A little video...

[snotrag]

3 MX5's, an £11.99 camera and half an hour learning how to use Windows Movie maker and Youtube.

Quality is a bit poorer than I expected, but thats youtube for you, it looks and sounds miles better on my PC.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V31JDe5Q7VM

[JFReturns]

Sound quality isn't bad!

[Howard-]

Are these the uber cheap chinese keyring cameras from eBay? I recognise the time stamp

I bought two of these Gonna strap them to the MX5 for some split screen multi-angle footage at some point

[Evangelion]

You have a nice exhaust note there!

(I was complimented on mine recently by a fellow '5 owner, interesting as mine is standard as far as I know.)

[snotrag]

Thats the one. Mines the 'spycam' version,



but the keychain ones are exactly the same internals in a different moulding, I beleive.

I've tried a number of mounting points, including on my Roll bar - it looks good. The problem with moutning it forward facing or on top of the car is all you get is dreadfully loud wind noise. By moutning it rear facing you get the nice exhaust sound. I bought it as a pre-cursor to buying a 'good' camera, something I've always fancied.

Edited by snotrag on Wednesday 7th April 09:32

[GravelBen]

Pretty good quality considering the size/cost of the camera! You're putting ideas into my head now, my previous videos have been filmed handheld by passengers and end up a little shaky...

http://vimeo.com/8306432

Edited by GravelBen on Wednesday 7th April 09:48

[Howard-]

You can fix the wind noise to some extent by putting things like tape or a bit of cotton wool over the mic opening

[snotrag]

I've tried that - the problem is, the camera is so small (it really is smaller than you think) that i dont think it has a specifc Mic opening. I've experimented by lowing down the various holes in the body and they all give wind noise. I think i'd have to make a kind of cradle, and just have the lens peeping out.

[Howard-]

Hmm.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

This is the one I have

[Gizmo!]

That's really good. I wonder what the sound quality is like (wind noise etc) if you fix one to the sunvisor?

[snotrag]

Gizmo! said:

That's really good. I wonder what the sound quality is like (wind noise etc) if you fix one to the sunvisor?

I'll try it tonight.

[Gizmo!]

snotrag said:

Gizmo! said:

That's really good. I wonder what the sound quality is like (wind noise etc) if you fix one to the sunvisor?

I'll try it tonight.

Forward facing, I mean. Just thinking it's pretty sheltered, and you wouldn't be able to see the speedo in the videos...

[Dan_1981]

Thats a lovely looking white one following you Simon.....

[roverspeed]

Ohh will have to splash out on one of these,

What sort of size SD card would you recommend for decent length vids?

I would love to use this on the car, mountain bike and even the RC Boat if I am feeling brave.

Was dissapointed no one got the tail out considering it was wet. Not that I would condone that sort of thing on Public roads..............

[GravelBen]

roverspeed said:

Was dissapointed no one got the tail out considering it was wet. Not that I would condone that sort of thing on Public roads..............

Was just thinking that.