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MattS5 said:
No, apologies, I thought the models you were discussing were around £40.
Indeed, once over the £100 mark you'd expect to get something reliable.
From memory my blackvue was around £160 2 years ago. So far I've needed it 3 times to produce evidence for 3 accidents I've witnessed and touch wood it's produced the goods on all occasions.
I had a mini 0806 as I wanted a small discreet camera with no screen or one that didn't distract. After a while, it stopped connecting to my laptop so I couldn't view the footage. Shortly after if fell apart, literally. Replaced it with a lower end BlackVue. I paid £129 on Amazon and it's brilliant. Great footage, easy to fit, not huge, no screen to distract you and the software works well. Some of the cheaper ones are a false economy. Indeed, once over the £100 mark you'd expect to get something reliable.
From memory my blackvue was around £160 2 years ago. So far I've needed it 3 times to produce evidence for 3 accidents I've witnessed and touch wood it's produced the goods on all occasions.
Edited by toon10 on Tuesday 7th February 12:55
MarkRSi said:
Got myself a DDPai camera, stuck it on but it dropped off after a couple days (it's got a 3M sticky pad rather than a suction cap) despite being sure I cleaned my screen before putting it on. Any suggestions? Try cleaning the screen using alcohol or petrol? 
Quick wipe with isopropyl alcohol. You'll almost certainly need a new sticky pad first though.triple5 said:
Shnozz said:
So in the market for a new one now for the Aston. What is the current leader(s)? Tempted by an Aguri Fusion 100 to combine my speed camera detector with my dash cam rather than running one of each.
Blackvue (or similar form factor) tucks up nicely behind the interior light pod. I do get quite a few reflections from the ski slope though, but don't really want to start messing about with polarisers and so on. Trim tool is useful for pushing the wire out of sight.Happy to live with a few reflections for a neat fit.
https://lukashd.co.uk/product/qvia-t790/
https://lukashd.co.uk/product-category/driving-ins...
divetheworld said:
Qvia series by Lukas are brilliant. Not cheap, but they are really reliable and neat and tidy.
https://lukashd.co.uk/product/qvia-t790/
https://lukashd.co.uk/product-category/driving-ins...
Are those cameras at £200 that much better than this:-https://lukashd.co.uk/product/qvia-t790/
https://lukashd.co.uk/product-category/driving-ins...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spy-Tec-G1W-CB-Capacitor-...
at£35?
To a certain extent you get what you pay for with more expensive cameras offering wifi connectivity, better low light performance etc..
I wouldn't pay £200 for that one above though as its only 1080p at 30fps, my dashcam thats coming upto two years is 60fps.
That ddpai m6 a couple of posts above is really good, especially the low light performance, techmoan did quite an idepth review and its still one of the best dashcams around yet costs less than £100
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2016/6/23/dashcam-rev...
I wouldn't pay £200 for that one above though as its only 1080p at 30fps, my dashcam thats coming upto two years is 60fps.
That ddpai m6 a couple of posts above is really good, especially the low light performance, techmoan did quite an idepth review and its still one of the best dashcams around yet costs less than £100
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2016/6/23/dashcam-rev...
The Mad Monk said:
Are those cameras at £200 that much better than this:-
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spy-Tec-G1W-CB-Capacitor-...
at£35?
I have both the G1W and a Blackvue 650 and there is no doubt the Blackvue is far superior but the G1w will do the job but it does struggle in less than ideal conditions https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spy-Tec-G1W-CB-Capacitor-...
at£35?
The Blackvue cameras have never been great. They have a relatively low bit rate, but of course do the job. The Qvia/Lukas stuff have always been great and loads better than Blackvue.
These expensive ones are no doubt not the very best in image quality but you'd be hard pushed to complain. Far from it in fact, they are really good quality, its just the latest ones like the Techmoan one may be better. What you do get is wifi connectivity, great apps and software which is highly configurable and built in low-volt-shutdown. So no need to have a seperate power controller to prevent flat batteries.
