Wireless Lipstick Camera
As if the matchbox, the lighter, the pen, the tie-pins were not enough; there is a spy camera specially designed for women - the wireless lipstick camera. It is a small pinhole type of camera that has one of the best camouflages ever - lipstick! Who would ever guess that behind the glossy red color of a lipstick lies something much more powerful, deadly and stealth like a spy camera.
A wireless lipstick camera can be a video camera or a still camera. But this doesn't necessarily mean that a lipstick camera will be built within a lipstick. Lipstick cameras have got their name for being the same size as of a lipstick and the exterior even looks like a lipstick. These cameras are also known as bullet cameras although now more than ever they are available in different shapes and sizes. Most lipstick cameras are used for multiple purposes like as a helmet-mounted point of view camera especially for paratroopers and skydivers, spying, taking pictures of important documents, investigative purposes, as an intruder detector, and many more. Lipstick cameras are easily available at camera stores as well as photo supply stores and some specialized stores as well.
One of the reasons for the popularity of the lipstick camera is the fact that it is simple to use and small in size and hence easy to carry around. It is more of a portable camera that can even be taken to place where no other camera can go. Depending on the type of camera, it can be powerful enough to detect motion in daylight or even at night. Most of these cameras have a horizontal resolution of 600 lines, illumination of 0.0003 Lux. Here are some of the other technical specifications of a basic wireless lipstick camera:
1. Image Sensor: This can vary from one camera to another but normally the best ones have a Sony Super HAD CCD
2. Lens Type: 3.6 mm board micro-lens
3. Pixels: 508 (V) X 811 (H)
4. Power Consumption: 100mA at 12V DC
5. Power Requirements: 12V DC
6. S/N Ratio: 50dB
7. Video Format: NTSC
8. Shutter: 1/60-1/100‚000
9. Weight: 1.8oz (51.03 grams)
10. Dimensions: 2.6" X 0.75" X 0.75" (6.6cm X 1.9cm X 1.9cm)
Normally, it uses the same technology and is almost the same size as a pinhole camera. A pinhole camera is one of the smallest cameras available in the market and can be fit into just about any object like wall clock, digital clock, pen and lipstick. So basically, you can even consider a pinhole camera in a lipstick for this purpose. The wireless lipstick camera has the ability to store several images in a storage device built within the camera. With the help of highly sensitive devices, it can record video and has the ability to broadcast a signal to a proper receiver. The camera also has a built-in audio recorder. In spite of being so small in size, this is a spy camera with attractive and powerful features and is something that you can't do without.
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