video camera

[jonansett]

Hi, just thinking of getting a new small vid camera, which i can save data to a computer, and link up in a car so the camera itself can be behind a seat or something and have a remote small camera that actually does the filming? I think i have seem something like it at a track day recently... any one done anything like it?

[Guest]

Rf concepts are a good supplier of bullet cams......... you will need any vid cam to have an analogue in to recieve it .

you can also get recorders which capture straight to a memory card now , no moving parts ,also good for ahigh vibration setups.

[adhawkins]

you can also get recorders which capture straight to a memory card now , no moving parts ,also good for ahigh vibration setups.

I have a Nisis DV6. Cost me about 90 quid or so from e-bay. Stores up to something like 30 mins of decent resolution footage onto a media card.

Coupled with a 10 quid clamp from Jessops, it's fine for road use, but you might want to get a 'proper' motorsport clamp for track days / competition.

Andy

[JeffC]

I used my camcorder strapped to the roll bar last year, and got some decent  footage, but wind noise drowns out the engine note so am  thinking of a bullet cam to plug into it as it has the input socket, on a bullet cam subject What is a decent make/model/price to get, anything recomended ?

[pistonbroke]

you dont need a bullet cam to get shut of yer wind noise .

you could just use a remote microphone , stick it inside the footwell somewhere then the engine noise gets taped .

otherwise a decent bullet c/w mic about £100

here you go

[dern]

Is there any kind of bullet cam that will plug into a laptop and use that as a capture device?

Regards,

Mark

[Guest]

bullet cam gives an ANALOGUE  output , you can capture from an analogue device with an impage capture card ,but thats not really a good way of doing it .

And running a lappy in the westy ,i don't think it would last long .

[Molydood]

I'm doing this at the moment. I just decided on the camera, Canon MV500i, £100 from ebay, analogue input included. The other option is an archos device, archos AV500 gives many hours of recorded footage (30 hours-100 hours depending on hard drive size) but this is quite expensive (£300-450) but the advatage is that you can record from TV also and use it as a video recorder, and watch things on the move, and the quality is excellent (almost DVD). I went the camcorder route purley for money reasons, but I would like the extra functionality of the archos.

Regarding bullet cams, yep, RF concepts are the ones, but if you want to try a USA company, they seem to have quite a few out there that specialise and have better casings/durablity it seems. You can also get wireless ones, but the quality does not seem to be as good IMO.

Im going the Canon camcorder + rrf concepts route, and that should give good quality videos, all in for £200 ish.

[David Alexander]

I have an Archos AV400 which I connect to a bullet cam.  When on the road this captures some great images.  However when I took it in the track last year there was a great deal of interference.  Vertical colour lines which grew in intensity the longer the ride continued.  I have put this down to the high revs producing an electrical signal which interferes with the recording.  Has anyone else had this problem?

[Boomy]

Anyone tried this sort of thing?

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[jonansett]

That looks quite good.... altho im wanting a handheld so i can take on holiday etc too......

[gee_fin]

Generally, all that helmet cams accomplish is making your intended audience sick...

Solid state cameras are the way forward but are lots of money right now. At this present time, the best bet is still a cheap DV camera with analogue in (e.g. the Canon range) and a decent bullet cam. Put the DV cam in a soft pelcan-esque box, mount the bullet cam and away you go.

Having had various trips *ruined* by non-working video cameras I've learnt my lessons...

- mounting the camera to the roll cage will kill it. It might not take a day, it might not take a week, but it will kill it.

- mounting the camera in the open air stream can frequently mist it up killing it or at best ruining the footage.

- hard drive style recorders are useless as they will skip and jump and cannot encode quickly enough to be of use for anything other than internet quality footage.

Anyways, the best site for in-car DV related help is Jackal's Forge...

Graeme.

[The Great Fandango]

You heard it here boys... If you want some decent quality recordings it's gotta be a bullet camera hooked upto a analogue input camcorder.

RF Concepts were very good and quick in supplying me their "package 6" although I'm not sure it's actually any better than their cheaper packages.

Bullet cams can be taped anywhere - had some great footage last year from the nose cone area.

The microphone can be taped anywhere, and the camcorder packed away in a padded box.

[pistonbroke]

and the camcorder packed away in a padded box.

which makes controling the thing a tad difficult unless you have a wired remote  

[gee_fin]

LAN-C cables are the way forward for remote usage...