Re: Bullet proof camera?

nick hull wrote:
I use a 'game camera" as a security camera at the gate to my farm. After having one stolen, I mounted the next in a locked steel box up on a pole. Worked great until opening day of hunting season, when someone shot the camera thru the (relatively) small hole left for the flash, lens, IR detector etc. Now I see I need to make it reasonably bullet proof, presumably 22lr bulletproof, from at least ONE direction.

How about wireless sending the picture to your home computer?
Then you could email pics of the criminals to the police while they are still nearby.
A little felony like willful destruction of private property aggravated by unlawful firearm use ought to cost them any further access to firearms.
A 1/2" piece of Lexan would stop the bullets, but would also probably block the IR sensor that triggers the camera - a flimsy plastic freznel lens. Lexan might also cause problems with the flash, especially if I go to IR flash for stealth mode.

A mirror also seems to have possibilities, the camera could be 100% bulletproof and the (cheap, replaceable) mirror would shatter. Again I would expect problems with the IR trigger, can I get the IR trigger to work with a mirror?
Might work. A first-surface mirror would work fine and should be good for IR too.
It reverses the image, but you can flip it with the computer.

Jon
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