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I chose a good quality camera for rear/top view and getting a
decent monitor as I have never seen many faces on TV reality cop shows where you
can recognise the bank robbers and quite frankly when I get to the surface and
see a launch 200 meters away, travelling at 20 knots, I want to know if it’s
the bow or the stern that I can see! Also IF I come up and there is a
good looking chick sunbathing topless I dont want blurred vision. Hugh From:
owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of ShellyDalg@aol.com I did a quick search for CCTV cameras. This seems the simplest way
to go for a "periscope" camera. There's a TON of them available at a fairly low cost. They are
compact and can be plugged right into a small monitor inside the sub, or fed
through a recorder or PC. Pretty low tech. The problem is picture quality. The better the picture.....the
higher the cost. We've all seen the crummy video pictures of robbers in a 7-11
store. These are the "cheap" cameras. They can be had for $40 or so.
A good picture will run about $150. A small monitor, say 10" X 10" is
another $150, plus cables and "stuff". You'll spend way more making the housing than the cost of the
camera. An cast acrylic tube one inch thick by 10 inch diameter and 6
inches tall runs up to $1000. ( OUCH!!!) Is there a place to get a 10X10X6 acrylic block that can be
machined into a tube or small dome ? I haven't found a place yet. Frank D.
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