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car/bike video cam

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:52 pm
by blade828
Iv'e been looking around for a bullet style camera for my old man to mount on his suzuki hyabusa to record some rides. From what iv'e found, you need a little spy camera which then needs to be plugged into a video camera so it will record. Is there any of those camera's that can record without the video cam?

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:00 pm
by MART
You plug the camera into a hard drive , this records video , where going to do a similiar thing with our 4by's one underneath , one front , one in car , pencil type camera's , then download to PC as external hard-drive and burn to DVD , Cheers Paul.

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:06 pm
by blade828
do you have any links to any camera and hard drive set ups? How do you power the camera and h/d?

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:52 pm
by j-top paj
yeh any links? i wouldnt mind having something like this set up in my GU

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:27 am
by zagan
Australian company action cam or something like that.

Bullet cam, strong enough to allow a 4wd to drive over it and not be crushed.

They have a plastic box which you connect the bullet cam to a handy cam and you use the handy cam to record with, this box is again crush proof and vibration proof.

Made mainly for sony type handy cams though.

No good for a JVC enviro HDD cam.

Cheapest kit was $280 then $340 then $400 there's 3 kits each a better cam plus extras like battery pack for longer recording times etc.

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:52 am
by trains
google a search for hyabuska 320km/hr

great vid ;)

scares me every time I watch it.

Trains

no I dont have a link

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:02 am
by blade828
I have found this one but its a bit expensive for what i want
http://www.cameraaction.com.au/products ... 04&dept=64

And there are these ones, but you need a seperate video recorder which i dont really want to get. http://www.helmetcameras.com.au/

Surely I can buy a bullet type camera that has its own recording function that i just need to connect to a H/D somehow (like MART suggests)

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:33 pm
by blade828
well for anyone interested, i think i will be getting this.
http://www.cameraaction.com.au/products ... 95&dept=64
records straight to a 2gig SD card and is only 200 bucks.

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:40 pm
by Ruggers
let us know how it goes that excatly what ive been looking for as the jvc hdd its a bit to good to put in the mud racer. ill wait till the water proof one comes though.

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:23 am
by Pinball
at 640x480 you may be dissappointed with the results....

similar things available on ebay, we picked up a "Tony Hawk" branded unit for $50.00 from Myers a little while back, very similar...

http://www.pointnshoot.org/modules.php? ... cle&sid=49

good for web based apps or you tube... not so good for video night or production quality stuff.

you want at least 480 tv lines for production quality, once again chase ebay, this'll give you a lead to some companies... Sony seem to be the maker of choice for the actual chips...

Spock

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:52 am
by lay80n
Check the ads in a couple of road/trail bike mags. I

http://www.twenty20camera.com/

Layto....

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:43 pm
by AFeral
Just be careful not to get caught doing silly things and videoing as the police can sieze the tape and use it against you

Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 12:02 pm
by LincolnBlack
Something like this might work for high res:

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Default.aspx?CatID=1209

just plug a pencil camera composite video out into the input of this device. I don't see why it wouldn't work. I'm sure this thing could run off 12v if properly transformed.