I love James Bond Movies for many reasons. One of them for sure is to get a glimpse into the future of high tech gadgetry. If you look back at the old Bond flicks you'll see what I mean. From civilian flights to the moon to listening devices hidden in James ' room, it is actually kind of scary to see how much of that fantasy has come to be reality.
Surveillance equipment from listening devices to video devices used to be the provenance of Private Investigators (PI 's) and the CIA almost exclusively. NOT ANY MORE.
Understanding Camera Lenses
Now ordinary citizens by the millions use hidden cameras to watch their businesses, check on marital indiscretions, provide home security, and maybe the biggest use is as a nanny camera to watch the kids and see what the babysitter isdoing.
Have you ever wondered how they work? The mystique stops here. Here are the basics on how they work.
1. Take an everyday common item that is smaller than an elephant and bigger than your big toe. The key is to make it completely unremarkable so to not arouse suspicion.
2. Insert a board room. A board room is a fixed lens mounted on a circuit board. The lens is either a pinhole or full opened lens usually to very wide angle focal length around 3.6 mm.
3. Wire the board room to a DVR or VCR using a simple RCA cable. Or if you want something you need a wireless transmitter to send the signal to a receiver.
4. Turn it on and you are ready to go.
There is another option if you are not handy withstuff like this and that is to let your fingers do the work on a keyboard and Google's HIDDEN SPY CAMERA'. There you'll find lots of listings but only one "HIDDEN SPY CAMERA" usually on the first or second page.
They have the biggest assortment of hidden spy cameras on the web for you to choose from. Once you get it is a matter of plugging it in. Even I can do that!
Hidden Spy Camera-How Does It Work?