I emailed the Left Side Software who provided the web cam for Southbank and informed them that their camera had been off line. There response was:

"Hi, thanks for the note. We have been moving and I've just got the cam set
up in the new office. You'll notice the view has changed somewhat!

Cheers"

Its a pitty, cos the new view is very boring! Corner Bourke Street (Mall) and Russell Street :(

oh no?? i used to love the image from Russell st looking at booming Southbank! damn

DAMN!! Oh well, another bookmark deleted.

Boo.

i never really looked at them that much there must be heaps of CTV camera's that can be looked at and mabye even controlled any one????? :P

yeh anyone? :)

Not sure if you guys know about this one.

Melbourne's Shipping Management Centre
These cover views of Swanson Dock, West Gate Bridge, Bolte Bridge and the Yarra/Maribyrnong River junction.

http://www.portofmelbourne.com/shipping/webcams/smc_cam.asp

Anyone know any others?

I'm going to be setting one up soon at my dads office. I'm going to use a cheap digital camera rather than a webcam.
This will be the view!
http://www.melbournephotos.net/pics/2005-01-19%20Melbourne%20-%20New%20offices%20in%20Albert%20Rd/IMG_5483.jpg

I'm going to be setting one up soon at my dads office. I'm going to use a cheap digital camera rather than a webcam.
This will be the view!

Uewepuep,
COOL! From which suburb is that from?

South Melbourne.

I'm going to be setting one up soon at my dads office. I'm going to use a cheap digital camera rather than a webcam...

Isn't that fairly costly to do something like that?

Isn't that fairly costly to do something like that?
Nah, I'm going to use an old p2 laptop dad has sitting around and buy a cheap camera for less than $200. The one I'm looking at is a 3.2mp fuji i think.
They will have adsl so I'll just upload a photo every 10 minutes or so. I work it out as using 400mb a month. Which they wont notice. In theory.

South Melbourne.

Hahaha... I just realized I can see my ex-girlfriend's apartment building to the far left (Clarendon Towers). http://www.xs4all.nl/~olie/fok/smilies/Smilies/armanimania_puh3.gif

I'm going to be setting one up soon at my dads office. I'm going to use a cheap digital camera rather than a webcam.


less talk more action! ;)

nice veiws... maybe put it on a stand on the roof? :P

I got the cam finally all setup and it was working great. I leave dads office, get home, check on the cam, and the computer its attached to isnt responding. F%#%$@%^%^&%&$#

So yeah, today was the day, but alas it was not meant to be. Hopefully I can get a key and fix it tomorrow. I think its something to do with the wirless card connecting the camera's computer to dads network.
The few images that it took (still twiddling the settings) are on my site at the address http://www.melbournephotos.net/webcam/

Also the timestamps are incorrect. Stupid america time.

This is great dan could you imagine having something like this on top of Rialto looking straight at Eureka!

wow that web cam will shit all over the omni cam one!!! excellent work dandaman, cannot wait!

I got the cam finally all setup and it was working great. I leave dads office, get home, check on the cam, and the computer its attached to isnt responding. F%#%$@%^%^&%&$#

Whoohoo! Good stuff! I'm tempted to do one myself now.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~olie/fok/smilies/Smilies/cheerlie-bonk.gif http://www.xs4all.nl/~olie/fok/smilies/Smilies/cheerlie-bonk.gif http://www.xs4all.nl/~olie/fok/smilies/Smilies/cheerlie-bonk.gif http://www.xs4all.nl/~olie/fok/smilies/Smilies/cheerlie-bonk.gif http://www.xs4all.nl/~olie/fok/smilies/Smilies/cheerlie-bonk.gif

http://www.melbournephotos.net/webcam/

Its all working! *crosses fingers*

Seems to be working fine. :)

Good job. :cheers:

unreal, quality is awesome!
forget omnicam

Excellent, best Melbourne webcam!

True!

ON YA DAN. NICE VIEW

Great stuff Dan! Hopefully you can keep it up and running and it doesn't take too much space up!

Great work. The early morning pic with the city lights still on is the best so far I reckon. Is there anything you can do about getting the night pics to turn out better? I suppose you could set a longer exposure time, but then that would affect the day pics right.

beggers cant be choosers stu.

Great work. The early morning pic with the city lights still on is the best so far I reckon. Is there anything you can do about getting the night pics to turn out better? I suppose you could set a longer exposure time, but then that would affect the day pics right.

I think i worked out a way to do it. But i'm not so sure i should, now its impossible to see into peoples appartments and I think thats probably a good thing :).

Another problem is the focusing. I can't manually focus and at night it chucks a wobbly. Hrm

images tonite are the best yet in my opinion!

Yeah!
Sorry about the reflections in the windows. The painters are still there painting until late. But how f%$ing magic is eureka's glass?
http://www.melbournephotos.net/webcam/2005-03-17_2000.jpg

winnah.

dandaman u dont need to apologise for anything, its perfect!!!

magic!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v733/barsby/2005-03-17_1200.jpg

Sensational dawn breaking shot.

