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Postby Horse » Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:15 pm


Smiling Assassin wrote:Seems a bit jerky (low frame rate or frame drop-out) but would certainly be adequate for observed runs.


Check the Youtube links I posted earlier - they seem a lot smoother. Interesting comparison with another system that's twice the price too.
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Postby Smiling Assassin » Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:10 pm


Angus wrote:Didn't record you response to the Peugeot at the start tho' :D

It's a while ago now of course but I don't think it caused any particular problem. The Pug had plenty of room, speed wasn't an issue, and as you can see I then gave him a wide berth and tucked back in in front - sorted.

Horse wrote:Interesting comparison with another system that's twice the price too.

Yeah, and the rest! The kit I've being using put a big dent in about £300 I seem to think. What I would like to lay my hands on would be one of the two recorders here. Being solid state they wouldn't suffer the problem of a head-crash on the 3" laptop hard drive of the Archos when it gets bounced around.
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Postby faboka » Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:28 pm


Mate bought one of these a few months back. Nice little camera. Regarding the frame rates you was told to use a faster card but dont think he got round to getting one.
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Postby Horse » Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:54 am


FWIW, apparently the same thing but significantly cheaper (and this is one of the more'expensive' ones on e-Bay!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Spy-cam-SpyCam-Mi ... 3a56a05456
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Postby Mr Cholmondeley-Warner » Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:50 pm


Ching! :D

I shall report in due course.
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Postby TiJay » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:19 pm


I use an ATC 3K for karting (a bit overpriced at £100, I bought mine cheap off a friend) and it happily does 30fps at 480p. For in car use, I strap my old LG Viewty (same res and framerate) to the rear view mirror and the quality surpasses any reasonably priced action camera out there!

My friend recently bought a Countour HD for his motorbike, which looks fantastic but is pricey at £250ish. I've attached some piccies for comparison:

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^ ATC 3K (£100 RRP)

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^ LG Viewty (£80ish RRP now?)

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^ Contour HD (pic stolen from Youtube so horribly compressed, RRP £240)
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Postby Horse » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:55 am


Horse wrote:FWIW, apparently the same thing but significantly cheaper (and this is one of the more'expensive' ones on e-Bay!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Spy-cam-SpyCam-Mi ... 3a56a05456


Update: apparently not quite the same thing; plastic case, different switches - but same 'guts' so image quality should be the same.
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