On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 19:00 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Hi everyone,                                                                      
>                                                                       
> The subject above doesn't seem too clear, so allow me to elaborate: I don't 
> know much about digital photography, but I need a digital camara that can be
> triggered electrically, enclosed in a weather-proof housing, and save images
> to a SD-card or over wifi.                                            
>                                                                            
> To pique your interest, and maybe help me find a solution, my main problem     
> is that in the valley I live the new sport seems to be smashing mail        
> boxes. At the instant my mail box experiences a jarring vibration, I want to                      
> take a photograph of the area. The location of the mail box is far from any
> power source but the Sun and batteries. Attacks occur infrequently, so   
> something that could be setup and the require little maintenance is     
> preferred.                                                                    

I have the following camera:
http://www.trendnet.com/en/products/TV-IP400w.htm

It's a Wifi enabled IP camera. It works very well.

For taking pictures, I have a PC running a program (under linux) called
"motion". It gathers pictures from the camera (over the network) and any
time it detects motion it captures a series of pictures. It can even
capture a video if you fancy that. For windows the camera comes with
software that performs a similar function.

If motion capture is good enough there are other Wifi enabled cameras
that will automatically capture images on detection of a certain amount
of motion and email those pictures to you, if you don't have a PC
running on your network to run motion.

If motion capture isn't enough, then you could perhaps trigger a shutter
that usually covers the camera (so motion is never detected) and then
when the mailbox is rattled, the shutter slides away and the camera
records whatever motion it sees.

TTYL

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