If you get one, get one with a wide angle view so you can see approaching cars from left and right. The one I have is High Def video and gets about 7 hours of video on a 32GB micro SD card. Sorry I can't remember the brand right now but I'll look in the morning and repost. It cos me around $180.00 with the microSD card. We recently did a trip from Newcastle to Alice then across to Townsville and back home again and have footage of from Coober Pedy onward. I plan to get around to editing it to give a decent view of the different places we went to. Luckily I haven't needed to use it for evidence in a crash situation, but have come close a couple of times.
Edit to correct micro SD card size.
-- Edited by 03_troopy on Wednesday 14th of August 2013 07:01:23 PM
I use a Navman, $199 I bought the one with a 5 meg camera there is a version with a 2 meg camera at $119 and I bought a 32 gig micro SD card. No GPS facility. There is some software to run on your PC and save files for whatever reason, Evidence or even just for a record of where you have been.
Has a Bump or G force recording facility and will run for about 10 hours then over write the SD card.
Looks good when played on my laptop. Very happy with it.
There are lots around on flebay and other sites and cost from $20 to several hundred.
PS. From the footage that turns up on the net I think they are almost mandatory in Russia where insurance fraud is rampant.
-- Edited by Yuglamron on Wednesday 14th of August 2013 08:02:07 PM
-- Edited by Yuglamron on Wednesday 14th of August 2013 08:14:38 PM
Got one off Ebay $20.00 same thing selling here $78.00 no card but will take a 32 MB card Mine win run on internal battery of from the lighter socket ,mounted by suction cup behind the internal mirror no sight obstruction of note so far. Can have it run full time or by motion detection I run it full time on an 8 MB card when card full just records over
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I looked at a couple off Ebay too, and even bout a similar one from a computer market. The difference with the HD video is very dramatic though and I forgot to mention that minne also has GPS and an embedded viewer that can be loaded onto your computer so that you can view the video and see a track of where it was taken super imposed on a google map window, in map view, or sat image view. The speed, time and gps location are also available on the video as well.
dont pick ya nose wile standing in front of camera hehe problem solverd . duno what brand i got but both trucks have em and im lookin at a 2 camera one
I got one off Ebay and have some great footage of our last trip saved on a USB stick, cost us $30 + $15 for 32gb SD card. Suction ups behind the rear view mirror out of the way. At the caravan and camping show last year at Batemans bay they wanted $140 from memory for the same unit go figure
Life is a two way street - this means that the evidence that your camera records can be used against you. I'm just guessing, but if an incident did occur and you were partly to blame, then the other party could demand the footage from your camera in court. Your refusal to provide it could be an admission of guilt.
Bottom line is that we always think the other bloke will be in the wrong....ain't necessarily so.
Like all self gathered forms of evidence you are not obliged to provide any material that's self incriminating . Then there's the self preservation mode we all slip into in times of need arises " It isn't Working Officer" No Card inserted
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I paid $120 for one at the Sydney caravan show and it is hopeless, a few weeks later they were being flogged for $29 online. I then got one at JB for $68, a uniden works great. not very big
and you have the option of what resolution you want. Hope I never need it to record an accident. I want to include some of the footage from it on my travel videos.
There are a lot of informational vids on you tube
