Back by (not-so) popular demand - Bike Helmet Cam Review
Thank you so much for submitting your votes on the survey the other day, it's been really useful to know the best areas to concentrate my efforts.
Now for the bad news, this video fits into the least popular category, helmet cams. The good news though is that I can stop reviewing these for a while because I've now found my favourite.
If anyone is interested - the purchasing links are on youtube.
Downloadable samples are here: http://bit.ly/2trC8gf
Comments (17)
Can you recommend a camera that can record 8h continually unattended? No looping. I'm teaching a class and would like a set-and-forget camera to record the whole day. :)
I can't think of anything specific - you'd have to power it from a mains power supply or a big USB battery pack as no internal battery would last that long. Then it would need to be able to support 256GB memory cards and record in a pretty low bitrate in 1080p or 720p. The Sony action cameras have good microphones so may be suitable, but I'm struggling to find our how big an MicroSD card they'll support and how much you can fit on the largest one. <a href="https://www.sony.com/electronics/actioncam/hdr-as50/specifications" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.sony.com/electronics/actioncam/hdr-as50/specifications</a>
Nice piece of kit. Happy to see the puppets back, and I'm laughing at the thought of lovingly setting up two cameras to get the best shots of a glass of Coke. Perfection takes effort, of course.
I cheated a bit it's one camera and two different drinks. The one the dad hands across is Dr Pepper and the Coke closeups were shot seperately at the end.
Did you ever build your Picade? You mentioned it in your Intel Nuc video.
I did...after a year or so they updated the software on the emulators to work propely with the Picade...and I used a Pi3 in the case. You can see it in use here. <a href="https://youtu.be/1F7-JpVv3N8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/1F7-JpVv3N8</a>
Nicely done - Now Im going to have to consider bike cam again! Sena and others should employ you to impart some sense on the marketing and product development teams. Amusing muppets too :-). First, I'm off to find your NC700 review.
Don't sweat the video not being the most-liked type. It was enjoyable nonetheless. Now I need a Coke (Zero) ;)
Unpopular demand? Well, I've been watching this channel for over 7 years now and the only two products I managed to buy due to your recommendations were the Contour Roam 2 camera which I use on my helmet (and I see you did too after all these years) and... a Panasonic LX3 lens cap replacement (not sure this review is still online). And I did also enjoy your review of the Honda NC700 DCT, which almost led me to a VFR1200F DCT... but I gave up because it was utterly expensive here in Brazil, so I opted for a Triumph Explorer 1200 instead. So rest assured you have at least one #1 loyal fan of the motorcycle helmet camera reviews. Daniel from Rio de Janeiro! If I can offer a suggestion, please review more of the SENA products, those are always top notch stuff, those intercoms, and there is a worldwide motorcycle community that would discover you because of those. Cheers!!
I suppose I should have said least-popular demand...but I was trying to do a play on words that called back to the survey results. I just thought it was funny that only two days ago I asked people what they liked the most and then game them the opposite. I feel that this camera is in some ways a successor to the Contours, it seems to follow the same idea of keeping things simple. I can't really do intercoms because I don't know anyone locally with (or without) a motorbike...so it would be hard to test on my own. However now that I've tried some Sena equipment, I'm interested to see what else they come up with.
Again, although I'm not in the market for a bike CAM, it was still a top quality video. "I'm Lov'in It" [sorry about that..!]
Although I personally don't have a Motorcycle, therefor don't need a camera for it, I watch the videos on them cause it just seems overall interesting how you present it and its always nice to know what's on the Market. The Skit with the Youtube Pedant was hilarious, as always.
And now I got to the end.. and you made me crave for a coke! Dammit! I don't have any! :D
Regarding parked/stopped cars running when it's dark.. doesn't the UK traffic rules state you shall turn on the parking lights only...? Like we have in Norway - to make sure what happened to you, actually doesn't occur. But people are daft and beyond this, and never learn the traffic rules I guess. ;) Keep up the good work! :D
It does have this rule in the Highway Code - there are lots of rules.... that a good proportion of people ignore.
I really quite liked the 'Bits to camera' that you cut into the middle of the video. Not seen you do that much before, usually just for intro/outro type jobs, but I think it works well including more of them in the middle of the video
I keep trying to mix things up a bit....whenever I see something done on TV or in a video that looks like it could come in handy I'll try to incorporate it. Not working to any kind of script makes things a bit trickier, but on this one I found if I did the segments to camera first I could then work around them in the edit.