I really fancy a very cheap basic camcorder to be able to film my animals
getting up to their usual highjinks and upload it to the web/youtube for
friends to see. I missed a cracker this morning when I let my little
chicken, Clare, out of her coop for the day. She's been perfectly fine with
my 80 lb labrador Sammie for the last year until he nearly ran into her a
couple of weeks ago and had to lauch himself into the air over her to avoid
mowing her down. Since then she's had the right hump with him.

This morning she set off across the lawn to go foraging up at the farm,
passed him rolling about on the grass, got about 10 feet past him, thought
better of it, turned round, launched herself at his head, pecked him firmly
on the nose and then strutted off again. Sam yelped and ran howling to the
back door.

I don't want or need HD, 640 x 480 would be fine but they all seem to come
with HD anyway. Then it seems I really do need an SDHC card or you can't
actually record more than a few seconds of anything.

The Vivitar 508HD is about as cheap as I can see online for £20. I can't see
me getting too upset if it isn't fantastic quality for the price of a bottle
of scotch. I guess it'll also take even better still pictures than my
faithful old Fuji Finepix 1400 1.3 megapixel which cost a bloody fortune in
comparison 15 years ago.

Any reason to spend more for such a basic need?
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Dave Baker

On 01/07/2015 14:49, Dave Baker wrote:

The Vivitar 508HD is about as cheap as I can see online for £20. I can't
see me getting too upset if it isn't fantastic quality for the price of
a bottle of scotch. I guess it'll also take even better still pictures
than my faithful old Fuji Finepix 1400 1.3 megapixel which cost a bloody
fortune in comparison 15 years ago.

Any reason to spend more for such a basic need?

I don't know, but

http://www.techmoan.com/

is worth a look. His youtube videos are well made, informative and
entertaining.

Another Dave
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On 01/07/2015 15:19, Another Dave wrote:
On 01/07/2015 14:49, Dave Baker wrote:

The Vivitar 508HD is about as cheap as I can see online for £20. I can't
see me getting too upset if it isn't fantastic quality for the price of
a bottle of scotch. I guess it'll also take even better still pictures
than my faithful old Fuji Finepix 1400 1.3 megapixel which cost a bloody
fortune in comparison 15 years ago.

Any reason to spend more for such a basic need?

I don't know, but

http://www.techmoan.com/

is worth a look. His youtube videos are well made, informative and
entertaining.

Another Dave

IME the audio is often the weak point

On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:49:34 UTC+1, Dave Baker wrote:

The Vivitar 508HD is about as cheap as I can see online for £20. I can't see
me getting too upset if it isn't fantastic quality for the price of a bottle
of scotch. I guess it'll also take even better still pictures than my
faithful old Fuji Finepix 1400 1.3 megapixel which cost a bloody fortune in
comparison 15 years ago.

Any reason to spend more for such a basic need?

I guess provided your there with teh camera at the time of whatevere takes place that should be OK, but what if the action is further away or you wanted to leave it set uop to see what happens at night.

Most people (excluding myself) have better camera equipment in their phones nowadays.
I brought a swann IP cam from maplins years ago and set up this, using a mac and evocam software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUBgEZ5fteU

On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 14:49:17 +0100, Dave Baker wrote:

Any reason to spend more for such a basic need?

What might be the biggest snag is how long it takes to boot up and be
recording from cold. Especially as you're wanting to capture
unpredictable live events.

Are there any cheap Go-Pro clones that you could wear like a head
torch and leave running. Then when something happens you switch into
camera operator mode (ie stand still, kep you head still, other than
gently following the action) and get semi reasonable footage.

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Cheers
Dave.

In article ,
stuart noble wrote:
is worth a look. His youtube videos are well made, informative and
entertaining.

Another Dave

IME the audio is often the weak point

Always is with a mic on the camera.

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*No hand signals. Driver on Viagra*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 01/07/2015 16:56, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
stuart noble wrote:
is worth a look. His youtube videos are well made, informative and
entertaining.

Another Dave

IME the audio is often the weak point

Always is with a mic on the camera.


The twin mics on my point and shoot are fine for family stuff but the
mono mic on a similarly priced camera was truly awful

On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:56:28 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

is worth a look. His youtube videos are well made, informative
and
entertaining.

Another Dave

IME the audio is often the weak point

Always is with a mic on the camera.

Depends what you want and the critical distance for the enviroment.

But of course every one thinks sound is simple but we know different
don't we Dave. B-)

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Cheers
Dave.