You may discover you need to make a hidden video when it comes to your security or your family's safety. Whereas it used to be complicated to use video equipment, especially secretly, with new technology today it's fairly simple. Make a hidden video at a relatively low cost, and have the evidence you need when trying to protect your loved ones and yourself from intruders and others.
Instructions
1. Know that cameras and videos today are saving lives. Note the clips you've seen on TV or online of criminals attacking and robbing people on camera only to be caught soon thereafter. Realize video cameras can help you in the same way. Protect children from a deceptive nanny or babysitter, keep elderly family members safe and record activity around your home while you're at work or asleep.
2. Buy low cost equipment to save money. Get a web camera for no more than $50 at your local consumer electronics store or order one from an online company. Hook it up to your computer and load the software that comes with the camera. See that you may need extra long cords and other equipment to make a hidden video. Set "record" from your computer before you leave.
3. Purchase more expensive cameras to get more options and flexibility, such as wireless Internet cameras or pan/tilt wireless cameras. Realize the price goes up significantly-starting at around $200. Find the D-Link Internet Camera-DCS-G900, however, for about $90, which is less expensive and is a compact wireless camera especially designed for surveillance that only records when it detects motion, when scheduled to record or when you want to record manually. View a live feed or take still shots also.
4. Check security specialty companies online who specialize in selling security and surveillance equipment. Buy individual cameras or security systems packages that include cameras. Discover that black and white security cameras start at around $150. Take note you'll need recording equipment to go along with the cameras though.
5. Use spy cameras to make a hidden video. Buy spy cams online and get pinhole cameras that go completely undetected starting at around $50 and up to approximately $300. Obtain the necessary equipment and accessories to go with spy cameras for an additional cost.
6. Get self-contained spy hidden cameras in clocks, plants, fans, exit signs, teddy bears and other common objects starting at about $200 for a teddy bear camera (black and white) and $120 for a light bulb camera (black and white).
7. Hide web cams and other conspicuous cameras well in plants, behind tinted glass or a mirror, or place them up high in a room or outside. Make copies of your videos after you've recorded and keep the copies in a different location for security or legal purposes.
