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08-01-2014, 03:23 PM
Please stay away from the "Go Pro" product. I've done a lot of research on that and even their newest machines are junk. Read the reviews-- Thousands of complaints of "Incredibly short battery life" and "Suddenly turned to a brick" and other problems. People in my race car club have had very bad luck with them, also.
On my car I use this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Full-HD1080P-Wat...2c7835c8e3
It does everything Go Pro does for half or less, and I've been using mine for over 3 years every day on my car. It has performed flawlessly except that the clip on top that holds the waterproof door shut broke off eventually. 2 hours of 1080P video per battery. It'll store about 16 hours of video on a 32 gig card, I think. I've put it on goat saddles as a goat-cam and it has survived all of the bashing against rocks and trees and continues to serve. If it is bolted on upside down it knows to flip the image automatically. Built in screen, TV out and HDMI and USB. Can do still pics and time-lapse. It comes in black, too. Not just blue and black.
On the down side the waterproof buttons are annoying in that they wont beep if the sound effect from a previous button is playing, meaning that sometimes I cant tell if its on or off or what. Also I'm not fond of the MOV format that it stores video in. Its high quality but its a mac format and I use a PC, so its a pain to edit. Also, compared to my ancient Sony bullet camera which worked in the dark, its night vision is non-existant.
Be aware that ANY go-pro style action camera tends to have a bit of a fish-eye lens. This one will be less fish eye if you save in 720P since it uses less of the CCD surface.
On my car I use this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Full-HD1080P-Wat...2c7835c8e3
It does everything Go Pro does for half or less, and I've been using mine for over 3 years every day on my car. It has performed flawlessly except that the clip on top that holds the waterproof door shut broke off eventually. 2 hours of 1080P video per battery. It'll store about 16 hours of video on a 32 gig card, I think. I've put it on goat saddles as a goat-cam and it has survived all of the bashing against rocks and trees and continues to serve. If it is bolted on upside down it knows to flip the image automatically. Built in screen, TV out and HDMI and USB. Can do still pics and time-lapse. It comes in black, too. Not just blue and black.
On the down side the waterproof buttons are annoying in that they wont beep if the sound effect from a previous button is playing, meaning that sometimes I cant tell if its on or off or what. Also I'm not fond of the MOV format that it stores video in. Its high quality but its a mac format and I use a PC, so its a pain to edit. Also, compared to my ancient Sony bullet camera which worked in the dark, its night vision is non-existant.
Be aware that ANY go-pro style action camera tends to have a bit of a fish-eye lens. This one will be less fish eye if you save in 720P since it uses less of the CCD surface.