Yeah, that's why a helmet or chest mount is my favourite method. It also adds extra stabilisation to the camera.
The door bell just went, my Gopro camera accessories have just arrived, camera should be along later today! I'll let you know how it all works out.
Re: Camera for my scooter...
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 4:08 am
by Data
Nice vid Chris. Pretty good picture quality. Is that 720p or 1080 or higher?
Re: Camera for my scooter...
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:18 am
by mottza
1080p down scaled to 720p.
Re: Camera for my scooter...
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 2:11 pm
by Data
Thanks for the info Chris.
The Hero 7 Black has a shorter battery life than your Silver version. I'm guessing to get the best battery life I need to turn off wi-fi and when on the bike, record at lower res. Currently charging both batteries so I can start to play tomorrow. So far have taken photo of left foot. Unintentional of course; it was meant to be the right foot!
Re: Camera for my scooter...
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 4:11 pm
by mottza
Don't worry. On the way out I managed to stick it on photo mode and took a photo rather than a video.
Video life is not too bad. But I was impressed I did a 8 hour time lapse video on one battery all the way from Cornwall to Colchester.
Re: Camera for my scooter...
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:54 am
by Data
Blimey, 8hrs is amazing. Thanks for the info.
Re: Camera for my scooter...
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:27 am
by mottza
It won't do that on video and certainly not in 4k.
Re: Camera for my scooter...
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:40 am
by Biglee 123
Hi I have a Camara back and front on my kymco400i they are both kitvision and have a battery life of 75 minutes take 3 hours to recharge and cost 15 pounds each from Ebay had them a year now takes good video and audio inexpensive and reliable
Data wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:09 am
Thanks muddyfox. That's very interesting. I'm playing catch up on this sort of thing at the moment. I want to use any camera I buy for lots of different applications. On the bike will be a primary one, but want to use it to shoot other types of video too. I've been getting into editing footage that I take with my phone and other point and shoot cameras using 'Shotcut' video editing software. It's pretty good and I've had some good results. But I really need a much better camera to move on and get that BAFTA!
How do you find the battery life working out on your camera? Is the video quality pretty good? Can you alter the settings to get rid of the 'fish eye' effect like you can mostly do with Gopro?
Camera runs from USB socket in left glove box. Turns on and off via movement sensor settings so it fit and forget regarding usage for scooter rides. Once SD card is full it overwrites oldest video section. Have used it as a still shot camera off the scooter and results don't look to bad to me. Here's a bit of video shot through a dark tinted sports screen.
Image stabilisation seems to work very well there Mr Fox.
