Any night vision cameras for suggestion?

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Hi everyone.

I’m attempting to analyze the flight paths of insects flying during night and day. Which means the camera preferably can be both modes.

Any suggestions on a model? I am pretty stumped because the ones mentioned are usually for surveillance purposes, and I don’t know if they’re easy enough to be interfaced with OpenCV?

Thanks.
Vizier87

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Almost any camera that sense somewhere in the infrared will work. As usual, more details would be needed for a valid recommendation, such as over what kind of range do you want to track the insects? In what environment? Etc.

Nevertheless to specifically answer your questions, I would say do not worry about getting recent hardware to work with OpenCV, most everything will nowadays. There are visible cameras that can see into the near IR that are pretty inexpensive and would see insects day and night, at short ranges. More requirements get better results.

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Hi Phyzx,

Thanks for the reply.

It’ll be within a pretty close range, where the enclosure for the insects is about 90cm cubed.

My concern regarding night vision is because it’ll have climate control in the environment such as 12h:12hr day/night cycles. Therefore there’ll be a period where it’s completely dark. It’s for analyzing the circadian rhythm.

I’m not sure if using IR cameras will affect the insects since IR has been said to affect the flight activity. However the evidence is not that strong so I’ll attempt it first.

Any pointers? Thanks

Vizier87