Post by Psychosis on Sept 25, 2008 0:50:33 GMT -5
I took the liberty of purchasing a helmet camera for Irene and future airsoft games. I chose the Oregon Scientific ATC3K since it was selling for a reasonable price, ~$130 (I personally bought it for about $138 with a 4GB SD card included.) Will probably post a more thorough review later, but here are some initial thoughts:
- It's very simple to operate.
- Video quality is pretty good at 640x480 VGA.
- It's not really suited for low-light conditions.
- The rubber strap to attach it to a helmet seems secure enough to keep it on the helmet, but it's not very stable in terms of keeping the camera from bouncing up and down in place.
- Going along with attaching it to a helmet, it seems more secure on a k-pot replica than a protec classic helmet - I guess I'll have to be Ranger instead of Delta at Irene? I was going to get a new protec anyway, so we'll see how that works out, haha.
- Uses SD cards for me that's a plus since I can just plug the card(s) straight into my laptop.
- The estimated filming rate is 1 hour VGA for a 2GB card, 2 hours for a 4 gig. I have both a 2 gig and a 4 gig card, which would theoretically last long enough for a Michigan game, though I'd have to watch what occasions I leave the camera on at Irene for.
- Sound quality is below what I was expecting. I wasn't expecting it to be amazing, just not as grainy and low-volume as it's turned out so far.
- It does a great job of amplifying any noise that you might be generating, such as the creaking of a really old protec helmet. I guess I had higher goals after watching sweet helmet cam footage from other events, namely older Irenes. I figure worse comes to worse, I'll just turn off sound recording completely.
More to come after I run it through its paces some more.
- It's very simple to operate.
- Video quality is pretty good at 640x480 VGA.
- It's not really suited for low-light conditions.
- The rubber strap to attach it to a helmet seems secure enough to keep it on the helmet, but it's not very stable in terms of keeping the camera from bouncing up and down in place.
- Going along with attaching it to a helmet, it seems more secure on a k-pot replica than a protec classic helmet - I guess I'll have to be Ranger instead of Delta at Irene? I was going to get a new protec anyway, so we'll see how that works out, haha.
- Uses SD cards for me that's a plus since I can just plug the card(s) straight into my laptop.
- The estimated filming rate is 1 hour VGA for a 2GB card, 2 hours for a 4 gig. I have both a 2 gig and a 4 gig card, which would theoretically last long enough for a Michigan game, though I'd have to watch what occasions I leave the camera on at Irene for.
- Sound quality is below what I was expecting. I wasn't expecting it to be amazing, just not as grainy and low-volume as it's turned out so far.
- It does a great job of amplifying any noise that you might be generating, such as the creaking of a really old protec helmet. I guess I had higher goals after watching sweet helmet cam footage from other events, namely older Irenes. I figure worse comes to worse, I'll just turn off sound recording completely.
More to come after I run it through its paces some more.
