Post by spunkymonkey on Aug 31, 2011 20:09:18 GMT
I saw this on EBay and couldn't resist:
Now, the box sort of gets it wrong - it's not a voice recorder at all but a video camera. But they certainly got the "small" bit right:
The lighter didn't come with it, I just added that for a sense of scale because saying "tiny" doesn't really get the concept across! It also doesn't come with a memory card, so you need to supply your own microSD card (up to 16Gb according to the manual). I had a spare 2 gig lying around, so that went in to test it with.
It also comes with just the sort of accessories the average man-about-car might want:
Clockwise from top right you get:
* "Croc clip" holder (which the camera clips into nice & positively)
* Lanyard
* Protective jelly "skin" case
* Wall (or similar) mount for the camera to clip to
* Ball-jointed magnetic mount (dashboard???) which the croc clip holder clips to
Now, all that's great but not much use if the thing doesn't work. Having been playing with it this afternoon, it certainly does work, although you need a little patience with it sometimes:
* The battery takes a long time to charge enough to use it (after the first hour it only managed 14 seconds of video)
* If you do something it doesn't like (such as removing the SD card while it's connected to your PC) it tends to freeze and you have to insert a "slim pole" into the reset switch.
* The instructions are in finest Chinglese but there's lots of info on the net for them as well.
so to the crunch - the videos. This is a 5 minute test-drive I took in Matilda the Daf with it simply clipped to the passenger sun visor:
Bear in mind that I had to compress the video a huge amount before uploading - it came off the camera at 300Mb - so the quality of that clip doesn't really do it justice. Just to make amends for that, this is a still taken from a couple of minutes in, showing the full freeze-frame resolution:
Which I reckon isn't at all bad for a camera, with accessories, which cost.....
£9.95 including delivery!!!!!!!!
Now, the box sort of gets it wrong - it's not a voice recorder at all but a video camera. But they certainly got the "small" bit right:
The lighter didn't come with it, I just added that for a sense of scale because saying "tiny" doesn't really get the concept across! It also doesn't come with a memory card, so you need to supply your own microSD card (up to 16Gb according to the manual). I had a spare 2 gig lying around, so that went in to test it with.
It also comes with just the sort of accessories the average man-about-car might want:
Clockwise from top right you get:
* "Croc clip" holder (which the camera clips into nice & positively)
* Lanyard
* Protective jelly "skin" case
* Wall (or similar) mount for the camera to clip to
* Ball-jointed magnetic mount (dashboard???) which the croc clip holder clips to
Now, all that's great but not much use if the thing doesn't work. Having been playing with it this afternoon, it certainly does work, although you need a little patience with it sometimes:
* The battery takes a long time to charge enough to use it (after the first hour it only managed 14 seconds of video)
* If you do something it doesn't like (such as removing the SD card while it's connected to your PC) it tends to freeze and you have to insert a "slim pole" into the reset switch.
* The instructions are in finest Chinglese but there's lots of info on the net for them as well.
so to the crunch - the videos. This is a 5 minute test-drive I took in Matilda the Daf with it simply clipped to the passenger sun visor:
Bear in mind that I had to compress the video a huge amount before uploading - it came off the camera at 300Mb - so the quality of that clip doesn't really do it justice. Just to make amends for that, this is a still taken from a couple of minutes in, showing the full freeze-frame resolution:
Which I reckon isn't at all bad for a camera, with accessories, which cost.....
£9.95 including delivery!!!!!!!!