Mini keyring-sized digital camera/camcorder

GSDog said:
Where and how did you mount it?
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Sun visor thingy's, the hole it clicks in on the right, just stuck the camera into it.
Unclick the sunvisor thing and put a camera through this hole:

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Memory cards came today :)

Bit difficult to extract the little buggers once you've pushed them home. Had to unscrew the case after trying to poke it out with a paperclip.

Just need to practice a bit before tying it on something now.
 
The finish on my buttons has started to revealing the standard glossy plastic underneath, it seems the matte rubbery finish is only a thin overcoat.

Other than that it's still working great. I just dislike the windbreak effect the mic has whenever it encounters low level noises or faces the wind - it mutes away background noises like car engine noise, voices etc.

I also managed to get ice cream on mine as I was recording a chill video at lunch of the view from my boot (was lying in there in the sun lid open enjoying the calm browsing the web and recording etc) when I ran for an ice cream truck that drove by and getting too excited on the walk back :p

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Damn that Volvo interior is minging :p
 
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Took mine out on my gsx-r 600 today to get some screaming shots of my rev counter and the countryside run.

Doh!, i mounted the camera too high and all i got was a 1hr video of trees and sky!.
Going to duct tape it to the tank tomorrow if the weathers good and try again.
 
I've just run some benchmarks on the Kingston 4GB Micro SDHC Class 4 cards that OcUK sell. Should be a fine for for these cameras.

100MB Test Size:
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1000MB Test Size:
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UPDATE: These were tested with a USB SDHC card reader (from Poundland) and not through the camera itself.
 
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This thing only ever uses sequential writes so the cheapest nastiest micro sd will work, seq write only has to be 1MB/s.
 
PiKe said:
This thing only ever uses sequential writes so the cheapest nastiest micro sd will work, seq write only has to be 1MB/s.
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Ive tried a 1gb sandisk card and that writes fine no stutter (duplicate frames), ive brought a PNY 4gb card and thats useless, its getting loads of duplicate frames, tried formatting and still no good, infact it stutters at the same points during the recording.. Im ditching this card and just ordered a 4gb Sandisk.

According to the Q&A on the website for these cameras it says it needs a good random write speed.....

Q. Why does the video freeze for a few seconds at some points when I play the AVI video file? (100324)
A. The video has long strings of duplicate frames because the flash card has poor random write speed. Try a different, better flash card. The micro SD card "class" is the sequential write speed and benchmarks show that every card is compliant. Even a compliant card can have poor random write speed. The only way to know the random write speed is to measure it with a benchmark program like Crystal Disk Mark.

and this would mean why my PNY card was getting lots of duplicate frames as its random write speed (512k) was only 0.7
 
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My god i just spent 1hr 30 min uploading a 25 minute video and then im told by youtube it can only be 10 min long >>
 
Lent mine to my bro in law at the weekend for a trackday to test it out... unfortunately it was mounted at a funny angle so the video wasn't too great :(
 
Well, it's been a fortnight and several enquiring emails yet I've only just had confirmation that my camera has been dispatched. So much for 2-3 working days.

Negative/neutral feedback ahoy!
 
I ordered on Sunday and it arrived today. Bloody brilliant.

Problem is I don't have a memory card yet :(

EDIT: Scrap that! My Mum's Nokia has a Micro SD card in it :)

EDIT: My first test video (YouTube compression is crap)

 
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Frenzy said:
mine clicks in and out with a spring, doesnt yours?
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Yes it does and then again no. Seems to get caught once pushed in by the outer shell.

Incidentally EACH of my tiny micro SD cards came in a (by comparison) massive padded envelope. Slightly weird to look into the depths and see a tiny little black chip hiding in the corner o.0

Paid just over £10 each for two Sandisk 8GB MicroSD cards. Seem to have decent numbers. I'm not accessing the cards through the camera by the way, it's in a USB card reader.

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I'll check with the little "Apple" adaptor and see if speeds from the camera are any different later.
 
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