GoPro or ...?

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14-06-18, 12:53 PM
Mitch9128

GoPro or ...?

My latest camera, Veho K2 pro has died, it's the second veho to die, i'm not over impressed with their brand as a whole anymore. So GoPro Hero 5, or Session 5? I understand the session has been discontinued, so can be had for £130, whereas the cheapest Hero5 is £250 or thereabouts, for as far as i can see the addition of a touchscreen, though that makes it a more versatile camera, and the battery isn't fixed. Anyone got an opinion? Recc another brand, etc? I use the camera occaisionally on the M/bike, always on the road cycle and sometimes on the mtb, and always on beach hols etc.

TIA Mitch
14-06-18, 01:17 PM
Badger-Roy

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Originally Posted by Mitch9128

My latest camera, Veho K2 pro has died, it's the second veho to die, i'm not over impressed with their brand as a whole anymore. So GoPro Hero 5, or Session 5? I understand the session has been discontinued, so can be had for £130, whereas the cheapest Hero5 is £250 or thereabouts, for as far as i can see the addition of a touchscreen, though that makes it a more versatile camera, and the battery isn't fixed. Anyone got an opinion? Recc another brand, etc? I use the camera occaisionally on the M/bike, always on the road cycle and sometimes on the mtb, and always on beach hols etc.

TIA Mitch

With action cams it depends what you want it for, Personally I don't use my cameras to record for posterity, I just like to record everything for my own use in case of having an accident to hopeful prove I was in the right, for this reason I need no features apart from loop recording. In the past I paid out for a GoPro and riding back from Somerset it fell of the bike and I lost it (Iv always had visions of someone finding it one day and watching what's on it and seeing it fall of my bike and bounceing through someone's windscreen ;)) , as it was expensive I was REALLY peed of so all I buy now is the cheapo Chinese GoPro copy's for £9.99, features are very basic but they record and in HD and Iv yet to have a fault with one. I brought 10 of them and have put 2 on each bike (front and back) and 2 in the car and including buying memory cards for each Iv still spent less than half the price I spent on my original GoPro and over a year on they are still going strong.
14-06-18, 01:34 PM
Burbler

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Originally Posted by Badgerroy

so all I buy now is the cheapo Chinese GoPro copy's for £9.99, features are very basic but they record and in HD and Iv yet to have a fault with one.

Wossit called ? Where ? Waterproof ?
14-06-18, 01:56 PM
Mitch9128

I've got an sj4000, cheapo gopro copy, i use it as a dashcam in my car, needs resetting every so often though, and battery is now dead, only runs when ignition on, supposed to run on for 3 mins after i switch off. Also got an Ion Air pro, but i don't really like the bullet cams any more either, and i guess i've answered my question on the session, as i don't like no screen.
14-06-18, 04:01 PM
Badger-Roy

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Originally Posted by Burbler

Wossit called ? Where ? Waterproof ?

they are the same as this, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-DV-S...oAAOSwlptaFiMs
the battery's are crap I admit but it's easy enough to hard wire them in so they charge as you ride, I tend to wire them into the headlight so it only works when the engines running.
14-06-18, 04:41 PM
Burbler

Why are there dozens of different prices for what looks like the same item, and from the same supplier ?

Baffled we are, yes.
14-06-18, 05:07 PM
Badger-Roy

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Originally Posted by Burbler

Why are there dozens of different prices for what looks like the same item, and from the same supplier ?

Baffled we are, yes.

thats just eBay making sure nothings easy for the buyer ;).
14-06-18, 06:16 PM
Dabz

Yup cheap Chinese GoPro copy for me too, does the job and if it falls off the bike it’s cheap enough to just be a nuisance rather than a disaster
14-06-18, 06:33 PM
Burbler

OK. I'll fall for it.

One on order. If satisfactory I'll get another.
14-06-18, 08:10 PM
WR6133

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Originally Posted by Burbler

Why are there dozens of different prices for what looks like the same item, and from the same supplier ?

Because madly enough there are fake SJCam's (cheaper hardware/firmware).

Specs of the real ones here https://sjcam.com/
14-06-18, 08:16 PM
Burbler

These are silly differences.

£9.98 / £10.74 / £10 85 / £11.29 / £13.00 etc.
14-06-18, 08:34 PM
Badger-Roy

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Originally Posted by WR6133

Because madly enough there are fake SJCam's (cheaper hardware/firmware).

Specs of the real ones here https://sjcam.com/

oh they are with out doubt fake but they work and cost next to nothing. They are really a copy of a copy as the SJ was basically a copy of the GoPro, copy of a copy, where will it end:).
14-06-18, 08:37 PM
Badger-Roy

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Originally Posted by Burbler

These are silly differences.

£9.98 / £10.74 / £10 85 / £11.29 / £13.00 etc.

if they are all the same apart from the price then there's only one I'd be looking at and that's the £9.98 one.
14-06-18, 08:46 PM
WR6133

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Originally Posted by Burbler

These are silly differences.

£9.98 / £10.74 / £10 85 / £11.29 / £13.00 etc.

If it's just a crash cam then as badger says £9.98. If you want decent 1080p footage of rides to edit, etc then stretch to an SJCam M10 (SJ4000 in a much smaller package).

This is footage from a cheap one (shot at 720p the 1080p option is not genuine 1080) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkzBGMuUAc8

This is from an M10 at 1080p https://youtu.be/1vhE3X-3eUA?t=45s
14-06-18, 08:57 PM
Badger-Roy

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Originally Posted by WR6133

If it's just a crash cam then as badger says £9.98. If you want decent 1080p footage of rides to edit, etc then stretch to an SJCam M10 (SJ4000 in a much smaller package).

This is footage from a cheap one (shot at 720p the 1080p option is not genuine 1080) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkzBGMuUAc8

This is from an M10 at 1080p https://youtu.be/1vhE3X-3eUA?t=45s

On a totally unrelated matter on your cheap camera video when you get to 2.52 there's a big grey road sign on the right. A long time ago (15+ years) I was coming the other way and VERY nearly died there when I rolled my MG metro turbo right through that sign and a fence post entered the side window and missed me by literally inches, :-0
14-06-18, 09:43 PM
BB

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Originally Posted by Badgerroy

On a totally unrelated matter on your cheap camera video when you get to 2.52 there's a big grey road sign on the right. A long time ago (15+ years) I was coming the other way and VERY nearly died there when I rolled my MG metro turbo right through that sign and a fence post entered the side window and missed me by literally inches, :-0

:eek::eek:
21-06-18, 04:37 PM
Burbler

Cheapo one just arrived. Now awaiting thingummy card.

Decisions, decisions...where to put it ?