Webcam

Great Harwood Town Crier - crying the fair.

The NEW Great Harwood Appreciation Society ClockCam.

To view the camera's output (opens in a new window or tab), click on the type of browser you're using: Internet Explorer or Anything else (such as FireFox or Google Chrome) . These are basically the same - they just start the camera in a different streaming mode. You can tinker with the size, position and mode using the controls on the left of the screen when it comes up.

If you use Internet Explorer, the first time you access the camera you may be asked to install an ActiveX control. On all browsers, f you ever switch to MPEG-4 mode, you will be asked to install another control the first time you use it. See below for more details about using the camera, but it's not all that hard...

Information:
Studio 25 Photography 2 Town Hall Square, Great Harwood ran a "webcam day" on Saturday 19th April. Photoshoots were free, and the proceeds from any images/frames we sold were put towards a camera that will feed constant high-quality video instead of periodic low-quality stills currently in use. We raised over £200 which was more than enough to get a better camera than the one currently displaying above.

Contributors (in chronological order)
Allan McNamara
Chris Lynch
Barbara Robinson
Peter Cornwell
John Duckworth
Dorothy Morgan
Lynn Thomson
Eddlestone's Bakery
Studio 25
plus two anonymous contributions.

There's still a bit of tidying up to do, perhaps a bit of repositioning, and decommissioning the old camera. Note that when as more people use the camera simultaneously, the update times will become less frequent. You can minimise this by making the camera window smaller. Click on the camera icon to open a new browser window with a snapshot image, which you can right click and save to your hard drive. You can use the pan controls, but the easiest way to reposition the camera is to click somewhere on the image itself, and the point you click will become the new image centre. It's worth pointing out that if it appears to be moving erratically, the most likely reason is someone else is moving the camera too.

Eventually, I'll read the manual. Our particular camera can be set up so visitors can record video to SD card. The idea is that you record something you want, and email the studio - we'll grab the file from the card and email it to you. Watch this space...

I'm also planning to set it up on a Dynamic DNS because the link above will stop working if ever we have a power cut and we get a new internet address when reconnected to BT.