Car Camera, anyone done this???

[chrisJDM]

Was thinking of getting a car camera set up, maybe mounted somewhere on the front bumper or on the dash for recording track days and road trips etc.  Anyone done this before??? im sure there are a few of you who have.

Found this on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Car-Vechicle-Rear-Back-View-IR-Color-Camera-CAM-PAL_W0QQitemZ140081919658QQihZ004QQcategoryZ66738QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Would this do the job hooked up to a laptop??  i guess would prob be pretty poor quality for that price

cheers :Thumbsup!

[andysmee]

try Actioncameras.co.uk for a good selection. Then you can tell if the ebay one is worth the risk...

[BleakBoy]

I got purchased one before xmas, and have found it good, will dig out the links for you.

I bought a MP4 recorder to record the footage as well which uses a SD card to save the video on, then just plug that in the pc and hay presto no converting etc...

Works well just the mic position i am still trying to figure out where is best.

[Warthog]

Max has a bullet cam in his front grill opening and it works well. I now have the Sony camcorder with AV in/out so will be setting up a bullet cam in the FD later in the spring.

[hotstepper1973]

yeh i have got a bullet camera purchased it from ireland iam having it installed in my keyhole in boot of car you get great footage from them

[CraigN]

i have one also

dont put the mic in the negine bay sounds horific.

just put it in the car somewere.

[chrisJDM]

hotstepper - hehe to see the look on peoples faces when you pull away from them

CraigN - You wouldnt happen to know a guy called Scott with a silver impreza running bout 400bhp, he works in scooby garage in Bristol?

I have a old laptop at home that i dont use very much so the oplan was to have a camera in the front bumper with a cable going up into the car and connected to the laptop then have some software on the laptop for recording the footage.  Anyone else tried that route??

[CraigN]

thats what i do

i had an issue tho as the laptop would allways stop recording sound after about 4 mins.

dont know why didnt try another laptop tho.

Yes i know Scott, i just broke up with his sister :cry:

[chrisJDM]

:2eek o dear soz to hear that, i was with him the other day and he said his sisters bf had a rx7 and was called Craig so i assumed it was you, you heard hes just blown his engine? havent heard if its a piston or the head or what yet, i was there when he did it, smoke everywhere

What camera did you use with your laptop???

[CraigN]

Didn\'t know that ! he was trying to get me to go down Weston on sunday night lol.

I have a sony bullet cam a colour one i bought from some website. Came with mic and battery pack.

i have a USB device that has the inputs in it from the camera.

I took it out of my cosworth and have not fitted it in my rex yet so i will check it out for you.

[chrisJDM]

wikid sounds just like what i want! is it good quality??? would be good to find out where you got it all from

[CraigN]

found a video of me at the nurburgring using the cam

http://www.craignelson.co.uk/files/craignnurburgring1.wmv

[Warthog]

I have a sony bullet cam a colour one i bought from some website. Came with mic and battery pack.

Any chance of finding the link mate.

[chrisJDM]

Looks good not bad quality, im not looking for summit thats gonna cost lots of money, just summit to have a bit of fun wit

[hotstepper1973]

this is the place where i bought my sony bullet camera from and iirc it is definitely more reasonable to purchase the kit ie :- camera, battery pack and carry case they were fairly efficient aswell ok and had the camera sometime now so pleased with it but that is probably a testiment to sony products rather than rf concepts anyway here is the link hope this helps

http://www.rfconcepts.co.uk/cameras.htm