i am thinking of getting a camera to mount on my bike
but don't know much about them. something digital but easy to use and can be put where it wont get wrecked to easy
and not the most expensive
what kind should i look at?
I'd go to http://www.motovid.com and contact Mike there. The site hasn't been updated for a while, but he does a lot of on bike stuff and is really up on the new stuff. Cameras, formats, etc.
I just bought a used Canon mini DV off ebay for 100 bucks. Make sure you get one that can handle external audio/video (ZR20 to ZR50's) and for convenience, they have a LANC port (to enable remote control).
Used camera 100
bullet camera 40 (mount anywhere on the bike)
Remote mic 12
Lanc cable 30 (not required, but nice to have)
http://www.mountaingear.com/pages/product/Search_Results_Endeca_New.asp?N=0&PrevN=4294967227&Nu=p_rollup&Ntk=s_search&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Nty=1&PrevNtt=&Ntt=atc+2000
thats what I got, runs off aa batteries and vid stores on a 2 gig sd card. 2gigs on the highest setting will record for an hour. easy transfers on to a computer with the sd card :boink:
thanks for the info
not sure about buying a camera off ebay but it might be a good price
Thats what I have, it does the job pretty well! :thumb:
i am more afraid of crashing and wrecking a camera too
For $170, who fricken cares? That's why I went w the ATC2K. Descent video at a descent price. Perfect amount of record time for the track too.