Which head camera?

So, I'm looking at head cameras... some people on here must have one, what do you have, how much was it, and would you recommend it?

Thanks :)

My mate has a Go Pro and it seems pretty good:

Finsbury Park in the Snow on Vimeo

this one, I guess? http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?PartnerID=79&ModelID=31529

he has the HD version: http://www.goprocamera.com/hdheropreview/

check out lucas bruneil and see what he uses i guess that'll be quite a good one

for videoing your commute etc i have just been told to look at these

Mini DV DVR Sports Video Camera Spy cam SpyCam MD80 DC

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300386276882

£13 shipped from china, usb cable, rechargeable etc

get two, one on front, one on back and then when you have an incident you can email the footage to the police

cheep!!!

ha! im buying some of those!
also dj what were those usb charge lights you had? (im going to utfs after i have had my tea)

for videoing your commute etc i have just been told to look at these

Mini DV DVR Sports Video Camera Spy cam SpyCam MD80 DC

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300386276882

£13 shipped from china, usb cable, rechargeable etc

get two, one on front, one on back and then when you have an incident you can email the footage to the police

one of my lecturers (a cyclist) was saying how one of his friends video's all his commutes for this reason, has had no need to use it yet.

just bought two, seems they are 49.99 on amazon ..lets see if i get two hollow cases

The hard part is image stabilisation and light/aperture/metering. It's easy to get images/video captured, much harder to have them good enough to be usable. If you spend below £100 I'll be impressed if you get great quality out of it and a decent amount of recording time.

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Video using the AEE MINI DV (MD80) video camera[/ame]

those ones seem alright for £12, enough to establish whos right or wrong in an accident

*ha I was just thinking, what if you are stopped by the cops for something - how do you think they would react when you say I am recording our conversation with two cameras..

There is a huge thread about them on bike radar

general consensus is they are ok

Gadget Show did a review on these on Monday:

http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/videos/jon-test/action-cameras

My mate has a Go Pro and it seems pretty good:

Finsbury Park in the Snow on Vimeo

love the films the paris one is really nice.

he has the HD version: http://www.goprocamera.com/hdheropreview/

Jeebus that video was slightly more interesting than filming a commute...looked like they were skiing in the desert though...

for videoing your commute etc i have just been told to look at these

Mini DV DVR Sports Video Camera Spy cam SpyCam MD80 DC

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300386276882

£13 shipped from china, usb cable, rechargeable etc

get two, one on front, one on back and then when you have an incident you can email the footage to the police

Actually, that's a good deal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndAfyaUPD8

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12666507&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40

or when mick gets round to organising the paint ball.. real life Counter Strike!

has anyone seen this

http://www.met.police.uk/roadsafelondon/

Can we club together and get a pair of these for DJ? I reckon after a month or so we'd have enough footage for a TV special fronted by Alastair Stewart we could easily sell to Sky.

haha!

has anyone seen this

http://www.met.police.uk/roadsafelondon/

Good shout. backed up by footage it would hopefully make a difference...

This is another place to log cycle lane offenders...
http://london.mybikelane.com/

I can recommed this one as its got a preview screen which helps setting up the view angle;

http://www.actioncameras.co.uk/X170
£200

Just took it snowboarding too and it survived some pretty good smack downs.

The head seems to absorb a lot of the movement and vibration so that footage doesn't come out too all over the place. Would recommed head mount rather than handlebars for good footage.

for videoing your commute etc i have just been told to look at these

Mini DV DVR Sports Video Camera Spy cam SpyCam MD80 DC

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300386276882

£13 shipped from china, usb cable, rechargeable etc

get two, one on front, one on back and then when you have an incident you can email the footage to the police

these just arrived, not bad for the money, they also stamp the footage with date and time.