Silver camera erected after Gatso, what is it?!

dodgerat77 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2009 Posts: 2

One of my local Gatso's, has had a silver camera erected 2 meters away from it, appears to have some kind of white hazed over glass over the front.

Any ideas what it is?

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/pault123/DSC03072.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/pault123/DSC03073.jpg

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Wendolene · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:02 am Post subject:

Very good question. I have seen those "going up" in are area and wondered what they are.

I wait with bated breath....
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Kremmen · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:18 am Post subject:

Looks like a ANPR camera to me?

These seem to be popping up all over the place and presumably to track us as well as the usual remote insurance and MOT checks.
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M8TJT · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:37 pm Post subject:

My guess would be that it's an anpr camera to make the recognition of the offending car easier to read. It's only a guess though.

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:57 pm Post subject:

Could it be just an Infra-red illuminator, to help the Gatso see better in the dark?

I've seen quite a lot of those, but never quite the same shape as yours, which I have to admit does look more "camera-like".

M8TJT · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:15 pm Post subject:

I've just had a close up look at one of these cams. The 'lens' is not fully transparent, but has a sort of diffuser fitted, so I have revised my assessment of thes and am now 99% sure that it is a secondary flash unit to better light up the back of the car.

EDIT: 'My' cam is like the square single 'lens' one shown below, but I havn't tested my theory on the road.

Darren · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:33 pm Post subject:

We've covered these before and aren't a lot wiser as to what they are.

First were reported back in 2007 on the A303, two additional cameras next to an existing GATSO:

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delboyuk1984 · Lifetime Member Joined: Aug 26, 2008 Posts: 11

Hi,

The silver poles infront of the gatso is the slave flash unit, this is used when the site has been upgraded to use the new digital gatso camera. This is required as the digital camera is less sensitive in the dark versus a wet film camera.

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