Video Cameras For Motorsport Use

[Marlin]

The image quality of that looks excellent! What is the sound like though?

[evade]

Haha the sound is as it is in that video..

If you didn't notice, I had the radio turned up at the start, then turned the volume down and just had the window open..and then booted it at one stage near the end and you can hear that silly holden V6 crying..

its not too bad, a little tinny but otherwise will manage

As opposed to the GoPro Hero cams which don't seem to record decent sound at all..

[Marlin]

Haha, Ohhhh, that was sound. I thought it was some horrible interference

Certainly a much better option than a Go-Pro.

[benm]

Thats the best quality i've ever seen from an in-car cam, ever! The sound was fine, not much sound to be recorded whilst on a motorway doing 100km/h.

I'd love to see a video of some city driving or country type roads.

[evade]

I'll see what other videos I can get from it and post them up. Very happy quality wise so far! Even at night..

[SABBAi]

It does look like a great little Camera. How hav eyou got it mounted in the car Aaron? do you have one of those headrest clamps?

[evade]

I do Scott, but i have a big one for a handycam.

In this case I just shoved between the headrest and seat..so the mic is covered..

I plan to get one a bit more suited to a smaller camera more like the GoPro mounts

[260DET]

Sample in-car vid from today

Looks like this, I got it in a less loud silver..

Yeh High Definition (HD) is the way to go, the picture quality is way better than most motorsport specific cameras, some of which have rubbish video quality. There are other HD cameras which are cheaper than the name brands eg Aiptek, Digilife and which usually weigh less then 200grams.

YouTube still degrade the picture quality even on HQ, Vimeo are supposed to be better. Here is an incar example using a Digilife 1080HD solid state pocket camera

Viewing the file direct its easy to see and read the gauges and speedo, going through YouTube stuffs that part up a bit. Edited May 17, 2009 by 260DET

[benm]

Any idea if the Panasonic DMC-TS1/FT1 can take larger than 2gb memory cards as according to this review site 2gb = 23mins on the highest quality setting. A 16gb hd card is only worth $50.

[PHaT MR30]

Does anyone know much about the Trackvision software and whats the best cheap data aquisition unit? IE cheaper than a traqmate?

[sav man]

I've made a Nismo dash for trackvision, i'm just in the process of setting the dash to read the logs. Should have to video in the next couple of weeks.

I think the trackvision forums are a good place to to find some loggers. the traqmate was the cheapest i found that did what i wanted (gps+aux inputs).

i know greg (targa tom) has used trackvision in the past.

[evade]

Any idea if the Panasonic DMC-TS1/FT1 can take larger than 2gb memory cards as according to this review site 2gb = 23mins on the highest quality setting. A 16gb hd card is only worth $50.

It can, I have a 12GB class 4 card and works fine with HD recording, havent had any issues.

[Tektrader69]

A mate of mine bought one of these. Its 720P and takes great video.

Think I may just buy one of these. For $199 why not !!

http://www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/otek-high-...n-video-camera/

[Tektrader69]

My Deals Direct camera arrived.

It works really well. The 720p 30fps output is pretty damn good. This camera is really tiny.

Here's some video I took yesterday. Still compressed fair bit by the up load. The raw camera footage is heaps better than this. The video output is 16:9 aspect. I had to crop the sides off so it looked right after upload.

http://vimeo.com/5109941

for the money this thing is great value. But the best bit is unlike the go-pro you can rotate the screen around so you dont have to look at it from the back to preview what you are going to be getting.

Edited June 11, 2009 by Tektrader69

[benm]

That's quite good for the price.

[zebra]

thats unreal for the price!!! and megga lol at the AMI ad

[Beer Baron]

footage and sound seem good. still would like to see it on track. many cameras look great for a spin around the block but how well they can handle the g force, wind noise, vibration, and loud exhuast noise of a race car is the real test.

[zebra]

footage and sound seem good. still would like to see it on track. many cameras look great for a spin around the block but how well they can handle the g force, wind noise, vibration, and loud exhuast noise of a race car is the real test.

True but with my driving I probly dont want to see it in detail....if ya know what I mean

[evade]

Thats not bad, Vimeo accepts 16:9 vids so you shouldn't have to crop it??

I finally got around to doing something simple in car to upload from the little panasonic.

[Tektrader69]

I am going to Winton to play with the road car in early July. So will give it a run then and repost the video.

Cropped it cause I uploaded to Photobucket first and it looked shocking. Then redid the file onto Vimeo which doesnt compress quite as much. So it stayed 4:3

Edited June 18, 2009 by Tektrader69