Hey Mastodonians! In the past two or three years, I have encountered situations where it would be *really* nice to stick a camera into an enclosed space (in my case they are: a mysterious void space in my friend’s house that we want to potentially open up and turn into storage space, and a couple of spaces between walls or in duct work).

I looked at a *bunch* of borescope cameras on Amazon, but they all seem to have a maximum focal range of about 4 inches. They also come with long cables, so I know I can get closer, but I’m more interested in sticking a camera in a hole and seeing what the space looks like - I *think* that means I want something that can focus farther away.

So, some questions if you have any experience with this kind of thing. Am I wrong about the range? Am I looking at the wrong kind of camera? Should I be looking at “spy” cameras or the like? What do professionals actually use in these cases? Or do they just use the borescopes and tolerate out-of-focus images?

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