But by far the most important thing these have is a very small form factor when installed (as illustrated in triple5's pic). I only bought a Blackvue for this one singular aspect. I knew it was pants. When the Qvia came out I was well happy that there was one with a similar form that actually performed well.
I'd have the Techmoan one in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the fact it hangs down so far.
These expensive ones are no doubt not the very best in image quality but you'd be hard pushed to complain. Far from it in fact, they are really good quality, its just the latest ones like the Techmoan one may be better. What you do get is wifi connectivity, great apps and software which is highly configurable and built in low-volt-shutdown. So no need to have a seperate power controller to prevent flat batteries.
But by far the most important thing these have is a very small form factor when installed (as illustrated in triple5's pic). I only bought a Blackvue for this one singular aspect. I knew it was pants. When the Qvia came out I was well happy that there was one with a similar form that actually performed well.
I'd have the Techmoan one in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the fact it hangs down so far.
divetheworld said:
The Blackvue cameras have never been great. They have a relatively low bit rate, but of course do the job. The Qvia/Lukas stuff have always been great and loads better than Blackvue.
These expensive ones are no doubt not the very best in image quality but you'd be hard pushed to complain. Far from it in fact, they are really good quality, its just the latest ones like the Techmoan one may be better. What you do get is wifi connectivity, great apps and software which is highly configurable and built in low-volt-shutdown. So no need to have a seperate power controller to prevent flat batteries.
But by far the most important thing these have is a very small form factor when installed (as illustrated in triple5's pic). I only bought a Blackvue for this one singular aspect. I knew it was pants. When the Qvia came out I was well happy that there was one with a similar form that actually performed well.
I'd have the Techmoan one in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the fact it hangs down so far.
Not heard of the Qvia before, it does indeed look good. Love the option of built in power management, I have this in my Thinkware F750 and it works brilliantly, in fact the whole two camera set up works brilliantly it's just the form factor of the front camera is a bit pants.These expensive ones are no doubt not the very best in image quality but you'd be hard pushed to complain. Far from it in fact, they are really good quality, its just the latest ones like the Techmoan one may be better. What you do get is wifi connectivity, great apps and software which is highly configurable and built in low-volt-shutdown. So no need to have a seperate power controller to prevent flat batteries.
But by far the most important thing these have is a very small form factor when installed (as illustrated in triple5's pic). I only bought a Blackvue for this one singular aspect. I knew it was pants. When the Qvia came out I was well happy that there was one with a similar form that actually performed well.
I'd have the Techmoan one in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the fact it hangs down so far.
Qvia also offer a two camera set up.................off to look up the reviews.
triple5 said:
Not heard of the Qvia before, it does indeed look good. Love the option of built in power management, I have this in my Thinkware F750 and it works brilliantly, in fact the whole two camera set up works brilliantly it's just the form factor of the front camera is a bit pants.
Qvia also offer a two camera set up.................off to look up the reviews.
Qvia is Lukas.Qvia also offer a two camera set up.................off to look up the reviews.
Just to follow up my own post, I bought one of these off eBay but it's now on its way back for a refund. The device looked OK and would have made a nice stealthy install but with my example at least it was bordering on useless. The Wi-Fi connection to let you connect the app to configure etc was hit and miss. Power it up, press the power button again to initiate Wifi as instructions say, only about 1 in 5 times the WiFi would actually turn on and when it did it often then turned off again within 30 seconds. That wouldn't be quite so bad if the camera recorded effectively but from around 2 hours total driving over about 5 journeys it managed to record less than 5 minutes of footage so utterly pointless unfortunately.
LocoBlade said:
For a more integrated look there's these dash cams that support certain mainly German models
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hidden-WIFI-HD-1080P-12V...
They look a nice neat solution but I'm not sure of their recording quality or reliability, anyone tried them?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hidden-WIFI-HD-1080P-12V...
They look a nice neat solution but I'm not sure of their recording quality or reliability, anyone tried them?
