Helmet cam - I fall off alot

SuperSimon12

I have decided to get a helmet cam to capture some of my falls for posterity.

Does anyone have any recommendations on a good setup? Obviously I want to keep the cost down so the wife doesn't bend the ear too much, but I don't want to compromise quality to save a few quid.

I have looked at the camera below, œ100 is cheap but I expect the quality is below par.

http://www.firebox.com/product/1732?src ... id=gadgets

Apart from that it seems about œ400 for a dogcam (or the like as alot seem to be 'used by the BBC')and something to record on.

Any help welcome.

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randomize

don't know if it's any good but what about his - http://www.sports-cameras.co.uk/tonyhawkcam.shtml

geordiebiker

s'posed to be really good and waterproof too. i want one....

rubber side up

in general, the more you spend, the better it will be. buying something "because its cheap" will only end in poor quality videos.

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SuperSimon12

The sample videos for the tonyhawk camera look amazing, but I bet they are from the other pricier products. The samples look to good to be true

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Noodoo

I was looking into the ActionCam and the Tony Hawk camera.

The Action Cam seems better quality (both build and video quality).

However, a few things struck me.

The best resolution is only 640x480
There is no screen on them. (So you could end up just filming the floor because you can't tell what the camera is pointing at exactly until you view the footage)
What is the point of recording something in poor quality? Surely if we're going to go to the trouble of getting cool videos, we should at least be able to watch them back in decent quality?


To that end, I'm on the look out for a decent priced video camera with analogue video inputs and a DogCam.....

breezer

640*480 is fine. PAL ie our TV resolution is only 720*576 so its not far off that. Ensure they do 25-30 frames per second. Ignore anything thats less than this or only does 320*240 resolution or something. Some sort of image stabilisation would be useful for when riding else it will become a jerk fest and not that good kind

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Jimbob_no5

tony hawks head cam fairly cheap good quality large memory can store upto an hour of video

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breezer

They are only 320*240 when used by themselves and it doesnt say the frame rate either

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mbukjames

I agree. The Tony Hawk cam looks like its very good value for money through those sample videos.

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SuperSimon12

mbukjames - THe video samples are the same whatever camera setup you pick form the site so I bet they are from the high end stuff, not the cheapy tonyhawk one. Would be nice to know for sure.

But they do give great quality, especially on the falling off demo which is just what i want!



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acac

hi there i bought this cam of fire box its good little cam but i see chainrection cycles doing it now for 94.99 with free p&p if you send me your email i send you alittle clip that i done from my bike

covert

Maybe this?
looks good quality and used by motors TV.



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TSawyer

I asked this a while ago and was told the Tony Hawk one was crap.

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gibby12100

Here is the quality of the Tony Hawks, and Here is the quality of the ATC 2000 (which is rated the best withour AV input at this price

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Jonnyb07

Ebay.

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abul

if you fall off a lot wont you break it after one or two knocks?

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Pigchops

If it is advertised as footage from the Tony Hawke cam then by law it should be footage from the Tony Hawke cam or else the company could face a possible claim for misrepresentation. Just a thought...

Anonymous

Ah, but that is on YouTube, which is horrendously compressed!
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Here is the quality of the Tony Hawks, and Here is the quality of the ATC 2000 (which is rated the best withour AV input at this price

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breezer

The info for the tony hawke one says its only 15fps so a waste of time and the other one seems to have no or very little image stabilisation. (Youtube compression is irrelevant for my points there). I have yet to see a cheap and good quality solution for this sort of thing. In my competition car I run a normal size dv camera on a mount which is fine but obviously not really pratical to have a massive camera like that strapped to your helmet!

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TSawyer

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=19243

Thats the Oregon Scientific I think. Does that record onto internal memory or onto a camera? I'm really crap with this stuff.

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SuperSimon12

acac - My e-mail is s_j_down@hotmail.com.

Thanks for that, it will be great to see actual footage before buying.

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SuperSimon12

abdul - I think I am going to have to stump up for a pricey setup that is durable as well.

All the cheaper ones seem to be ok, but not the quality I want.

Now all I need is a cast iron reason to convince the wife!

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breezer

Tsawyer "With a 2Gb (maximum) SD card, recording times at highest resolution are approximately 60 mins" uses a SD card like a lot of cameras, 2Gb one probably cost you œ15 or something off ebay

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