Digital Camcorders for long road trip.

Hey guys! I have been looking everywhere for a good camera forum to ask this but they all seem like idiots, so I'll ask here just incase someone knows, or knows of someone in the know..

As some of you know I'm going for a 3 week roadtrip to the arctic and we'd like to film as much as we can of the trip. We're looking for atleast 2 cheap cameras which don't mind being used and abused and filming for a long period of time . As for memory we'd like to use SD cards as these are cheap and we can fill them up, mark them with the time and date then store them ready to be edited into a feature film.
The cameras themselves will need to have a reasonable battery life (we will take spare batterys and chargers to keep a constant flow of power) and also should be able to fit these in-car mountings:

compare.ebay.co.uk/like/160859767611?var...&var=sbar&adtype=pla

Wide angled lense would be ideal for filming in a cramped jimny. We'll also use them for filming outside the car.

Thanks to anyone who can help, been looking EVERYWHERE for something and I'm now i'm a little stuck!

The gopros look good but are a bit pricey. They are made for what you want to do. Personally and shoot the video on your android phone with a 32gb sd card and by a dash mount for it. Can use it as a sat nav as well then.

After some hours of searching I've found these: www.7dayshop.com/photo-and-video/cameras...d-your-journeys?cl=4

Seems.perfect! Also good for off-roading

Don't waste your money on those.

I did, I bought two, both in the bin after a couple of uses, rubbish.

Damn. Back the the drawing board! What did you use instead?

This is taken by a $45 Aiptek camera sitting on my hat on the dash. Obviously you only get what you pay for. A rigid mount would improve things and I will get one soon.



Otway ranges is a great drive though!

This video is shot from my Samsung ES30 camera. Didn't have the steady-cam feature on but I reckon it takes better video than the dedicated video camera and only about $70. Takes brilliant 12.2mega pixel shots and is simple to use.

Hand-held camera in my D7H...

Be wary of cheap SD cards. I have had several corrupt and wipe out valuable once in a life time photos.

For video get ones that are Class 10 or above so they can write data at a speed that keeps up with the camera.

Also if possible have a method of backing the cards up, say onto a portable harddrive, laptop etc.

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Yeah that'll be important! Do you know if you can get an adapter, records from micro SD card slot to hard drive?

Here is link to some portable hard drives that have SD and microSD slots so that you can transfer your cards pics on the go...

Click here to see for yourself! :woohoo:

GuardianAngel wrote: Here is link to some portable hard drives that have SD and microSD slots so that you can transfer your cards pics on the go...

Click here to see for yourself! :woohoo:

Beware of cheap ones of these as well! I had one fail on a holiday in Iceland along with an SD card.

On my last holiday I backed up my SD cards to my Samsung GS2 phone using a micro USB to SD card dongle. Got it from Amazon (Startech multimedia card adapter for about £. My phone has a 32GB internal card so it had plenty of backup storage to hold 2 weeks worth of high res photos (several thousand).

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£8 it was meant to say!

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