gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
Not really, takes less than a min for me to do 2 cameras.
A good helmet camera?
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Not really, takes less than a min for me to do 2 cameras.
mad despot
Veteran
- Location
- Reading, England
A word of warning about that type of camera from 7dayshop; I had one and whilst the results were really impressive, I found that after a couple of months the battery no longer held much of a charge and the recordings lasted no more than a couple of minutes.
It's been sitting unused now since last summer after too many cut-off recordings
Thinking about a Contour HD if I ever manage to find out whether I'm going to still be in a job by the end of the summer....
This is true, but there is a workaround:
http://www.chucklohr.com/808/MD80/
The parts are available from Maplin, but it does mean that you need somewhere to store the external battery.
I've now published my review of the Dogcam Bullet HD Wide. It's not bacd for £145 (or £130.50 if you use the code 'magnatom' at checkout) 
And no, I don't get any commission unfortunately!
And no, I don't get any commission unfortunately!
I've now published my review of the Dogcam Bullet HD Wide. It's not bacd for £145 (or £130.50 if you use the code 'magnatom' at checkout)
And no, I don't get any commission unfortunately!
Shame cannot test it against the Poseiden HD720, for £66 it's an option for the more price conscious.
If I could get a hold of one for testing, I'd be happy to do a side by side comparison. Who sells it?
Just Chinese EBay retailers as far as I remember, although there might have been a couple of UK internet shops but for over 100 quid.
Quick search suggests that filming in dark might be poor. Haven't tested the Wide in dark, but it's little brother did surprisingly well.
It will be a while before I get the chance to try it in the dark, not expecting great things from it but maybe I be surprised.
Ah. Didn't realise that you actually had one. You could send it to me for testing! ;-)
It'll be interesting to see the footage, jut make sure you test it in low light conditions.
I took a punt on buying one to use as a rear camera for my road bike, moving the rear camera from my hybrid is a real pain and being a lazy git I thought I try this camera, knowing the picture quality does not have to be as good on the rear camera.
There's a couple of test video's on my YouTube channel, if it's cloudy one weekend evening I should be able to try it out in poor lighting. Also I will have some new uploads this week when I used the road bike to commute to work and some drivers misbehaved.
Update on the ContourGPS.
The new 1.16 firmware is very good. I used a beta version on holiday extensively and had no lockups, although whether this was down to using a new Kingston Class 4 32gb card or not, I don't know.
The picture quality is extremely good and a vast improvement on earlier versions - 1080p is better than my Panasonic HD camcorder. There's a link below to a few seconds of original (27mb) 720p 60fps video.
Video link
John
The new 1.16 firmware is very good. I used a beta version on holiday extensively and had no lockups, although whether this was down to using a new Kingston Class 4 32gb card or not, I don't know.
The picture quality is extremely good and a vast improvement on earlier versions - 1080p is better than my Panasonic HD camcorder. There's a link below to a few seconds of original (27mb) 720p 60fps video.
Video link
John
twowheelsgood
Senior Member
- Location
- Zurich Switzerland
Contour GPS video looks ok, but the real resolution doesnt look all that special. Look at the "P" parking sign for example. I'd suggest putting that image quality into a 1920x1080 file is merely a waste of storage space, I'd be very surprised if there were more detail than a good SD camera.
If its really better than your Panasonic HD camera, then Id suggest it was faulty. I have the Panasonic SD60, a fairly cheap mid-range camcorder and that is not even close, especially given the very favourable light conditions in that clip.
You haven't recompressed that at all?
Just that looks no better than the upscaled SD footage from cheaper cameras I've seen, but at 60fps. Does running it at 60 lower the image quality?
I'm getting seriously tempted now to buy a camera myself - got some money coming in soon and I need to make some expenses. As a sound designer I think I can legitimise buying such a camera as a business expense! I almost certainly will use one for sound recording.
Just a shame there doesn't appear to be any that take an external mic source other than that really expensive two-part cam. Which I wouldn't mind having!
Currently erring towards the Poseidon as the quality is seriously impressive for the price. Anyone got any low light footage yet? Only thing I saw before was some taken from inside a car which wasn't really relevant.
Just a shame there doesn't appear to be any that take an external mic source other than that really expensive two-part cam. Which I wouldn't mind having!
Currently erring towards the Poseidon as the quality is seriously impressive for the price. Anyone got any low light footage yet? Only thing I saw before was some taken from inside a car which wasn't really relevant.
