I have a dirt cheap Topica that I bought from Bluecherry with a misrepresented 4 port capture card. They sold it as Window compatible.... which it wasn't, so I can't really give Bluecherry high marks for customer service. Anyway, I normally bury my webcam pic at the bottom of my page, but we have been having a pretty good snow event the last 24 hours, so I put it at the top of my page. It is mounted in a place where I have a spotlight behind it. When it snows at night it makes a pretty good pic, even with the low quality. Here is the link:
www.Skunkbayweather.comNote.... It is snowing lightly right now and nearly dusk, so it looks almost like fog. In about an hour it will be dark and it looks like it will be snowing pretty hard.... according to the Doppler. That would be a good time to check out the spot light behind the camera concept.
Edit.... OK, saying "Look at my site RIGHT NOW" on a forum doesn't exactly work.
So, I captured a decent image during a moderate squall and here is the image:
It's not great quality, but it definitely gets the point across that it is snowing. Having the spotlight behind the cam really lights up each flake. Actually, snow is a pretty big deal around here. My hit count has been WAY up this last week.
Greg