I’m in the market for a new camcorder which is mainly used for recording from the bullet cam attached to the bike.
My last cam was a Canon MV6i MC MiniDV. Worked real well although it did suffer from short battery life and occasional tape skipping on the bumpier sections of the TT course.
This cam is now dead with a broken door mechenisim and its not cost effective to fix it.
So… Whats the best cam to go for under 500notes which is small. Anyone had any experience with Hardrive Camcorders?
ive got canon mv730i mini dv camera which takes analog input as well as digital, had better results with the analog remote cameras, and they are cheap, got remote cams from a ebayer called tinifish, and leads to go between from another ebayer called dennis_smiley
think i paid about 400 for camcorder and about 30 each for the remote cameras leads were about a fiver each
its a bit heath robinson but gives reasonable results, found always best to use new tapes when doing on bike as old footage can skip through when re-using
If your going down the PVR route then see if you can borrow one before you buy it. As i said when we used this on setup in a Caterham race the results were shockingly bad.
Also the max capture from the current bunch of PVR’s are 640x480 which is no where near good enough for high quality video.
watch out for av and dv inputs the canon takes both but its the only one that i could find that does, your bullet cam is prob dv…
i use sd cards in the camera sometimes instead of tape need gig cards to any decent length footage, but tend to get decent results, makes it all a bit more expensive though e buyers were doing gig cards for around 55 pounds though so worth shopping around
does that go on the helmet or the tank ???
