In-car cameras - Help!

I started a thread a few years back asking a similar question, but the game has moved on since then, so lets go again...
What's the best way of recording some in-car track footage. Am I best off buying a dedicated in-car camera kit from the likes of dogcam e.g.
http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/mini-dv...et-camera.html
http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/images/...let-camera.jpg
Benefits - Waterproof, remotely mounted bullet camera.
- Small compact recording unit.
Negatives - Relative low quality of video (720x528)

Or do I get a HD camcorder and fit it to a mount on the cage, e.g. Toshiba Camileo H30
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/n...-camcorder.jpg
Benefits - Full HD quality
- Easy to use when out of the car
Negatives - Vibration and issue? (says it has stabilisation but how good is it?)
- More cumbersome to mount, fewer mounting positions.

Discuss!

i Would say buy the toshiba all the rally cars i see have somthing like this vibration doest seem to be a problem atal get a mount to mount it to the cage job done then after your track day use it for any other purpose.

Lee303 uses some sort of remote DVR thing with a bullet cam iirc.

Just looked at the reviews of that Toshiba and they're horrific lol
A mate of mine bought a super fancy HD Camcorder and the footage was shakey and it shutdown eventually, I'm guessing that he was trying to use an HDD camera, instead of flash memory though.

Go for a bullet cam and external recorder. What one you get is up to you, but you mostly get what you pay for. i.e. cheapo one will be ok but the more expensive ones will be better.

Get one of those £8 keyring cameras from ebay lol

i bought a decent set up last week from ebay

dogcam hq1 camera and a dv500 recorder all suplyed from dogcam and on paper you would expect it to be very good but the quality was TERIBLE i was not in the slightest bit impressed, so started looking into it more and found a contour hd

and its the best bit of kit i have bought in a long time

i have the 1080p version and its brilliant video quality is just outstanding and surpasses any bullet camera set up i have seen, mine can even record 720p at 60fps !!

they have a button at the rear to turn it on and then a large ''slider'' to put it to record, incar charger allowes you to record and charge at the same time

dont fall into the mistake i made of thinking that the resolution is what makes the camera its not, its got alot more to do with the encoding it records on the contour hd records in h264 which is one of the best codes to record avalible atm which is miles better than the camera your showing above.

dont just take my word for it thou get onto youtube search (i did include links but would not let me post them)

contour hd
dogcam mini dvr

and see the difference for yourself

the difference is just unbelivable considering the contour hd is cheaper NEW its just crazy

dont make the same mistake i did lol

Those Contour HD's are very impressive! £300 for the motorsport package with mounts, spare batteries, memory cards, 12v cig lighter charger etc etc
http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/contour...met-camera.htm

and sample videos here

http://www.vholdr.com/videolist

I'm tempted...

How much did you pay a1bob? Also there is no screen, so how do you know when it's pointing in the right direction?

I'd get a couple of those keyfob cameras to stick to the front bumper and rear bumper, just to do some groovy PiP touringcar style shots when you edit it all up with the main footage lol

I have the archos camera kit and its just turd... mind you its made by the french so thats explains nearly everything.

I gave the keyfob cameras a go at the first race, the damn thing didn't work :mad: Hence wanting a more reliable method of filming!