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Originally Posted by cline
...... wanted to use the cameras for looking at a scale of a few feet away From the rear swim platform but with good comments regarding lack of depth perception the use as a backup camera is limited it sounds.
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Wish I had a photo of my back camera to illustrate a point.
While in the slip & on the fly bridge, I turned on the back camera to view the transom. I then climbed down and positioned a long pole from the transom, extending it back beyond the transom.Then, while back on the fly bridge I looked at the image on the plotter to see where the poles length met the top of the plotters image. I then marked the pole and measured that mark's distance from the transom.
10 feet! Now, when I back out of the slip, if I see any object (boat, land, etc,) starting to appear at the top of the camera's image, I know I'm about 10 feet from a collision. Sounds corny but it works for me !
BTW, the below image is of my dinghy while in the slip...
I do remove it from there before I back out!