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Breezer
February 4, 2010, 8:48pm Report to Moderator

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I was bored a while back and ended up ordering two of these tiny video cameras off ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300386276882

They were £13 each with postage from China or somewhere, took a couple of weeks. Wasnt expecting much but thought could be interesting rigged up in my car somewhere for events and trackdays. Results are actually ok plus the microphone works unlike a lot. I havent tried it on the bike yet but I expect it will get the wobbles but no worse than the ~£100 ones out there. You can remove a lot of them with post processing anyway so I will do some tests on the bike and see what happens.

Did some brief camera testing earlier on the car though and then played around with picture in picture processing afterwards. Seems to work quite well (ignoring transparency in 1st one and timing issue in 2nd one and blowing exhaust on the car but thats a different subject...) Cant get rid of the time/date at the bottom which is a pain but I could just crop it off.

I will update with bike mounted ones at the weekend





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Floater
February 4, 2010, 8:56pm Report to Moderator
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Mega good quality for the money. Something is up with your car though, it sounds French!
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Oui, good camera for the cash
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Thats because it is heh. Bits were probably falling off as I filmed, surprised you cant hear them on the camera  



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Nowt wrong with french cars.......... imagine all of the jobless mechanics around if there weren't any
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Do you have a link to one of them cameras please?
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Breezer
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heh....... dont expect them to be great on the bike but we shall see. Mounting is so crucial. My vholdr gets a bit wobbly if mounted on my head but cable tied to the bike its rock solid but these little things have just as good quality pretty much and infinitely better sound!


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I had a GoPro Wide which was ok but for the money I would say the quality on them little things is better.
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I bought one these about a month ago but forgot to mention it. Have you read the box and instructions Breezer? Its bloody hilarious! Gotta love that Chinglish!!
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I attempted to read it! Mine dont have green leds and I love the way they go on about "when the led is crushed" which I presume means gone out. On that note, had mine plugged in via usb for about 4 hours now and both leds still on, apparently the orange one should go out when they are charged, I wont risk the mains one due to the fact theres no overcharge protection as mentioned in the slip they put in with them


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I have a blue and a red led. I used mine a little on a walk but intned to give it a go on the bike too. also handy for spying on people!
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I would never use it for such a thing..... can be used as a webcam which may be of use to some though especially as most basic webcams cost more


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£13...  wow


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Theres footage on youtube of these camera's bike mounted and they actually come out quite well !  Did you get the one with the helmet mount aswell breezer?
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