how many of you drive with a video cam rolling?
 

I'm starting to have a feeling that mounting a cam facing the front while driving is necessary. To protect myself, my car as well as occupant inside my vehicle if ICBC wants prove.

I will be setting one up shortly. A friend runs Autolismo and the kits are pretty reasonably priced (anywhere from $50-110). Small change considering protection it can provide in the event you have an accident.

Kev

I mount my Iphone with an Cockpit Recorder app :)

this is probably something i should start learning about hah. post up more details guys :thumbsup:

im running some HD DVR too

same, but make sure u have a camera that records. 170 degrees, so u can tell whats happening at a wider angle.



edit: dealextr has quite a few options. autolismo is basically dealext stuff plus u get a year warranty with deal ex.

this came in handy , when i saw a courier driving crazy on broadway, in and out, cutting people off....extracted picture /video , sent to company, got email from manager sayin "ill have the driver in for re-education"

I've never heard of that before. Can you show how you have mounted it?

Kev

2nd, pics of the mounting bracket?

Make that 3!

I'm also really interested in this after seeing a few videos posted by I believe RCubed.

Anyone have pictures of it after it's been mounted? Does it at all look like MORE of an incentive for say, a potential break in?

I've been looking at a dash camera called "Black Box" DR-1000. Wide angle, audio recording, gps location with Google Map support, tilt/shock/level sensors. All in a somewhat easy to use program. $150.

Car Black Box DR-1000 WDR Camera Accident Record GPS 4G | eBay

Here is a video my buddy took with the recorder, in this case recording a near accident involving two vehicles in front of him


Ignore the loud chinese radio, he's such a fob sometimes. lol

But yeah, pretty good quality and coverage of the road in front.

Kev

This one doesnt seem too bad, does anyone have this one locally??

this one isn't in HD though

group buy?

honestly you dont need hd, some hd is interpolated from vga

well hd is useful to catch license plates, cuz ive tired setting mine to record with vga, yes it saves memory but you can barely make out anything in the vid

Wow... thanks for bringing these up. I always thought these systems would cost upwards of 200 dollars....
My next gizmo for my car... or my family's cars

Interesting, does it just memory wipe when you shut off the car and start recording again when you're moving?

Exactly. When I was looking into dash cameras, I saw a lot of HD ones going for $2xx. They all were just HD interpolated by software. In other words, fake HD, not high quality at all. You're better off using the VGA mode if you have these kinds.

There are true HD ones but I can't find any $2xx.

I'm not sure whether HD would be necessary or not. But yeah, I guess reading license plates off would be pretty important.

Kev

i heard of one that records segments of like 15 minutes and makes it into 1 video file, and when it runs out of memory (depending on your memory card capacity), it will start rewriting the files one by one from the beginning.

i havent researched into these, so there might be other systems out there ;p

EDIT: worded that poorly. it makes a new video clip file for every 15 minutes it records. and erases old clips when memory card runs out of space ;]

maybe we can get a vendor on board... I'll be more than happy to be in a groupbuy for this

i just got one on ebay, the cheap $36 one which is non HD... wish i got the HD one cause it cant read out plate numbers..

i got one that is HD. its fun :fullofwin: