GardenWatchCam

Every year tens of millions of people love designing, planting and caring for their gardens. Gardening brings hours of relaxation and enjoyment, and instills a feeling of satisfaction at being able to share this beauty with others. However, gardens only last as long as the growing season and a gardener may remember to take a photo or two but that doesn’t capture the total experience. The GardenWatchCam does just that by capturing the gardens growth from the first shoots breaking the earth to the graceful surrender of the last petal to cooling nights.

Simple to operate and locate this simple camera will take high quality time lapse photos of your garden at pre-determined times for months. Not just Gardens…anything that experiences change over time can be captured. Autumn foliage can be captured in all of its brilliance in hourly intervals, ensuring you never miss that elusive “peak”. The blossoming of the cherry which overwhelms you with its colour is caught in its entirety. Even a house being built whether it’s by you or the spider in the garden can be captured throughout the building process.

The GardenWatchCam is a low cost, EASY to use, weather resistant, time lapse camera. The GardenWatchCam is EASY to mount in the ground and uses a high quality lens to target your chosen gardening area, or a single bloom.

Anything that moves without moving out of the field of view is perfect for the GardenWatchCam.Watch your house be built, wasps, spiders or a bird build a nest. Capture the Morning Glory in all its glory and the Clematis climbing the trellis. Easy, glorious photos of your garden from the first sprout of spring to the cold of winter. Nothing is lost and every moment can be enjoyed and shared year round. Brinno provides an easy viewing application for Windows PC viewing or you can use any AVI video player or JPEG picture display application. Perfectly simple to use, perfectly simple to view. Perfect for you.

Its basic features are :

• 6 time lapse setting choices of: 1 minutes, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours
• 1 time lapse setting that you can personalize through Brinno software (included)
• Wide lens view of any gardening area
• Macro view option allows you to focus on an individual flower, or small area 50cm away from the camera
• High quality, weather resistant camera
• Photos can be stored on any standard USB Flash Drive (not included)
• Power Management technology for maximum battery life
• Displays: Power ON/OFF, Battery Full, USB Flash Drive Full
• NO wires
• Windows-compatible photo files
• Brinno "Easy Photo" application included
• Small size and lightweight
• Simple to use single button operation
• Mega pixel photos
• Flexible mounting stake to use in the ground
• Attractive yet functional design
• Time and date stamped JPEG photos

Specifications:

• Camera Sensor - 1.3 Mega Pixel CMOS
• Field of View - 54°
• Focal Length - 50cm to infinity
• Macro Effect - 50cm with background unfocused
• Photo Rate Settings - 6 predetermined time settings, 1 custom
• Time - All photos are time and date stamped
• Format - A JPEG image stored in a single folder for easy playback and viewing as an AVI file.
• Portable memory storage - Up to 2GB on any standard USB Flash Drive
• System Memory - 8 MB SD RAM
• Power Source - 4 AA Batteries
• Length of battery usagem- 4 - 6 months depending on time setting
• Size (DxWxH) cm - 5.3 x 9.3 x 19.2
• Weight - 340g (without batteries)
• Housing material - Weather resistant plastic
• Accessories - Custom designed adjustable mounting stake

The first 6 settings and are chosen simply by opening up the camera and turning the switch to the desired time (ranging from 1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours). The seventh custom setting is created by the user by inserting their USB Flash Drive into the Garden Camera which downloads our software onto the USB Thumb Drive. The user then inserts the USB Flash Drive into their computer and follows the directions on their screen allowing them to customise any specific time setting that they want to have their GardenWatchCam take photos at. You may want three series of photos each day, early morning, high noon and dusk, or just one, when the sun hits the garden perfectly setting off the blooms.

The Macro switch gives you close up photos. This feature allows you to capture big colorful time lapse photos of a particular flower or object from 50cm away.

The GardenWatchCam fastens securely into the top of a custom designed adjustable mounting stake for locating it anywhere. The GardenWatchCam is designed to blend into the outdoor environment with its pleasing green tones and smooth lines….no boxy shape to jar the eye. Weather resistant, it is designed to withstand driving rain, morning dew and high noon heat.

Smart enough to know when to stop, the GardenWatchCam will not take photos when it is too dark out. In fact, it sleeps between photos thereby enabling remarkably long battery life. One set of 4 AA batteries will last for up to 6 months of hourly garden photos.

GardenWatchCam stores your photos on a USB Flash Drive. USB Flash Drive storage is the most popular storage medium worldwide. Almost everyone who uses a computer has a USB Flash drive.

Easy to set up and use, the camera flips open, the drive is inserted, time lapse setting chosen, closed, is switched on, located and will work silently for months.

Download GardenWatchCam brochure.