[mikeythemini]

Looking at stocking a new in car camera system. It records to memory card & could be used to record interior or even exterior events. Any interest

[Rakey]

Quote: Originally Posted by mikeythemini (original)

Looking at stocking a new in car camera system. It records to memory card & could be used to record interior or even exterior events. Any interest

Depending on price and how good it is at night at capturing faces etc...

[South Shore Lad]

Sounds great fun, but won't there be legal problems CCTV-ing the general public?

I've heard of householders coming unstuck if their cameras record anything other than events on their own property (eg - no passerbys on the pavement). Invasion of privacy and all that malarkey!

SSL

[popey]

Good fun for a bit of dogging tho

[Lucky Dave]

Could also be used as evidence against you if driving on the wrong side of the law!

[Woody'sCooper]

certainly sounds interesting. I assume the intended purpose is for run filming etc?

[Ant FR]

be careful with these, lots of people prosecuted by their own evidence

[Fin]

Quote: Originally Posted by South Shore Lad (original)

Sounds great fun, but won't there be legal problems CCTV-ing the general public?

I've heard of householders coming unstuck if their cameras record anything other than events on their own property (eg - no passerbys on the pavement). Invasion of privacy and all that malarkey!

SSL

Generally if the camera is in a fixed position and the images you are recording are for a genuine reason of reducing crime you will have no problem. For example, you may very well need to capture some of the pavement outside your house/property in order to catch vandals throwing things. The problems arise when you have a PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) camera where you can follow people. In this case you have to inform the Data Protection Commissioner.

Also you are not to store the images recorded for a time longer than is reasonably necessary. For example, recording from cameras at your house I would say 2-3 weeks is reasonable as you may be on holiday when someone breaks in. Cash machine recordings are usually longer, in the region of 3-6 months as people don't see their bank statements that often and if someone has cloned their card to use a cash machine they can replay the footage.

As for incar CCTV; it would be interesting if you could have the system linked to the car alarm so that if some retard tries to steal your car it is activated. I don't think you would have any problems legally.

[Nath316]

Quote: Originally Posted by popey (original)

Good fun for a bit of dogging tho

nice to know that I wasnt the only one who thought this lol

[mikeythemini]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lucky Dave (original)

Could also be used as evidence against you if driving on the wrong side of the law!

Or for you if some **** pulls out on you

[minionefun]

very interested! would like to catch a neighbour keying my car!, dont make it to expensive tho.

[Snowie]

I am interested if it can be used to record runs and track days etc.

Seems Ideal for the Italian Job events

Alan

[minicabrio]

I'd be interested in this also Mikey.... I've seen systems in the US that continually hold a couple of minutes of video (a bit like Sky+ does with live TV), and in the event of an incident you can press a 'capture' button, so the last couple of minutes of your journey are automatically saved...

Would your gadget be something along those lines?

These things certainly help with insurance claims etc...

[Fin]

Quote: Originally Posted by Snowie (original)

I am interested if it can be used to record runs and track days etc.

Seems Ideal for the Italian Job events

Alan

Action Camera - I Want One Of Those

That might do.

[Snowie]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fin (original)

Action Camera - I Want One Of Those

That might do.

Very neat - thanks for the link. Could be on the shopping list soon as trying to mount an expensive video on the front of the GP is not easy.

[Lucky Dave]

I have one of those! It was strapped to my rear spoiler at Castle Combe!

With a 2Gb car it records about 45 mins in its highest res.

I think I paid about £60 for it from the US with the 2Gb card

It also fixes to the towing eye very nicely!

[Fin]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lucky Dave (original)

I have one of those! It was strapped to my rear spoiler at Castle Combe!

With a 2Gb car it records about 45 mins in its highest res.

I think I paid about £60 for it from the US with the 2Gb card

It also fixes to the towing eye very nicely!

How good is the picture quality? I'm thinking of getting one for when I go paragliding.

[Snowie]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lucky Dave (original)

I have one of those! It was strapped to my rear spoiler at Castle Combe!

With a 2Gb car it records about 45 mins in its highest res.

I think I paid about £60 for it from the US with the 2Gb card

It also fixes to the towing eye very nicely!

Is there a vid some where that I can view before deciding to buy one

[mikeythemini]

The system I am looking at has a very small bullet type camera & seperate reccorder
The recorder takes SD cards
It has manual start & stop buttons & will continuously loop record like a black box on a plane. It also has a G sensor so will record the evidence leading up to a collision
It records at 6-8fps
With the supplied 512mb sd card it records for 1 hour, larger cards can also be used
I am looking at building Mini specific plug & play kits

[Rakey]

Quote: Originally Posted by minionefun (original)

very interested! would like to catch a neighbour keying my car!, dont make it to expensive tho.

Thats what I am interested in it for too