martynjc1977
Veteran
magnatom said:Surely you have a credit card....
Still paying off my bike dude, so any thing i get now will have to be cash only i'm afraid
magnatom said:Surely you have a credit card....
martynjc1977 said:Still paying off my bike dude, so any thing i get now will have to be cash only i'm afraid
I think I saw an advert on eBay for his Wife... good starting price too, IIRC.magnatom said:S'alright, I'm only teasing! Money is tight at chez magnatom as well. I can only afford to do this by selling other things to fund it.
magnatom said:S'alright, I'm only teasing! Money is tight at chez magnatom as well. I can only afford to do this by selling other things to fund it.
Sh4rkyBloke said:
It says "full D1 720 x 576 resolution with up to 10mb/s Bit rate" but the other one (the one you have) says "It can record at 8mb/s 720 x 576"... am I misunderstanding what all this means? (quite possible!).magnatom said:Ah, I certainly know about that one. However, it has at least half the battery power, and only records in MPEG4 and at lower bit rate. So although the videos will be reasonable, the quality will be lower. Resolution isn't everything (I'm a geek you see!)
I've also heard of other users not being entirely happy with it (I some of the connectors are a bit flimsy etc).
fossyant said:This is a BIKE forum..not a camera one.....
Less about bit rate, codecs etc and more about gear ratios and power output...
Aaah, okay... didn't know that.magnatom said:Sorry, what i meant to focus on was the difference between mpeg2 and mpeg4. There is a lot less compression on mpeg2 compared to mpeg4, so in general, especially for fast moving pictures I think mpeg2 is considered better. Of course the nice thing about the one I'm getting is it's flexibility, being able to record in both.
GrasB said:Mags, it's not that simple. MPEG2 needs more bandwidth for the same quality of video compared to MPEG4 codecs (which are more a class than a single codec) so what you gain in motion fidelity you may well lose in worse compression rates.