Vid cams

RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

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Wondering if anybody has found a magical bolt-in vid cam that is reasonably affordable, yet has the capacity for long footage. Last two races I've used a little $100 iFlip, that's actually worked pretty well... but I believe it has a 1hr (or maybe even just 30 min) max recording time.
I'm sure nobody would want to actually watch all of, say, 1:30 of the inide of my ride... doubt I'd even want to re-live it... but you never know when in that time will be the really good/funny shot.
 
I had looked at some of these for some of the race rigs, but they were just really expensive.

I'd be interested to know of some as well.
 
My Sony Digital Camera "Cyber Shot" takes very nice video, So you might see if your Picture camera has that opition, I have a 4 gig card that holds 2 hours of video. And its super easy to transfer to a laptop. Has a tri pod mount to adapt to a rig mount. The card was under $40, the camera was a under couple hundred. Works great for my wheeling videos.

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Hm some places only like $125, not too bad. Wonder how the quality is? As long as it's VGA or so it'd match the iFlip. Which BTW is a neat camera, BUT the upright orientation makes mounting a little awkward.
 
burrellsjeep said:
This was shot with my camera (Sample of video quality)
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The real question is, how does it do when being shaken violently for an hour? Most regular digi cams can do this now, as long as they can take the larger mem cards (my wife's $100 Fuji would) buuuuut if it were to fall of the mount going over a hill, it would be toast, too, and i'd be in hot water.

I have an old Canon cyberShot that does vid too, I need to find out what the max memory on it is 'cause it might work and if it dies, no big tragedy.
 
RatLabGuy said:
The real question is, how does it do when being shaken violently for an hour? Most regular digi cams can do this now, as long as they can take the larger mem cards (my wife's $100 Fuji would) buuuuut if it were to fall of the mount going over a hill, it would be toast, too, and i'd be in hot water.
I have an old Canon cyberShot that does vid too, I need to find out what the max memory on it is 'cause it might work and if it dies, no big tragedy.
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Might look a making a "custom" mount for it. I am sure you could come up with something. BTW my kids are hell on this one and it keeps on going.

Edit: I saw some cyber shot cannons with 2 gig cards
 
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