Dashboard Camera Question

Muffin` said:
Yes, but if it's on and recording for your usual dreary commute it'll keep you in check of limits and driving etiquette, which can only bee a good thing. If you're hooning.... turn it off.
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Do these have a 1 touch instant delete? would be very useful for getting pulled over or when you know your in the wrong after a crash
 
Do these have a 1 touch instant delete? would be very useful for getting pulled over or when you know your in the wrong after a crash
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If you think that your going to be in that position having one of these is probably not for you, not that it would make it any worse, if they are pulling you then they probably have enough evidence on their own in car camera to get you anyway.
 
If your in the wrong admit it, I had to go to court a few years ago because the guy who hit me lied, I won but it was still a pain.
 
lemonade said:
How does everyone keep their dashcams? Do you leave it fitted in your car all the time? I wouldn't mind a dashcam but it is a massive chore if you have to keep removing and installing it each time you leave the car, and leaving it in the car permanently is a no-no as it will get nicked. Also irritating to have to carry it around with you.
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Mine is permanently fixed behind the rear view mirror. It's tiny, so no one would really notice it there.

It splices into the radio wiring, so has a permenant and a switching 12v feed. It starts recording when I start the car and stops when I turn off. The memory card cycles storage continuously.
 
EnderXi said:
I found this review of what looks like the camera for me:

http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2013/7...e-do-it-all-mount-anywhere-1080p-micro-c.html

I have found a UK supplier who can deliver everything for around £80 the quality looks right now i just gotta figure out how to fit it on the car :)
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Is that any different from the £3 camera that everyone bought a while back?
Seems as it doesn't have the additional features that would make it useful yet, such as 'motion recording'.

I see what makes it worth £75 more.
 
what £3 camera was that, if you can tell me which one that was I will get that one :)

I am looking for something small which the £30 one up top isnt exactly tiny this one is very small, about the size of a key fob so can be installed out of site.
 
I've got a DR32 and bagged one when they were cheaper then they are now and its a good bit of kit to have, don't bother removing it as in fact it in itself acts as a deterrent and certainly isn't worth breaking into the car to rob it.

Also, i had some spare cash and fancied doing something with the car so fitting the camera was that.
 
The £80 camera has auto start and stop when power on/off feature and the main thing is that it has car mounts, extra long power cable so you can hide it away while still mounting it where you want and it has reviews and samples of the video quality in day and night.

Some of the cheaper cameras it is almost not worth buying them because the quality of the video is so poor that you cant see anything worthwhile from the video because of cheap lenses with poor field of view etc etc.
 
Muffin` said:
Yes, but if it's on and recording for your usual dreary commute it'll keep you in check of limits and driving etiquette, which can only bee a good thing. If you're hooning.... turn it off.
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HardwareGeek said:
Do these have a 1 touch instant delete? would be very useful for getting pulled over or when you know your in the wrong after a crash
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I guess you could just remember to hide it after an accident (until you've had a chance to watch the footage), as-well as crawling out of the wreckage so that the fire brigade don't chop the roof off.
 
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EnderXi said:
The £80 camera has auto start and stop when power on/off feature and the main thing is that it has car mounts, extra long power cable so you can hide it away while still mounting it where you want and it has reviews and samples of the video quality in day and night.

Some of the cheaper cameras it is almost not worth buying them because the quality of the video is so poor that you cant see anything worthwhile from the video because of cheap lenses with poor field of view etc etc.
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Aye the quality can be hit and miss with the key fob cameras, the one I have is fine, it was a more useful type. Granted I haven't used it for recording anything outside the house on the road, and it doesn't have auto stop -start thingy, which is rather useful indeed.
 
I've had a DR32 for several months now, got it from ebay for £66. It's really good. Hides discreetly behind rear view mirror so you can't see it when driving and the video quality is excellent. Stores approx 6 hours of footage on a 32gb MicroSD. Plenty of samples on Youtube.
 
EnderXi said:
I found this review of what looks like the camera for me:

http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2013/7...e-do-it-all-mount-anywhere-1080p-micro-c.html

I have found a UK supplier who can deliver everything for around £80 the quality looks right now i just gotta figure out how to fit it on the car :)
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That's the one i bought http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mobius-Acti...rofessional_Video_Cameras&hash=item232c961f6a

Does a really good job and is small, i'm waiting on a extension cable so i can take the sensor out of the body and mount it so it's far more inconspicuous.

