Looking for ideas for a housing or enclosure for a Z4 cam or equivalent laying on the ground.
Please see images, 01 road looking East and 02 road looking West. Made these with an iPhone 14 Pro max at 3X zoom. They roughly approximate the FOV, except the actual cam would be a much narrower FOV.
The ground there is elevated approximately five feet above the road, so a good height for purpose. There is no landscaping or built feature where the cams could go, except adjacent to existing tree trunks.
Am thinking of something like a shoe-box laying on the ground or on a couple off bricks, right next to a tree trunk so the cam does not stand out on otherwise featureless ground.
Recently I got T54IR-ZE cams mounted on driveway gate posts. Even fully zoomed in, they serve mostly as overview cams because of distance and angles to road.
To pick up detail, I need to get closer and at a more acute angle to the road, so want to try a Z4.
Hence the question on how to get a zoom cam out there on the ground without it being conspicuous.
Edit:
The responses below have inspired an idea that fits the circumstances/environment - a "fake log".
Since the settings is woods, we have good-sized branches falling now and then.
A "fallen log" would blend right in.
Please see images, 01 road looking East and 02 road looking West. Made these with an iPhone 14 Pro max at 3X zoom. They roughly approximate the FOV, except the actual cam would be a much narrower FOV.
The ground there is elevated approximately five feet above the road, so a good height for purpose. There is no landscaping or built feature where the cams could go, except adjacent to existing tree trunks.
Am thinking of something like a shoe-box laying on the ground or on a couple off bricks, right next to a tree trunk so the cam does not stand out on otherwise featureless ground.
Recently I got T54IR-ZE cams mounted on driveway gate posts. Even fully zoomed in, they serve mostly as overview cams because of distance and angles to road.
To pick up detail, I need to get closer and at a more acute angle to the road, so want to try a Z4.
Hence the question on how to get a zoom cam out there on the ground without it being conspicuous.
Edit:
The responses below have inspired an idea that fits the circumstances/environment - a "fake log".
Since the settings is woods, we have good-sized branches falling now and then.
A "fallen log" would blend right in.
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