Video cameras and bikes?

[NordieBoy]

There are 2 types of problems with the Oregon.
1 is the batteries and the other is the SD card

Wrapping tape around the batteries helps as well as pulling the camera apart and stretching the contacts out down the bottom of the battery compartment.
When the camera is apart you can also cut strips of insulation tape and put them above where the SD card sits. This will make it hard for the SD card to be pulled in and out, but you can just use the USB able to download instead.
Doing this pushes the card contacts hard up against the cameras contacts and prevents errors in recording.

Or smear some of the o-ring lube that comes with the camera on the battery and sd-card.

[ACTION CAMZ]

Action Camz, will you be at the MotoTT trackday on saturday? My Archos DVR had landed but the bullet cam probably won't turn up in time (typical). I'd hire a cam off you if you were there (must be self powered I guess).

Sorry I didn't reply sooner. Last week my laptop was out of action as I was having "issues" with Vista.
I was at the VMCC Round 2 at Manfeild that weekend anyway. If you would like us to attend your event in the future please contact us via the website.
www.actioncamz.co.nz

Or at YouTube quality the ATC2K will do just over 3 hours.

That is true, however it is always best to record at the highest possible resolution then change it before you upload it.

[Mikkel]

You could PM Transalper - he captures quite a few videos of his adventure rides.

[NordieBoy]

That is true, however it is always best to record at the highest possible resolution then change it before you upload it.

True but I'd rather get the full 3 hours of a ride/race than a 1 hour segment.

[CB ARGH]

Every single camera would need to be mounted in a different way, so use your initiative on that one. As for the wind noise, grab yourself some foam/sponge or go the full distance with a "Pop sock/microphone sock" from a music instrument store. Throw this over the small microphone hole, you may need a bit of duct tape to hold it there. But like I said before, use your imagination, make something up. It ain't that hard.

[ACTION CAMZ]

True but I'd rather get the full 3 hours of a ride/race than a 1 hour segment.

Its a shame that nobody seems to make a camera compact enough like the Oregon that records at decent resolution for more than an hour.

[Headbanger]

Do these cams your discussing record to SD cards?, what are they now?, $20 for 2GB? Grab a six back of em.

[NordieBoy]

Do these cams your discussing record to SD cards?, what are they now?, $20 for 2GB? Grab a six back of em.

The batteries only last for about 3 hours and it takes time and effort to change a card (that you've taken pains to make difficult to move ) .

[Headbanger]

Righto,

Against my advice the oldboy picked himself up one of these ATC2K cameras, as expected the audio is complete and utter shit, The camera is unreliable (due to the issues discussed earlier in this thread) the mounting systems provided are junk, the video quality is bad, real bad, Taking a still image from any point of the footage and it looks like a dogs breakfast, Picture is fuzzy, colours are off, road signs are unreadable. And if shes not mounted rock solid you get distorted pixels to hell and back.

My opinion.

Mount a digi cam on your bike instead, Plenty of people have done it.Or shell out more money and buy a better system. These maybe all right for non-motorised sports but I couldn't recommend them for anything else. Unless you really want munted audio and fuzzy video.

That aside, Once you remove any quality from the footage the camera may have accidentally picked in order to put her on youtube it doesn't look to shabby at all, Though only within the confines of the youtube universe.

Heres the video I took today, Audio was removed and replaced with music, My bike is loud, and she was makin sweet sweet music and all I got in the footage was a barely audible drone and a heap of wind noise.

[NordieBoy]

If you ever want to get rid of it PM me.

Against my advice the oldboy picked himself up one of these ATC2K cameras, as expected the audio is complete and utter shit, The camera is unreliable (due to the issues discussed earlier in this thread) the mounting systems provided are junk, the video quality is bad, real bad, Taking a still image from any point of the footage and it looks like a dogs breakfast, Picture is fuzzy, colours are off, road signs are unreadable. And if shes not mounted rock solid you get distorted pixels to hell and back.

[Headbanger]

If you ever want to get rid of it PM me.

You will be first on the list. Though it all depends on what the oldboy wants to do with it, and how well it works mounted on an RC car......

[NordieBoy]

On an RC car it'd be the thumps that'd be the problem.
Electric or gas?
On or off-road?

[orangeback]

FlyCamOne2
http://www.hobby-lobby.com/video-camera.htm
20-30min recording time

[captain_andrey]

I have just got myself one of these and am in the process of mounting it on the bike (will use the tank cap screws to mount it)
http://ascent.co.nz/productspecifica...?ItemID=366773
Canon FS100. Its all solid state based so no moving parts apart from zoom and focus. Its very small, about the size of a red bull can and weighs about the same.

Will report results once the job is finished.

[skelstar]

Very interested in the FS100 mentioned above. Can't seem to find the video resolution and recording times. I can see that its:

Movies:
16:9 - approx. 550,000 pixels (ADV.Z off)
16:9 - approx. 710,000 pixels (ADV.Z on, wide)
16:9 - approx. 410,000 pixels (ADV.Z on tele)

... but not sure what that translate to re: 800x600. Very keen on the widescreen aspect.

EDIT - I see from a forum review that it does 720p. Nice