#REQUEST - looking for a very decent night camera

[Der.Zoomer]

This is by the way my "old" camera, the IR lights started working again...
But Iam not gonna trust this. I opted for the SJ4000 and the removal of the IR filter.
In addition to this Iam going to solder a bunch of IR leds together, use some sort of milk glass to smooth out the light cone and call it a day I guess.

 

[irbyz]

But Iam not gonna trust this. I opted for the SJ4000 and the removal of the IR filter.

Sounds like a plan... Let us know how that goes!

I couldn't find any better obvious/cheap/better supported option, off-hand.

 

[GermanCowLover]

This is by the way my "old" camera, the IR lights started working again...
But Iam not gonna trust this. I opted for the SJ4000 and the removal of the IR filter.
In addition to this Iam going to solder a bunch of IR leds together, use some sort of milk glass to smooth out the light cone and call it a day I guess.

I have a very similar cmera to your one. Bought it in the Action-Markt for about 10 Euros. The quality is poor, the manual bad, the keypresses very unhandy to achieve a function. I believe you will have a very much better cam with a SJ-4000.
Im Action-Markt haben die auch solche Action-Cams für ca. 15 Euro. Vielleicht mal investieren und probieren? Action-Märkte gibt es in NRW am meisten, vielleicht ist ja einer in Deiner Nähe?

 

[Der.Zoomer]

I've never heard of "Action-Markt" and the province "NRW" is far away.
I have a similiar cam like that posted in my picture above, it works good but has a mere 90° lens which is absolutely not suitable when I have full body contact with my Ostriches and the camera needs to be close.

 

[Der.Zoomer]

okay I got the camera, but Iam having an issue with the audio. It keeps cutting out, like every 30ms and comes back after 5ms.
its like the sound is on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off in a very very regular fashin.
Anyone else with this cam having this issue?
SDcard is a 64GB Sandisk Ultra Class10, so its fast enough

 

[Der.Zoomer]

OK LOL, I found the issue, its an VLC issue. In my video editing program the generated MOV file play audio just fine...
odd.....

 

[irbyz]

okay I got the camera, but Iam having an issue with the audio. It keeps cutting out, like every 30ms and comes back after 5ms.
its like the sound is on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off in a very very regular fashin.
Anyone else with this cam having this issue?
SDcard is a 64GB Sandisk Ultra Class10, so its fast enough

Have you tried the latest firmware update to see if that helps? http://support.sjcam.com/support/solutions/folders/9000065704

 

[irbyz]

OK LOL, I found the issue, its an VLC issue. In my video editing program the generated MOV file play audio just fine...
odd.....

Posts crossed.... yeah, that'll work, too!

Hopefully everything else goes smoothly.

 

[Der.Zoomer]

Okay, the IR MOD for the SJ4000 is done, I removed the IR filter glass and used my old tiny 1x1x1" camera with IR LEDs to test it out.
Now I need a proper IR light source, preferably 5V.
I soldered 3 IR LEDs together for 5V and have two of these in parallel, I could attach that to a small battery bank.
Looks promising so far!