RealBeale

RealBeale

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Anybody recommend a decent dash cam ? Needs to be good enough to use at night as that's when I commute to work . I'm not savvy with all of todays modern gizmo's (still have an old Nokia 3600 FFS!!) so all the jargon means nothing to me.
Doesn't have to be expensive , as long as it will take a video of the road ahead and show the traffic lights. Driving to work is like being on the deck of the USS Missouri under Kamikaze attack. I've lost count of the accidents I've seen and nearly been involved in ,in just the last year. They are just so unpredictable and seem to willingly break every rule on the road 'cos if they hit you they will have a million witnesses to say it was you'r fault.
I need a cam to prove my innocence , rather than just to prove someone else's guilt.
 
i got this 1 of ebay about a month ago its cheap and its brilliant just need to buy a sd card and your of with night vision too
ebay number 161123754484
 
I have been using a Blackvue DR400 for 3 years. Excellent product. Small and compact.

Cost me £200 back then.
 
I use a Blackvue DR400g HD. It sits neatly behind the rear view mirror.
It came with a 16gb class 6 sd card, but I fitted a 32gb class 10 card and the picture quality is amazing both day and night.
It has GPS which displays your speed during playback.
Cost inc. the sd card upgrade about £260
 
talldavey said:
I use a Blackvue DR400g HD. It sits neatly behind the rear view mirror.
It came with a 16gb class 6 sd card, but I fitted a 32gb class 10 card and the picture quality is amazing both day and night.
It has GPS which displays your speed during playback.
Cost inc. the sd card upgrade about £260
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Any problems with 400 seem to have been sorted... Would love to get the 2 camera one but way above my budget... :(
 
kevins said:
i got this 1 of ebay about a month ago its cheap and its brilliant just need to buy a sd card and your of with night vision too
ebay number 161123754484
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For the record I bought one of these as well.


Utter :censored::censored::censored:'ing useless piece of cheap Chinese :censored: :censored: total waste of money. Rubbish quality video, battery doesnt hold charge more than five minutes, audio (if you want to use that?) is beyond terrible. Cant see a damn thing the picture quality is so poor, even though its advertised as "full 1080p HD quality!". The "night vision" (believe me I use that term VERY loosely) is just a few infra red LEDs and has a range of about 2ft or less and any oncoming headlights totally kill it and cause it to white out.

When it comes to dash cams you really get what you pay for. If you want something thats actually going to be decent and useable in the event of an accident, or just to get some nice laning/offroad videos, splash out on something better quality.
 
I use my iphone 4 on video setting in a windscreen phone holder.
Gives an hour or so of recording with a nice clear picture and as long as it’s plugged into the ciggy power supply, the battery is fine.

Not tried night recording though.
 
Actually that reminds me, I was thinking of using a crap old laptop as an in-car computer full of maps and stuff, could possibly have it tucked away under a seat and connected to a small HD webcam? Then bodge a dashboard mount for it? Recording straight to hard drive, bigger than any SD memory card out there, and wont require constant emptying like using your phone would.
 
Tiercel said:
Actually that reminds me, I was thinking of using a crap old laptop as an in-car computer full of maps and stuff, could possibly have it tucked away under a seat and connected to a small HD webcam? Then bodge a dashboard mount for it? Recording straight to hard drive, bigger than any SD memory card out there, and wont require constant emptying like using your phone would.
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Get a solid state HD ...
 
Ah yeah didnt think of that, if youre bumping around greenlaning a regular hard drive wont appreciate being bounced around whilst in use... SSDs are prohibitively expensive to use exclusively though, even a small 120GB SSD will set you back best part of £100, and youll fill that up in no time... although thinking about it, having an SSD then emptying all the recordings you want to keep onto an external hard drive when you get the chance might be a less expensive option... and wouldnt risk damaging the mechanical HDD by using it whilst the landy is going all over the place. Maybe if I was building a proper expedition landy where money was no issue thats what Id do, but spending £100+ on an SSD and decent laptop & webcam setup, would be better off buying a decent dash cam for less money...
 
If you Search for TheMikeProcter on YouTube you will see several videos I have shot using the DR400. Hopefully it is obvious that the videos that are car mounted. In the Skoda I also had a rear mounted camera. I have been working on where to fit it on the Freelander, as the back window can disappear inside the back door!!!! Looks like it will be on the offside on the hard trim inside the boot at roof level. Just need to find a preferably switched live feed so I can then power it up.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMikeProcter
 
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