The photography thread made me curious what if anything you use to capture your cars, bikes and pushbikes in motion.
After a lot of looking about I ended up with this, under a hundred quid from Maplin.
www.aiptek.eu/index.php?option=com_product&task=view&productid=146&Itemid=308
It's an MPEG4 flash video recorder with LCD and the usual pretty mediocre CMOS camera you find on cheap digital video recorders. What makes this one a little different though is that it has a composite video input socket into which you can plug any video source, and it came with a "sporty cam" bullet camera which though not the best camera ever is surprisingly good and IMO better for video than the one on the DV camera itself. An hour of 640x480 video per battery charge is pretty good, back in the summer I and a mate used one to produce a video of our trip round Scotland with the camera gaffer taped to various parts of my Polo as we charged through the twisties. We also took a Video8 camcorder with us, about as good as analogue camcorders got, and I was surprised how fuzzy it looked next to the DV footage as I'd always considered it to be rather good.
Have any of you experimented with video on your cars and bikes?
After a lot of looking about I ended up with this, under a hundred quid from Maplin.
www.aiptek.eu/index.php?option=com_product&task=view&productid=146&Itemid=308
It's an MPEG4 flash video recorder with LCD and the usual pretty mediocre CMOS camera you find on cheap digital video recorders. What makes this one a little different though is that it has a composite video input socket into which you can plug any video source, and it came with a "sporty cam" bullet camera which though not the best camera ever is surprisingly good and IMO better for video than the one on the DV camera itself. An hour of 640x480 video per battery charge is pretty good, back in the summer I and a mate used one to produce a video of our trip round Scotland with the camera gaffer taped to various parts of my Polo as we charged through the twisties. We also took a Video8 camcorder with us, about as good as analogue camcorders got, and I was surprised how fuzzy it looked next to the DV footage as I'd always considered it to be rather good.
Have any of you experimented with video on your cars and bikes?
