In-car video camera?

7dayshop.com have them as do ebay - look for 'helmet cams'.
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Grimly Curmudgeon
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Go and read what the Roadhawk does from the link you were given a few posts ago. It does exactly what you want and more, and if it senses deceleration (or the driver presses a button) automatically stores the last few minutes which *isn't* overwritten. It has a GPS sensor so knows the speeds involved etc etc.

I'm considering one myself also...

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AlanD

Have a look here:

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've used them for covert cameras and in-vehicle cameras in the past. They have good specification units.

I'd look at something like this that can record up to 32 hours of

640x480 video.

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't buy anything with less than 640x480 video, the images are next to useless. QVGA (320x240) isn't up to the job at all and the cameras are a waste of money.

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Steve Firth

Mark wrote: [snip]

FWIW I use three trail cams to keep an eye on my property. The are "Little Acorn" 8MP cameras with infra-red flash. They can also record 640x480 video. The flash is invisible, some trail cams show a red glow.

The cameras record to SDHC cards and are happy with 16GB cards (largest that I have tried). They take 4x AA batteries internally but they also have an external pack that is used as the wall/post mount that accepts 4x AABatteries giving 2-4 months operation on a set of alkaline batteries. So far all they have caught are the wild boar on the land, which TBH is a relief.

Not cheap at £100 each but I found cheap cams to have multiple faults such as poor PIRs, visible flash, no video capability and resolution so poor that they could not be used as evidence.

Good trail cams have three PIRs to detect approaches from the side and delay the shutter until the object is in the field of vision of the camera. Single PIR cameras are great for taking photos of something just leaving the scene (lots of pictures of tails or the backs of fly tippers).

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Steve Firth

I use the Sentient one that Maplin used to sell. Ebay item number 380366422560

Only this evening I had a near miss when some numpty decided to turn left from lane three at the entrance to a roundabout.

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longer available from Maplin but it has the obvious forward facing camera as well an internal view of the car. Has GPS and logs speed etc.

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Periproct

Out of curiosity do yours hold the internal batteries in firmly? Mine had a weak clip on the internal flap which meant occasionally it would break contact or eject the cells when you hinged it open to retrieve a card. This became a PIA so I drilled a small hole < 1mm in the case and made a pin from thin brass wire I had lying about. This keeps the internal flap in place when the hinged base is open. A previous poster mentioned the delay with a trail camera so it is worth mentioning that the Little Acorn has side sensors which prepare he main one to trigger so the delay is less than on some.

G.Harman

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damduck-egg

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Thanks, I'll remember that if I get problems.

Yes, I tried to explain that. Probably not well enough.

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Steve Firth

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