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milhazes: My videos so far - Camponotus cruentatus and Messor barbarus (15. Jun 2014 16:50)

These are the videos I made so far using a webcam and infrared light. Please feel free to leave any comments.

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jeffjohnson: Re: My videos so far - Camponotus cruentatus and Messor barbarus (15. Jun 2014 18:12)

Wow, great work, thanks for sharing!:)

milhazes: Re: My videos so far - Camponotus cruentatus and Messor barbarus (15. Jun 2014 18:51)

Wow, great work, thanks for sharing!:)

Thank you! The camera is actually very cheap. bought from amazon and cost me arroud 17 euros

jeffjohnson: Re: My videos so far - Camponotus cruentatus and Messor barbarus (15. Jun 2014 18:55)

The videos look like profession equipment was used. :) Which webcam did you used exactly?

milhazes: Re: My videos so far - Camponotus cruentatus and Messor barbarus (15. Jun 2014 19:01)

The videos look like profession equipment was used. :) Which webcam did you used exactly?

For the 1st one in this post (last one I made) I used a V7 HD. If you search in amazon you find it's very cheap. The Cons is that I can only film in HD at 10 fps. Since I do alot of time lapse videos, It's no problem.
The others, I used a old cheap webcam which is only SD. I removed the red plastic for IR filtering so i could make some shots in the dark. I used IR light, and since ants cannot see IR light they were not disturbed. I must say that my Messor b arbarus are very sensible to light and become berzerk. With the IR light they feel like they were in the dark.