The quality is really good.:)
 
I nearly had some great footage for one of these last week.

Going down a 30mph main road, junction on my right about 75 meters away.

A car appears at the junction, looking to turn right - so, head in the same direction I am.

He goes to pull out, but immediately stops halfway into the first lane as a car was coming the other way.

I take my foot off the throttle as its clear fun and games are about to start.

The car he has just stopped infront of, flashes him and waves him forward. He doesn't bother looking at me and just pulls out.

I hit the brakes for everything they are worth, as well as the horn and my lights. He just about gets out infront of me, and drives off as though nothing had happened.

Guy who had flashed and waved him out turns out to be about 90. Doubt he saw me up the road, and drives off also.

That is exactly the sort of accident I'd want one of these cameras for. If I'd hit him, you could bet your bottom dollar there would be all sorts of crap going on the guys insurance form, when quite simply, his 2 failed attempts to get out of the junction highlight just how poor his driving standard was.


I can however understand that if you like to 'play' on the roads, having a dash cam is a bad idea. My solution? Don't play on the roads. Go on track days.
 
Conanius said:
I nearly had some great footage for one of these last week.

Going down a 30mph main road, junction on my right about 75 meters away.

A car appears at the junction, looking to turn right - so, head in the same direction I am.

He goes to pull out, but immediately stops halfway into the first lane as a car was coming the other way.

I take my foot off the throttle as its clear fun and games are about to start.

The car he has just stopped infront of, flashes him and waves him forward. He doesn't bother looking at me and just pulls out.

I hit the brakes for everything they are worth, as well as the horn and my lights. He just about gets out infront of me, and drives off as though nothing had happened.

Guy who had flashed and waved him out turns out to be about 90. Doubt he saw me up the road, and drives off also.

That is exactly the sort of accident I'd want one of these cameras for. If I'd hit him, you could bet your bottom dollar there would be all sorts of crap going on the guys insurance form, when quite simply, his 2 failed attempts to get out of the junction highlight just how poor his driving standard was.


I can however understand that if you like to 'play' on the roads, having a dash cam is a bad idea. My solution? Don't play on the roads. Go on track days.
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This is pretty much why I bought mine and the sort of situation I'd hope that mine would clear up should the situation ever arise. I hope it doesn't, but it'd certainly demonstrate who's to blame and save a lot of faffing around with insurance companies... "Oh the other party has not fully accepted blame, we need to continue investigating"... No you don't, here's some in-car footage showing the accident.
 
inb4 people start using epic photoshop/sony vegas/lucas arts studio CGI to change video footage to work in their favour

"well as you can see office I was approaching the junction WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE THE MILLENNIUM FALCON showed up and jumped to light speed dazzling me causing me to run the stop sign" ...or what ever xD hahaha

Conanius, that's the reason I'd want one too... so many people have just joined the main road from a side street where visibility in fairness isn't the greatest.

Also want one to make some random videos of road driving too :) just to add to the collection of montage vids already on youtube. :D
 
Well I ordered one, should be delivered to work tomorrow, then the fun part comes of trying to route the cable out of the way round the screen, ideally i want to put it behind the rear view mirror, the run across the top of the window should be fine but down the side of the window is going to be hard it is really well sealed up there :)
 
I bought a cheap one from China just over a year ago - picture was ok but bracket was so big it hung half down screen - I was so impressed I now have a Roadhawk HD on front and it sit's nicely up behind rear view mirror - I just bought another cheap one to replace old one and that's on rear screen - bodged up a smaller bracket for it.

I have 32g SD card in each one and download it to Pc each week - keep it for three weeks then over write oldest.

Most of these camera's record on a loop so once card is full it over records the first file and so on -- you can set time of each file to 2 min 5 min and 10min - I have noticed on cheap one's you loose about 3sec between files where as Roadhawk is continuous. - There is a button on them you can press if there is something you want to keep if something happens while you are driving. - it saves previous 20 sec and 20 sec after you press button.

dave
 
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