Right, for work I am looking at changes in vegetation over the course of the year. I want to set up some cameras to monitor the crop by taking one picture a day so I can see what is going on with the plants in between my periodic visits to the site. One of these cameras will have to be infrared so we can see fine variations in the health of the vegetation. The others will be B&W with a red filter and possibly some kind of stereo set-up. This will be on four sites- so possibly I'll need as many as 16 cameras + a few spares
It came up yesterday that maybe we should use film cameras for this because they will be cheaper and probably more reliable in terms of eating batteries, cold etc than digitals and possibly less attractive to the sticky fingered if they'll be left out for a year or more (plus, any excuse to buy and use lots of film is a goodun as far as I'm concerned
). I'm scoping out costs for doing it this way
So- I'll need some 35mm need cameras that are:
- motor driven
- manual focus (so it can be set on infinity depending on the film used)
- wide-ish agle (c35mm)
- Some kind of exposure control (manual would be best for the IR)
- can use a filter on
- cheap
I've looked at Nikon f301s etc but having to buy matched lenses for each camera could be a right pain. Somewhere out there there must be a cheap and cheery fixed lens compact camera (probably from 1980 something...) that fits the bill. Can anyone help point me in the direction of something that'll work?
