Bulletcams/recorders again

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

WTF is that Mr Northy ... please please don't tell me you went round the track like that!!

Nah, the rack comes off in about a minute. Thank **** It was full of parts and tools there, that's the knockhill paddock. Who needs a van? But it'd be funny to give it a go on track with it on, I could add it to my paddock chat "Do you have wets on wheels?" "No, but I do have heated grips". "Do you have a laptimer beacon?" "No, but I do have a 12" meat feast" Pizza, that is.

I'm kind of shying away from the hard drive approach, not to say it doesn't work but I don't need the capacity and to make it worthwhile you need a really good camera too, it seems, so it'd probably bust my budget. There's that many options that I'm going to arbitrarily wipe some out, and that's a place to start I reckon.

I don't think a tank mount would work with my screen, and I like tank bags too much for days out riding.

Still leaning towards a standalone camera rather than a digital recorder, but they both have their advantages.

In his defence, the speed was down because as you come out of that corner you pull straight into the exit of the track.........

Regardless of quality and vibration issues, I tend to regard anything I strap to my trackbike as having to accept it is 'disposable' ... so strapping a ~£150 camera rig up to it is gonna seem much more attractive than strapping a £300+ kit to it

Generally a hard drive will always been cheaper then solid state in capacity costs if you need a lot of space and are planning on getting alot of footage. But your much more at risk of failure or loss of data in a prang.
This is why the ATC2K is apealing, it seems to do a reasonalbe job for most people. I would say HD is the way most will need to go if they need more, Solid state drive are pricy tech, but if you can get a Sata HD in your recorder then give that a try as I have tested these to destruction and found them very robust. Even to the point I opened the case and it still spun up.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Spent £99 on a 4Kam camera.

Spent £200 on a Cowon A3 60GB media player.

Hi mate, what cheaper alternatives would there be to the Cowon A3that you bought? ie, something that records at the same quality but maybe not so many other features or as big HDD? I want to take good quality vids but probably only an hour or so of recording at one time.

Thanks,
Matt

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by cartwrim

Hi mate, what cheaper alternatives would there be to the Cowon A3that you bought? ie, something that records at the same quality but maybe not so many other features or as big HDD? I want to take good quality vids but probably only an hour or so of recording at one time.

Thanks,
Matt

I got mine in from the US so it was cheaper - buying in the UK you are looking at £300 for the 30GB A3

The reason it can record at such a high res/bitrate is due to the processor in it which is a Dual-Core ARM which has one core optimised for AV coding/decoding.

Really dont know of anything lower in price that records as well as it does.

£280 On Amazon for the Cowon A3 60Gb...

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by rigor

£280 On Amazon for the Cowon A3 60Gb...

Thanks for the correction of my typo

The other importer has the 80Gb one for £299, the 60GB one for £269 and the 30GB one for £229

[Sid Squid]

I know precisely sod all about this subject, so I'm posting simply to vouch for the excellent quality of the camera and recorder/player that Dave has. Having seen a few other such cameras and related devices I wasn't expecting much - when I first saw it I was surprised at the picture, it's really very good.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Thanks for the correction of my typo

The other importer has the 80Gb one for £299, the 60GB one for £269 and the 30GB one for £229

It's only 'cause that price had stuck in my head 'cause I may have been looking at a cam setup .....