That one is world photo worthy!!! At least post it in the rate Melbourne skyline thread!

Stu

Hey uewupuep! Your webcam just missed taking a photo at 7:45 just now... (and there I was, hoping to make a time lapse of the whole day :uh:

Regards, Philip :)

I just moved everything over to australian time. The files are named to the time they are taken rather than 19 hours ago in usa time.
So any links anyone made are broken :(

win

http://www.melbournephotos.net/webcam/2005-03-18_2001.jpg

how long are images likely to remain on the server dan?

what sort of rotation do you have them on? (surely you won't keep them for longer than xyz amount of time?)

omg, such lovely shots, great camera. philip, please do make a time lapse. it would look very good.

Hey uewupuep! Your webcam just missed taking a photo at 7:45 just now... (and there I was, hoping to make a time lapse of the whole day :uh:

Regards, Philip :)
lol, i know i know! i did one at 7:55 to make up for it! I deleted a directory forgetting it was being used. I've also been doing a bit of timelapse. I need a better program i think.

win
how long are images likely to remain on the server dan?
what sort of rotation do you have them on? (surely you won't keep them for longer than xyz amount of time?)
I haven't set it up yet... But images older than 24 hours will be copied to my router at home. Right now though they are just building up and there are 250ish there now but will eventually only ever be 96.


p.s. I've also added blur to the appartment complex on the bottom right. It was a bit freaky being able to see in through their window. 21:45 is the first to have it.

http://www.melbournephotos.net/misc/melbnphoto18march.avi
the last 48 hours :). Some sort of mpg4.

HAH, that's awesome.

GG puep.

Brilliant!

Imagine doing that over the last 2 years!

A year long timelapse this time next year will be amazing.

lol keep that going for ages and you will see eureka slowly climb, you see the crane rise in that movie, but you hardly notice it, imagine if you took away the night shots and did day shots form say a month ago, it would besoo cool, if you only had shots form a month ago.

http://www.melbournephotos.net/misc/melbnphoto18march.avi
the last 48 hours :). Some sort of mpg4.

That's farking AWESOME!!! Well done dude.

http://www.melbournephotos.net/webcam/2005-03-17_2000.jpg

Need to photoshop it with another picture taken at the same time of day (or slightly altered with the new sunset times) but leave the strange UFO looking thing near Eureka

That'll fuck em

Pretty sure you've managed the capture the final crane rise on Eureka too in the last part of that time lapse

http://www.melbournephotos.net/webcam/2005-03-25_1215.jpg
Text up the top. F*ck I'm pissed off.

:lol: :(

Well it worked for about an hour before breaking again.
%$#%$%&*&*($!@$##!%^%

Tomorrow I'll try again.

Working now!

http://www.melbournephotos.net/webcam/2005-04-06_0846.jpg

Not only did we get two luftballons at 6:30 am this morning, but Dan scored a couple of birds at 8:45 am!

uewepuep, take a bow :applause:

Those aren't birds, they're spy planes sent to check on the status of E! :)

lol. :)
I love it when i get the luftballons. There was another one with them in a few weeks back.

http://www.melbournephotos.net/webcam/2005-04-11_0700.jpg

pimp that webcam, pimp it!

another thing i do (i hope everyone does) is you save a photo from each day into a folder and after a while you have a mini movie. looking at todays pic compared to last fridays, there were core rises with FWP,E&Y & RDT.and floor rises with Eureka. great stuff.

Sounds good Culwulla! Is there a way on the site to get photos from a couple of months ago or so?

Sounds good Culwulla! Is there a way on the site to get photos from a couple of months ago or so?Nope. They take up too much space on my server so I have to take them off. I do save them on my computer though. I have around 2000 photos now! lol.

Its hasn't been online all that long yet. So even i dont have photos from a couple of months ago.

Looks like if we ever need pics from the past we come straight to you lol.

Sorry guys, but from now on you'll now have to do an image shack backup of images from the webcam you want to post. All photos are now deleted 24 hours after they were taken.
In compensation i made an animated gif.
RIALTO IS NOT A LIGHTHOUSE.
http://www.melbournephotos.net/misc/lighthouseS.gif

Its also my slightly annoying avatar now.

Hey Dan, looks like you have accidently caught a core rise on Fresh water place?

^yes!

Hey Dan, looks like you have accidently caught a core rise on Fresh water place?
Hey i did too! lol :P

slightly annoying avatar?

hah...

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hey dan last week the cam moved slightly and now doesnt have in RDT. i was saving each pic daily so i can runa slideshow movie to watch progress but now it stuffed .lol
did wind move it or did you have to readjust it?

Argh, it has a huge sign on it that says "stay away from me!, Dont touch!" Yet someone obviously has.

I'll go in and try and re-align it. Might be a while though as I have a million uni assignments due over the next 2 weeks. Its that time of year :(

^ hey no worries. when ever you can, no big deal.
cheers