OK, it's a slow night at work and I have been on eBay. I've had a good think about this camera business (see previous post), and I have decided that expecting something to live in the car and be available for day-to-day recording, and at the same time be a good video camera for bike rides is unreasonable. So I have decided to buy the cheapest thing I can find which fits the minimum requirements, and save the bike cam purchase for another day.
I am getting one of these:
which
comes from eBay and costs the princely sum of £22.95 with free postage. It's got some good features, too:
- runs off a battery and a 12v charger
- records in chunks, choice of 2, 5 or 15 minutes
- automatically over-writes the oldest file when the SC card is full
- powers on with the car ignition
- IR illumination for night recording
- time and date stamp on recordings
- motion detection, which might be interesting filming the wildlife that visits the garden overnight
- will support an SD card up to 32GB.
The only downside I can see is that it's got a wide angle lens but the image may not fit a computer screen very well. The videograbs I have seen have a weird compressed perspective, although this may be a function of the small, square screen and a wide-angle image. We shall see. For under 25 beer tokens, if it works as described for a year I shall be happy.
And it is shipped from Pontypridd by a UK seller, not shipped from a warehouse in an industrial estate off the M25 by a seller in China. Pontypridd is almost local.
It should arrive in a few days. I will let you know how I get on.
I'm really looking forward to the endless vlogs of your journeys to and from work posted on youtube....
ReplyDelete(yes, I use sarcasm a lot - it's my second name...)
All in the spirit of humour of course!
I'm guessing it certainly came from China originally, however. From the features list:
ReplyDeleteRotatable LCD, up to 270 degree. Make operate more convenience
Real Time & Date display on video, don’t need to read on computer
Motion Detect – select this function, it will automatically record if an object movement
Still, not as bad as the translation in this:
winterson.com/2009/01/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west-redux.html
Can't remember where I first saw this linked (might even have been here somewhere), but it's always worth reposting. Even on a really flimsy premise!
Yes, I'm sure it's Chinese. They are sold all over the place, and always with the same poorly-translated blurb in the 'specification' blurb. Those subtitles are a hoot.
ReplyDeleteTwo blurbs in one sentence. 0/10 for style.
DeleteIt's Welsh?
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