Are humming birds too fast or tiny to capture with motion sensor at a range of 1 meters? Please advise with settings or mounting suggestions. Thanks
Good question, but at 20 fps, quality would be a miss.
You’d think, but Bird Buddy sells a hummingbird feeder and it isn’t any sort of impressive frame rate (don’t recall what their camera uses). I think they rely on the bird hovering for a while and feeding.
The wings will be a blur with any camera that isn’t a slow motion one, but they still get some pretty good pictures.
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Should be doable, but I would mount it where they will hover for a while pretty close to the camera, so aimed at a feeder, flower, etc. Play with the sensitivity levels and detection zone, should be able to get something out of it. The high compression rate of these cams may not yield the result you’re looking for though. There are video hummingbird feeders (like Bird Buddy and others) that from what I’ve seen use less compression.
Typically motion “across” the camera is more likely to trigger it than moving toward the camera, but from what I’ve seen they zig and zag a lot so hopefully can get it to work.
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