • 5 x Optical Zoom/ Up to 4 x Digital

  • 2.5" full colour TFT Screen (Swivel 360') 153,000 pixel

  • SD/MMC Card Slot, Support SDHC class 6 (8GB SD card Max) movie

Motion Detector Camera

• • Acorn 6210M  (CAMO) with audio

  • 30 second movie file of .HD-quality, .avi file type, 1440 x 1080, 15 frames/second

  • the non-wireless model

  • trigger time ~ 1.5 seconds

  • sensing range ~ 15 m

  • using Energizer  AA  Lithium batteries (from www.jaycar.com.au

  • Camera Report http://www.chasingame.com/index.php?id=252

  • http://www.ronburyswildlife.com/2012/08/ltl-acorn-6210-series-trail-camera-news.html

  • Purchased from http://www.trailcameras.com.au/ltl-6210mc.htm

Camouflage Hide 

• Purchased from http://www.manvswild.com.au/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=2 (but *no*  longer a valid web site)

• Try https://www.ridgelineclothing.com.au/hides or,

• search ebay.com.au for "camouflage hide"

Home-made Sound Recording Equipment

The Sooper Snooper in Electronics Australia, September 2001 (Errata: June 2002)

Sooper Snooper / Stethoscope Kit [ K175] from http://www.oatleyelectronics.com/ in Silicon Chip .

The Oatley Electronics kit includes PCB, all onboard components, 9V battery connector, electret microphone insert and Shure dynamic microphone insert, Parabolic Dish.

An old camera tripod was used to support the parabola and microphone.

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More Sound recording information on our web site Sound Recording of Lyrebirds