Dash Cameras

[Pints]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Just copy off the bits you want and delete the rest. It could drop you in it if you've been a silly boy but on balance I think I'd want it.

Would the police be allowed to confiscate it?

[EddieFelson]

paulcdb said:

i'm surprised no-one has made one yet with dual camera's which are separate to the main recorder.

Permanently fix it in the boot with live feed and then you'd be able to hide the cameras a lot better from prying eyes but all the ones i've found have to be stuck on the window so only a matter of time before someone takes a fancy to it around here.

I know the 1 time i forget to remove it would be the 1 time some scrote spots it!

A gap in the market, just needs decent HD video and be cheaper than the Roadhawk/Blackvue and it would be perfect.

[LoonR1]

Pints said:

Would the police be allowed to confiscate it?

Depends on the situation but as a matter of routine the answer is "no".

Insurance are unlikely to have an issue with your speed too unless it is clearly excessive for the conditions and a direct contributor to the crash.

[standardman]

I find it strange that often whenever we see footage of Dash cams posted everyone seems to look at the footage and feel the OP is to blame. Is there a trend as to why people get cams ??? Its actually the OP that cannot drive but just cannot see it ???? (-;. With the help of the footage we can all confirm they cannot drive and they are in fact were to blame !.

[p4cks]

standardman said:

I find it strange that often whenever we see footage of Dash cams posted everyone seems to look at the footage and feel the OP is to blame. Is there a trend as to why people get cams ??? Its actually the OP that cannot drive but just cannot see it ???? (-;. With the help of the footage we can all confirm they cannot drive and they are in fact were to blame !.

I don't understand your post. In fact I find it absurd. Having fallen victim to a tt crashing in to me and then denying it, I found myself looking at dash cams which in my experience would have irrefutably proved that said tt did in fact crash in to me. The only reason that I didn't get one is that I couldn't find one that I could hardwire to the car.

[SmoothCriminal]

I think these are a great idea and I have one but its a pita having to take it out connect it turn it on mount it then when you've finished do the whole lot in reverse an integrated system would be so much better.

[blueheron]

With say a Roadhawk, what happens if you happen to witness an accident, your camera records it and you want to offer the clip to the victim. Is there a way you can save the footage to stop it being overwritten? E.g. a button that manually activates the 20 seconds feature.

Or is it a case of turning the cam off, taking it home and editing it yourself?

[NiceCupOfTea]

Most of them record in blocks of 30secs to 2 minutes. Each one is saved to the memory card, and when the card is full it starts wiping over the oldest files first.

The one that I linked to on page 1 has a button you can press (or a shock sensor) that saves the most recent "chunk" to a separate area on the card that doesn't get wiped over.

There are lots of phone programs that work in the same way: on Android "DailyRoads Voyager", and "AutoBoy BlackBox" are rather good, but the usual problems with a ravenous hunger for power and all the hassle with putting the phone in a cradle, etc.

[Davie]

Agree on the comment regarding a seperate hard drive and remote cameras rather than have something stuck to the window which would need removed after every trip to save somebody removing it for you. A small bullet camera mounted front and rear, somewehere covert seems like a much better option. That lead me down the fully integrated bulletcam route, eg something along the lines of this...

http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/dogcam-bullet-hd-came...

Seems a rather inexpensive option (and there are no doubt cheaper options out there) and seems to do capable of reording enough date for the average trip/commute into work? Plus it would be suitable for track days and so on so seems alot more versatile then the likes of a Roadhawk.... aside for the lack of GPS date obviously.

[RZ1]

Just looking at these on ebay, why do some seem to have such huge suction mounts, i want something discrete so i can leave it in all the time

[Eighteeteewhy]

RZ1 said:

Just looking at these on ebay, why do some seem to have such huge suction mounts, i want something discrete so i can leave it in all the time

I've just ordered this one, looks good vfm and isn't too big on the screen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X16kiyDtTms&fea...

[RZ1]

Eighteeteewhy said:

I've just ordered this one, looks good vfm and isn't too big on the screen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X16kiyDtTms&fea...

Thats perfect as it has a small mount, where dd you get it from, link??

[NiceCupOfTea]

RZ1 said:

Eighteeteewhy said:

I've just ordered this one, looks good vfm and isn't too big on the screen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X16kiyDtTms&fea...

Thats perfect as it has a small mount, where dd you get it from, link??

I think that's the one I linked to in an earlier post:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dual-Lens-Mini-HD-Car-DV...

Is that the one atty?

Might order one tonight.

Only thing it is missing is GPS.

Just a shame they don't have *two* plug in cameras: hard wire a power feed to the glovebox, external gps aerial and 2x discreet cameras and you're laughing!

Now, in dreamland, another internal camera and a mobile phone SIM so if the car is stolen it can transmit it's location and pics of the perp

Might cost more than £60 though!

[RZ1]

NiceCupOfTea said:

I think that's the one I linked to in an earlier post:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dual-Lens-Mini-HD-Car-DV...

Is that the one atty?

Might order one tonight.

Only thing it is missing is GPS.

Just a shame they don't have *two* plug in cameras: hard wire a power feed to the glovebox, external gps aerial and 2x discreet cameras and you're laughing!

Now, in dreamland, another internal camera and a mobile phone SIM so if the car is stolen it can transmit it's location and pics of the perp

Might cost more than £60 though!

The link you have given is the same one as in the video, but cant seem to find them on ebay, the link says item is no longer available

[NiceCupOfTea]

RZ1 said:

The link you have given is the same one as in the video, but cant seem to find them on ebay, the link says item is no longer available

Arse. I've had that link open in a window for a while... Have a search around, on his website review of it there is a link to an ebay search which is where I got that one.

eighteeteewhy!

[Eighteeteewhy]

This is the one I have bought, slightly different to in the vid. Black case and the rear camera looks a bit better.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-0-LCD-Dual-Lens-Car-Ve...

Edited by Eighteeteewhy on Friday 5th October 17:53

[Russ35]

paulcdb said:

i'm surprised no-one has made one yet with dual camera's which are separate to the main recorder.

Permanently fix it in the boot with live feed and then you'd be able to hide the cameras a lot better from prying eyes but all the ones i've found have to be stuck on the window so only a matter of time before someone takes a fancy to it around here.

I know the 1 time i forget to remove it would be the 1 time some scrote spots it!

The Roadhawk RH-2 Professional does this, has an external box where you can plug a USB pen in, but can only take up to 16GB, where as it can handle up to a 32GB SDHC if put in the camera unit.

[iPlod999]

If you have an iPhone. I cannot recommend the Witness Driving app.

For 69p it's the dog dangly bits.

http://youtu.be/g4HS2fiG1J8

[Jakg]

SmoothCriminal said:

I think these are a great idea and I have one but its a pita having to take it out connect it turn it on mount it then when you've finished do the whole lot in reverse an integrated system would be so much better.

Mines always in the car, mounted to the windscreen out of the way. It's hard-wired to the car (all cables hidden), whenever the ignition comes on so does my dash camera (I have 2 - one in the front, one in the rear). When it's full (32GB card in each one means ~11 hours of video) it deletes the oldest video and it turns off automatically when I turn the ignition off.

Don't ever have to touch it.

And it only cost me ~£40, plus ~£6 for a decent mount.

Front one is hidden up behind the rear view mirror (can't see it from the drivers seat)



Rear one is hidden behind the drivers side rear passenger headrest

[CoolHands]

I'm thinking of...............












not crashing.