Car cams

[KST80]

Can anyone suggest what's currently best. Having just hit a girl on a motorbike/scooter as she pulled in front of me at some lights and stopped just as they changed and I had started moving. Now got a scrape of front bumbler!!!
I thought she would pull over through the lights but she rode through the next set on red before I thought to get her number.
They should change those signs from think bike to think w@nk3r! Having now suffered damage twice and got nowhere its time for a camera I think.
Thanks.

[vxr2010]

I got one on Ebay it just needed a sd card currently £12.89 , the quality is not fantastic but it shows what happened if you do get the reg

[r8black]

Oh ste did you get a. Number plate to report it kev

[KMud]

There's a thread in general gassing. The 0806 camera was the best budget choice, but it may now be superseded.

[KST80]

r8black said:

Oh ste did you get a. Number plate to report it kev

No mate, she looked around, I though she was going to stop and she took off going through a red light before I could engage brain. Having lost out when a sodding lorry threw aggregate at me I need a camera for evidence.

[jameshsv]

Should of done a proper job and run straight over her.

[stevieturbo]

I have a round bodied cheap camera, 720HD in my van, and for most part it's pretty good.

I recently bought 2 x 1080P cameras, one from Amazon and one egay, externally you'd think they are the same. One was £27 ( needed speedy delivery ) the other £10 from China.

The Amazon one was boxed, better USB lead, but looked just the same, same brackets, camera etc.
It also seems to have a better quality picture.

But really, neither seem any better than the older 720 one I have.

Where they all fall down is at night, they're all crap.

No idea if the likes of a Roadhawk or Blackvue would be any better.

But a proper accident recorder, with GPS etc would be nice.

[SturdyHSV]

Run her down then get her number? That's am interesting chat up tactic, but it might just be crazy enough to work!

[KST80]

jameshsv said:

Should of done a proper job and run straight over her.

If I had roared off(which of course I would never do!) she would have been pushed sideways up the road, much worse.
However at least if have known who she was, with a video as well next time.

[stevieturbo]

I just did a side by side test with two of the ones I have.

One is this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251630813763?_trksid=p20...

And I can safely say it is crap. Picture almost always looks out of focus and blurred. No way 1080 HD...or any HD, or even low res.

The older one I have is same as this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HD-720P-Night-Vision-In-...

The image is far better...but one letdown is the wide angle lens. So this distorts the view a little of oncoming traffic.

SO the viewing angle of the 1080 is better, it's just crap overall.

Strangely, I bought this one for a camera to monitor some property

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LEBEA0K?psc=...

It looks same as the egay one, and physically it is, brackets etc. But it was boxed, 12v lead was different and onscreen info is different when it boots up.
I'm only using it as a static camera, but video quality ( through double glazing window ) looks better than the other two
Still not outstanding but it's looking through a window with rain on it, so that will affect it.
Might swap them and try it in the van

[fastbikes76]

I have this in our VXR8 and the quality is excellent !!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Transcend-16GB-DrivePro-...

[extra330]

i have this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HMNFWYW?psc=...
GW1H
bought one from ebay and it was a cheap chinky copy, st
this one from amazon is superb quality replays and seemless looping, reasonable sound.
that impressed bought another two, one for son one for daughter.
Must use a good quality memory card though, not the ones on ebay for a fiver, tried them
32gig max, which is what i use
hope that helps

[chrisb0]

I have one of these http://vision-tek.co.uk/collections/vehicle-camera...
Not the cheapest available but supplied from UK with 12 month warranty and UK support and they include SD Card, and have a GPS option.
They do work well at night.

I must be honest at this stage, the company is owned by my son so I might be just a little biased
But they are quite good.

P.s Mr moderator don't shout at me for advertising its in reply to a direct request for information

Edited by chrisb0 on Sunday 30th November 20:05

[bimbleuk]

I'm using an 0803 myself.

Go to techmoan.com for a load of video reviews on various cameras.

[stevieturbo]

Odd that the cheap chinese ones I bought claim 1080...yet nowhere in their menu's is an option for true 1080HD operation ?

After some googling yesterday, I've ordered one of these

http://dod-tech.co.uk/ls360w.html

http://dashboardcamerareviews.com/

The DOD cameras seem to get good reviews night and day, perhaps less so for their latest 460W according to Amazon reviews so I opted for the 360W, and will get a GPS antenna for it too.

[bimbleuk]

^^^ Another trick is to double up 30 fps and claim 60 fps operation. You only can really rely on a decent review.

[Granby]

bimbleuk said:

Go to techmoan.com for a load of video reviews on various cameras.

Agreed, he's done a load of dash cam reviews

[stevieturbo]

stevieturbo said:

Odd that the cheap chinese ones I bought claim 1080...yet nowhere in their menu's is an option for true 1080HD operation ?

After some googling yesterday, I've ordered one of these

http://dod-tech.co.uk/ls360w.html

http://dashboardcamerareviews.com/

The DOD cameras seem to get good reviews night and day, perhaps less so for their latest 460W according to Amazon reviews so I opted for the 360W, and will get a GPS antenna for it too.

The camera arrived a day or two ago, only getting a free minute now.

Compared to any I've had before, which to be fair where really cheap crap anyway, the LS360W is outstanding.
Excellent picture quality, and night time use is truly remarkable. It sees better than I do !!

Daytime may not be GoPro quality, but it is bloody good.

It has 1080, 720 and 720 60fps options. I'm just using 720 as I dont have any HD equipment anyway, so no sense in 1080 as it just takes up more card space.
720 is excellent anyway. It's leaps and bounds above the cheaper camera that also claimed 720.

Havent tried it on 60fps to see what it looks like yet though

[stevieturbo]

Here are two night videos. I wont even bother with any from the £10 China camera as it is just rubbish.

First clip is this camera I've had for a couple of years, and claims 720. It does save file sizes similar to the new LS360W, so fills the card the same.
During the daytime it is decent, at night poor.

Both clips have been opened and shortened in Movie Maker and 1080P format selected. So original image quality may not be identical. Both cameras are set to 720HD. First one includes a wker on a bike who just cycles out without looking at a crossing where his light is red.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj3i7zD5VXY&li...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HD-720P-Night-Vision-In-...

Second clip is same location, same sort of time the following night but the LS360W

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwPFzaUyTIs&li...

[stevieturbo]

Again both videos shortened with Movie Maker and saved as 1080. Despite this, it seems to reduce quality overall from the original. More apparent with the LS360W than it is with the already lesser quality 720P camera

Daylight videos. LS360W on the way to get buns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLB1--fkErM&li...

Daylight 720P from a while back, some lane discipline awesomeness, remember it's speed that kills, not ****tards driving like this apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBod_F0RDI&fe...