First Video - Md80 Ebay Camera

tell me more about these cameras pleas

From the other thread -

snotrag said:

Its the lastest ebay sensation - the 'MD80 spy camera'. Loads of people buying them on all sorts of forums, for cycling, track days, skydiving etc.

Tip is to buy one WITHOUT a bundled Micro SD card (Mine was £11.99 from Hong kong in 5 days or so) and then buy seperately a good quality, Class 6, SDHC 8gb card. The better the card the faster the camera can write to it, so you get better frame rate.

For the money its a fun little toy.

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Its not eactly brilliant but its pretty good - especially if you have nice bright light. It was a very grey, overcast day and the camera got filthy, which is why the picture is a bit grey. I'll be trying again soon on a nicer day.

The camera comes with a couple of mounts, I have one ziptied to my roll bar, and the other one clipped on just inside the number plate recess.

I'll try work out how to epxort to better quality next time, and use a higher resolution format for youtube.

ETA - Scott from Pistoneads who runs roadsporthire.com has been messing about the the same cameras too, had a good chat with him on Sunday.

See here for his videos -
http://www.youtube.com/user/mcfie121

Ordered one today ?11.99 from HK.

Could you please upload one video to VIMEO so we can see the quality of it?

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Was it this?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260581591013&autorefresh=true
Cos I think I just bought one ... Went to look, Oh theres one just ending..
I just over did myself by .05

Went to see what it costs in Finland

Allan M said:

is it waterproof? I have been looking for something I can strap on my mountainbike and this might fit the bill.

Does it recharge via the usb?

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I just ordered one and it says it does in the ad

Only MX5ives said:

Am I missing something here....

I have a fairly basic nokia and it takes better quality video that that, so whats all the fuss about ? why not just strap your phone to the dash ?

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Would you ducktape your nokia to front grill or side behind front wheel? It's cheap so if bad happens, its not a big loss..
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Why would I want to ?

To get a decent view of the road I'd tape it to the RV Mirror looking forward or the cabin brace looking rearward.
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FFS Mark

Got mine today, for the money i am well impressed with it

Allan M said:

is it waterproof? I have been looking for something I can strap on my mountainbike and this might fit the bill.

Does it recharge via the usb?

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No it's not waterproof but you could try this And yes you can charge it from the USB

Quick Silver said:

Am I missing something here....

I have a fairly basic nokia and it takes better quality video that that, so whats all the fuss about ? why not just strap your phone to the dash ?

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Would you ducktape your nokia to front grill or side behind front wheel? It's cheap so if bad happens, its not a big loss..
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Why would I want to ?

To get a decent view of the road I'd tape it to the RV Mirror looking forward or the cabin brace looking rearward.
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FFS Mark
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WTF is up with you ?

I ask a reasonable question why would I want to tape it behind a front wheel ?

I guess you could also stick it up your ar$e... but again I don't want to do that.