Is this a good in-car camera?

pstuart

nodiscount wrote: »

Did you have to pay import duty or anything like that?

No duty or anything on my purchase of this.

Never paid anything on Chinese/Hong Kong/Singapore postal imports
and there have been many over the years.
I think that the shear volume would overcome our tax people.

Supatramp

http://www.amazon.co.uk/E-PRANCE-Novatek-Dashcamera-Recorder-G-sensor-Black/dp/B00IPDDAME/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1405696594&sr=8-2&keywords=g1w+dash+camera

This cam gets good reviews, £41.99 including a 32GB card, and as it's 'fulfilled by Amazon', any problems and it's just a matter of returning it to Amazon, rather than all the way back to China!

londonTiger

cycloneuk wrote: »

I have the HPF210 and have it fused into my rear wiper so it starts recording when i turn the ignition on and stops 10 seconds after i turn it off. I forget it is there now, great camera if more expensive than most, you get what you pay for, would you really trust a cheap Chinese import off eBay? could be the difference between winning or losing a claim.

why the rear wiper? why not the stero or instrument cluster or something?

agree with your sentiment about not buying cheap. The pixels don't mean diddly squat, it's the lens that ensure footage is clear or not. The mega pixles just add more pixels to the image but if the lens cant pick up the image it would just be a "high defnition blue".

Also not forgeting that you want the lens to have a wide field of view so it captures the sides pretty well and not just record the narrow path ahead.

kirkofski

lovinituk wrote: »

Just been watching some of the Techmoan reviews. The Mini 0603 is not much more than the 0601. So do I bother with the GPS logger version or not? Is it worth the extra £7?!

I wouldn't bother with the GPS as its just something else to go wrong(they do - see Dashcam Talk website) plus I doubt the data from the GPS would be any use in an insurance claim as unlike police speed camera's etc, it wont be calibrated regularly.


I've been running the mini 0801 since Christmas and I'm very happy with it.


I wouldn't bother with the dash cam mentioned at the start of the thread. I've seen one in the flesh and they are very big and clunky. Its so obvious that you'd either have to remove it everytime you leave your car otherwise it would be nicked.


The mini 0801 or Mobious are almost unnoticeable and perform much better.

forgotmyname

The GPS is handy because when the other party say it happened at a junction when it happened ona dual carriageway.

GPS does require calibration. It just needs to see the sky to get a satellite lock. Sometimes that can take a few minutes but requires no input from the user.

kirkofski

forgotmyname wrote: »

The GPS is handy because when the other party say it happened at a junction when it happened ona dual carriageway.

GPS does require calibration. It just needs to see the sky to get a satellite lock. Sometimes that can take a few minutes but requires no input from the user.

I was thinking of the GPS with regards to someone that may try and use it to prove what speed they were doing at the time of an accident, in which case I imagine that any opposing insurance company would say "can you supply the calibration certificate to show us when the unit was last calibrated".


Whether they would take the location from the GPS as gospel is another matter, I imagine that could be altered if someone really wanted to do it.


Forgive me for being a little sceptical but after a few none fault accidents, I've learnt that things don't always go according to plan - hence me now having a dash cam fitted

shaun_from_Africa

forgotmyname wrote: »

The GPS is handy because when the other party say it happened at a junction when it happened ona dual carriageway.

Surely the video recording will show exactly where an incident occurred.