GoPro HD or other dash cam anyone?
06-05-2011, 05:00 PM
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I am curious if anyone here does their daily drive with a dash cam by any chance. I found this post by xcntrk from last month but this is all external to the car and seems he might just add it on for specific/special purposes:
https://5series.net/forums/topic/111...amera-testing/
Does anyone here have a cam that they keep in their dash to record their daily driving? I've been thinking about doing this for a while. It'd be novel for recording your driving in general but I am interested in doing it in the event someone does something stupid in front of me -- involving me or not. I've watched enough Liveleak (and witnessed a few horrifc accidents) to see people do some pretty jacked up stuff and having a camera recording can be invaluable. In particular there is this one video where a guy purposely dives on a guy's hood.. extremely hilarious.. but if the guy didn't have a video he'd probably be out a lot of $$$.
Anyone do this currently? I think the GoPros can be put into an auxiliary power source that starts with your car and will record and auto-overwrite the oldest video. My only real fear is someone smashing the window to grab it, which would defeat the whole purpose. I think it'd be too much of a pain to take it down and put it back every time you get in/out of the car.
https://5series.net/forums/topic/111...amera-testing/
Does anyone here have a cam that they keep in their dash to record their daily driving? I've been thinking about doing this for a while. It'd be novel for recording your driving in general but I am interested in doing it in the event someone does something stupid in front of me -- involving me or not. I've watched enough Liveleak (and witnessed a few horrifc accidents) to see people do some pretty jacked up stuff and having a camera recording can be invaluable. In particular there is this one video where a guy purposely dives on a guy's hood.. extremely hilarious.. but if the guy didn't have a video he'd probably be out a lot of $$$.
Anyone do this currently? I think the GoPros can be put into an auxiliary power source that starts with your car and will record and auto-overwrite the oldest video. My only real fear is someone smashing the window to grab it, which would defeat the whole purpose. I think it'd be too much of a pain to take it down and put it back every time you get in/out of the car.
06-05-2011, 06:15 PM
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Yea I have heard nothing but good things about them and that they come with all kinds of mounts that are 100% solid so you can mount the camera to virtually anything anywhere. Is what I said about it recording over the oldest stuff once it's full true? E.g. if you fill up the storage it won't stop and will just overwrite/delete the oldest and start recording new again?
06-05-2011, 06:31 PM
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Yea I have heard nothing but good things about them and that they come with all kinds of mounts that are 100% solid so you can mount the camera to virtually anything anywhere. Is what I said about it recording over the oldest stuff once it's full true? E.g. if you fill up the storage it won't stop and will just overwrite/delete the oldest and start recording new again?
07-04-2011, 07:54 PM
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I've thought about this in the past, and think its a great idea. Let me know what you find out, its a good investment. It could of saved me $1000's when someone hit me, and his insurance ended up siding with him.
07-04-2011, 08:24 PM
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Interesting I'll look into that last one a bit more. Sounds like it's truly meant to be more of a blackbox recorder. Seems it may quickly discard recent data unless an impact or "event" is detected. It seems it has a manual mode but it seems unclear to me if you can set it to just always record until overridden or not. Also, it has a max FPS of 30 or high 24 FPS (not sure what that is) whereas the GoPro can do 60 FPS in 720p. Maybe I'll search for some demo videos online later. Also, curious if you can disable the speed display.
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Interesting I'll look into that last one a bit more. Sounds like it's truly meant to be more of a blackbox recorder. Seems it may quickly discard recent data unless an impact or "event" is detected. It seems it has a manual mode but it seems unclear to me if you can set it to just always record until overridden or not. Also, it has a max FPS of 30 or high 24 FPS (not sure what that is) whereas the GoPro can do 60 FPS in 720p. Maybe I'll search for some demo videos online later. Also, curious if you can disable the speed display.