Advanced Tactical Camera-Updated with video

[bigc]

I purchased the Advanced Tactical Camera from www.uscav.com when it dropped in price and I had my normal 10% discount, I think I paid around $170 for it. The following are the specs from the USCav.com page:

Record the crucial record of events in any use of force or training scenario with the Advanced Tactical Camera (ATC). Attached to your helmet or weapon, the ATC is the perfect inexpensive tool for training and accountability in real mission deployments. Engineered specifically for military and law enforcement to withstand the harsh recoil of a weapon.

Waterproof up to 10 feet (3 meters)
Shock resistant for extreme conditions
640x480 VGA resolution at 30 frames per second
32mb onboard memory (good for about 5 minutes)
SD card expansion slot allows you to record to inexpensive SD card media (up to 2Gb) NOTE: SD card not included
Mount Type: Weaver or Picatinny
Manufacturer's 1-year warranty
Operates on two "AA" batteries (approximately 2 hours of use on a set of batteries) NOTE: Batteries not included
Voltage: 3V
Luminous Intensity: 001 Lux
Weight: 8ozs. (55mg)
Dimensions: 4.25" x 1.75" x 2.25 (10.8cm x 4.4cm x 5.7cm)
Imported
Color: Black

Overall I am happy with the product, build quality is very good for the price, vid quality is good for what it is, and audio is what I expected at ok. The thing that pisses me off about the cam is that I could have bought it from my own company for less than one hundred bucks under the Oregon Scientific brand that only lacks the picatinney rail mount/ring!

www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Oregon-Scientific-Action-Cam-AT18-BLRB/sem/rpsm/oid/195520/catOid/-13063/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

The manual says it will take up to a 2Gb SD card so of course I tried a 4Gb card to find it did not work, if you pick one of these cams up just stick with the 2Gb cards.

I will use this at Rolling Thunder 2 to get some "appropriate" vids up but I did test it out and it does in fact work well.

Here are some pics:





I think I will need to get a 1911 with a rail now to use this to review my runs threw the IDPA/IPSC type shoots.

EDIT: I added this vid I made in the workshop.

[Boondock Saint]

Yes! I saw this when I was surfing uscav. In fact, with the 10% it was around $150. Cant wait to see some footage.

[bigc]

Added video 4/20/08

[Clampitt]

Not a bad camera. Just so I know, about how far away from those targets were you most of the time. Because I know some cameras make you seem like you're much farther away than you normally are. And there was just as much footage as the was credits and misc., I thought that was pretty funny.

Can't wait to see some "real" footage from that little thing, seems cool.

[bigc]

Haha, I don't have a memory card for it yet so I was just using the internal memory. Not a whole lot of time to record with that! I thought people would get a kick out of the credits.

The distance looks to be pretty accurate, I will be recording some action at Rolling Thunder 2 next weekend.

[Clampitt]

Awesome, Any idea on record time with the 2gb card?

[bigc]

I think it was 56 minutes in best quality all the way to 7 hours from the lowest quality.

[Thor]

Awesome video C. Although, I couldn't help but notice that one of your hostages had a very nice triple tap in their cranium, at about half way through the video. Unless of course, you just reused a different target and painted it up to be a hostage.

[bigc]

Haha, that was from a previous "conflict". Sometimes the hostage takes it for the team.

[vexic]

haha good luck at rolling thunder 2 10 friends of mine are going

[vexic]

and very nice cam

[bigc]

Thanks vexic!

BTW, instead of double posting in the future can you just modify your original post. By doing this it keeps the post whores away.

[Judge]

Looks awesome C. Just one thing though, anyway to hook it up to a small screen and monitor it as it records?

Remember, If you can see whats around the corner, its not technically "blind"fire, now is it?

[bigc]

It has video out but I don't know if it works while that is plugged in, I will have to check it out.

[Judge]

Man that'd be too cool. GRAW-ish Gun Cam anyone? Now someone needs to release an airsoft MR-C, Im waiting VFC...