Edited by LocoBlade on Wednesday 8th February 22:13
LittleBigPlanet said:
triple5 said:
Shnozz said:
So in the market for a new one now for the Aston. What is the current leader(s)? Tempted by an Aguri Fusion 100 to combine my speed camera detector with my dash cam rather than running one of each.
untakenname said:
To a certain extent you get what you pay for with more expensive cameras offering wifi connectivity, better low light performance etc..
I wouldn't pay £200 for that one above though as its only 1080p at 30fps, my dashcam thats coming upto two years is 60fps.
That ddpai m6 a couple of posts above is really good, especially the low light performance, techmoan did quite an idepth review and its still one of the best dashcams around yet costs less than £100
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2016/6/23/dashcam-rev...
Not managed to watch the whole of the tech moan review yet, but a question to users. He says explicitly in the text it's not advisable if it's your first dashcam. Why's that? Clarkson mode- How hard can it be?I wouldn't pay £200 for that one above though as its only 1080p at 30fps, my dashcam thats coming upto two years is 60fps.
That ddpai m6 a couple of posts above is really good, especially the low light performance, techmoan did quite an idepth review and its still one of the best dashcams around yet costs less than £100
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2016/6/23/dashcam-rev...
FiF said:
untakenname said:
To a certain extent you get what you pay for with more expensive cameras offering wifi connectivity, better low light performance etc..
I wouldn't pay £200 for that one above though as its only 1080p at 30fps, my dashcam thats coming upto two years is 60fps.
That ddpai m6 a couple of posts above is really good, especially the low light performance, techmoan did quite an idepth review and its still one of the best dashcams around yet costs less than £100
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2016/6/23/dashcam-rev...
Not managed to watch the whole of the tech moan review yet, but a question to users. He says explicitly in the text it's not advisable if it's your first dashcam. Why's that? Clarkson mode- How hard can it be?I wouldn't pay £200 for that one above though as its only 1080p at 30fps, my dashcam thats coming upto two years is 60fps.
That ddpai m6 a couple of posts above is really good, especially the low light performance, techmoan did quite an idepth review and its still one of the best dashcams around yet costs less than £100
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2016/6/23/dashcam-rev...
With the remote button, I don't have my phone wifi'ed to it for instant download during normal use, and I can't see that it saves the short video clip anywhere; I can only find the photo on the SD card. But I'm not a youtube posting DCW so if I ever have anything truly important, I'd be happy enough to fish it off the SD via my PC.
defblade said:
FiF said:
untakenname said:
To a certain extent you get what you pay for with more expensive cameras offering wifi connectivity, better low light performance etc..
I wouldn't pay £200 for that one above though as its only 1080p at 30fps, my dashcam thats coming upto two years is 60fps.
That ddpai m6 a couple of posts above is really good, especially the low light performance, techmoan did quite an idepth review and its still one of the best dashcams around yet costs less than £100
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2016/6/23/dashcam-rev...
Not managed to watch the whole of the tech moan review yet, but a question to users. He says explicitly in the text it's not advisable if it's your first dashcam. Why's that? Clarkson mode- How hard can it be?I wouldn't pay £200 for that one above though as its only 1080p at 30fps, my dashcam thats coming upto two years is 60fps.
That ddpai m6 a couple of posts above is really good, especially the low light performance, techmoan did quite an idepth review and its still one of the best dashcams around yet costs less than £100
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2016/6/23/dashcam-rev...
With the remote button, I don't have my phone wifi'ed to it for instant download during normal use, and I can't see that it saves the short video clip anywhere; I can only find the photo on the SD card. But I'm not a youtube posting DCW so if I ever have anything truly important, I'd be happy enough to fish it off the SD via my PC.
Presumably the intention is that the battery pack is charged up sufficiently during driving, with top ups from the mains when necessary. I'm thinking of a two way extension into the footwell when need to top up the battery pack and still be able to run the Ctek to the vehicle battery. Possibly over thinking this.
That battery pack techmoan reviews is a bit expensive though, 169 gbp!
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