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Recording from Underwater Camera Question

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I am looking between an aqua vu and a marcum camera and I am trying to figure out how I can record what I am seeing down there. I used a buddy's aqua vu last year and recorded using a checked out video camera from the university. Since then I graduated and dont want to buy a $500 video camera and would like a little bit more recording capacity than the aqua vu dvr offers. Has anyone used recording equipment such as a DVR system like Tvo or a dvd recorder to directly save larger amounts of video? Also if any of you have used a DVD recorder before, how much time can you save on a single DVD? I was thinking of using a deepcycle,and an invertor to run the recording device. Who knows maybe I'm in a dream world on this one, and should just settle for the aqua vu dvr. confused.gif

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How long do you want to record? I have the dvr attatchment for my aquavu and it will record for as long as an SD card will hold, and they make SDs with a lot of capacity. Unless you were planning on using it like a trail cam and leaving it down the hole all the time in your perm house? grin.gif

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As the above posts states, its just a matter of getting a SD card big enough to hold whatever you want to record with the Aqua-VU DVR... but as for going some other way... I know on the Aqua- vu units there is a rca jack out.. .I have used a small TV/VCR and recorded that way... but never with a dig unit like you are talking like tevo.

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You can buy a 1 GB SD card for $15 This gives you 4hrs record time I believe and that is straight. When you get home drop the files on your computer and start over......or by 2 cards. So as Deitz Said the Aqua-Vu DVR is great and the time you can record is just based on your SD Card.

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Well I was misinformed then. THe guy I talked to last year in the store told me that the aqua vu dvr filled up much faster than what you described! Guess he didnt know what he was talking about. I am leaning more torwards the aqua-vu with DVR setup now that I know this. Thanks a ton guys! And I have a 4GB sd card for the digital camera that I can use too. grin.gif

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No problem deitz, meant that i have a 4gb card in my digital camera that i got for 40 bucks and i can take it out of there and use it in the DVR, heck of a lot cheaper than buying all that equpiment i talked about above. I think I may even get the aqua vu with the built in dvr thing.

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The built in unit is very nice!... I had the ScoutXL already and then just added the handheld DVR... works pretty slick! If you go to the Aqua-vu site

http://www.naturevisioninc.com/aquavu/aquavideo2/index.html

then click on panfish.... I shot all the ones that say bedding gills... there are like 4 of them...

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I don't have any experience with the aqua vu DVR but I would think that it would record what ever is sent into it. A color camera may take up more memory space making your record times shorter then the standard black and white recordings.

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Just to give everyone an idea on SD Card recording capabilities.

1G Card = Approx 140 mins of Recording

512mb Card = Approx 67 mins of Recording

I've upgraded this year and currently have 2-1gb and 1-2gb card for recording. I've yet to fill a card, just have to remember to transfer the files after each recording. smile.gif

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the aqua vu DVR is only compatable with the aqua-vu products as far as I know.. they all use different connectors, hence dont play nice together!

Dietz is correct, the marcum has a whole different connection for theirs making it unshareable with Aqua-vu and so forth with other brands. Great marketing scheme on their part, in my opinion.

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