Cheap <$50 helmet cams?

JoeLansing · July 8th, 2011, 08:51 PM

I'm going to try one of the newer keychain 808 #11 cameras. I ordered one from Ebay, and an 8GB class 10 card for it from NewEgg. Does anyone else use 808 keychain cams? Here's a couple links. They seem interesting!

This is a good one. Notice the H264 and 1280x720 in the description. Also, the new ones save as 1280X720 HD H.264 mov files. http://cgi.ebay.com/808HD-11-HD-DV-K...#ht_7336wt_906

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj26J...1&feature=fvwp is a fun view.

- Joe

Jiggles · July 8th, 2011, 09:43 PM

You will probably have a difficult time attaching this to your helmet or anywhere for that matter. When I saw that this was 720p I thought it was gna run at like 6fps or something but 30fps? That's quite respectable. Then I figured that even though its 720p it must take poop video but nope takes pretty good video.

It's a pretty nice little video cam and I think the only problem you will run into is battery life and attaching it to your helmet. I had one of these a couple years ago, It wasnt HD didnt have a memory card slot, but still took relatively decent video, although it had short battery life.

I'd like to know how you plan on attaching the camera as I may do the same thing too.

JoeLansing · July 8th, 2011, 09:52 PM

The new 808 11 #3 has 100 mins of battery instead of 40 like the old ones. And it makes a new file every 50 minutes instead of 10? like the old ones did. That's why I got the 8GB chip. It should be a decent combo. I've seen guys velcro a lot larger cameras right inside their helmet. This should be a piece of cake to mount someplace? I'll hold it between my 3 front teeth!

\

Simple mount for an 808 in an HJC helmet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS4NN...eature=related

Another way simple mount http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8HjQ...eature=related
- Joe

Jiggles · July 8th, 2011, 10:32 PM

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/c5a7/

Infinite battery life anyone?

setasai · July 8th, 2011, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jiggles

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/c5a7/

Infinite battery life anyone?

When you mentioned battery life, I thought of exactly this. Except wire it to a small battery pack and put the battery pack inside your jacket pocket up to the camera. I've always considered velcroing one of those keycams to the bottom of my helmet at the chin area. I have a scorpion aeroskirt so i've got some flat space to use.

Let us know how it works for you. At some point I might try one too.

Liquidtoon · July 8th, 2011, 11:10 PM

I have (or had, cant seem to locate it at the moment) it is hard to mount, first the tiny camera in it wasnt perfectly straight so it was hard to point in the right direction, second there is no good place to tape it and yes electrical tape did seem to hold it ok but I was always watching waiting for it to fall off. Then once it was on and hopefully pointing at what you want it had a great picture and reasonable sound quality for the size/price.

the obvious ability to attach limits where you can put it and what view you can get but I have seen lots of people who ride track tape them to under tails and under the headlights with great success. Attaching it to the helmet was nearly impossible for me. and my next test was going to be taping it to my key looking at/past the dash. Never got around to testing it much because of the hassles in aligning it then seem to misplaced it.

Jiggles · July 8th, 2011, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by setasai

When you mentioned battery life, I thought of exactly this. Except wire it to a small battery pack and put the battery pack inside your jacket pocket up to the camera. I've always considered velcroing one of those keycams to the bottom of my helmet at the chin area. I have a scorpion aeroskirt so i've got some flat space to use.

Let us know how it works for you. At some point I might try one too.

The great thing about this solar generator is that it has a 1500mAh battery built into it. You could attach it to your helmet/back/gas tank and run the usb cable to the camera.

setasai · August 12th, 2011, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeLansing

I'm going to try one of the newer keychain 808 #11 cameras. I ordered one from Ebay, and an 8GB class 10 card for it from NewEgg. Does anyone else use 808 keychain cams? Here's a couple links. They seem interesting!

This is a good one. Notice the H264 and 1280x720 in the description. Also, the new ones save as 1280X720 HD H.264 mov files. http://cgi.ebay.com/808HD-11-HD-DV-K...#ht_7336wt_906

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj26J...1&feature=fvwp is a fun view.

- Joe

Did you end up getting it? How well did it work out?

Bosgarage57 · August 13th, 2011, 09:44 AM

I've "Heard" they work really well. Seems like they are just like $10 on ebay. Over on SBN peepz have used them.

ninja250 · August 13th, 2011, 10:17 AM

I have bought a couple solar iphone chargers on ebay and they all take a crap on me or just barely sustain a charge and not help to actually charge the battery up.

You guys may have sold me on the kaychain camera though. Doesn't look so bad with 100 minutes batt life and 30 fps HD..
Link me to the right one! I'll put them all over my stunt ninja when she is done and get multiple angles. If my tiny iphone cameras can take such good video, no reason not to try one of these.

I just need a good free video editing software that my laptop can handle. lol
It won't even handle the windows movie software included with windows 7. =(

Bosgarage57 · August 13th, 2011, 10:25 AM

Check out this post talking about them:
http://www.ninja250forum.com/index.p...32687#msg32687

csmith12 · August 13th, 2011, 10:43 AM

I am currently looking into these also. But not as a helmet cam, but mounting the cam on the bike as a more semi-permanent thing. I am looking at this mod http://forums.ninja250.org/viewtopic...=usb+gps+cable to maintain constant power. A simple ebay search of those cams reveal car chargers and battery packs to extend the recording time. Combine that with a 32gb card and one should be good to go. If not get 2 32gb cards.

If one was set on a helmet mount, in theory, one should be able to get a battery pack, put in your pocket and run the charge cable just like you would some headphones. As shown in this ebay cam (http://cgi.ebay.com/HD-Cam-DV-KeyCha...ht_5755wt_1163). Get some good velcro tape and rock on.

For me, I wanted it to be a little more seamless. At the most I just want to swap mem cards during a rest stop.

ninja250 · August 13th, 2011, 10:52 AM

Here the guy compares two of these cameras on his motorcycle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgtTg...feature=relmfu
the 808 and y3000.
He said the 3000 is nicer for the motorcycle?

Looks like it is better at properly exposing images also and taking up less space on the memory card.. if you have a high capacity good quality card.

July 8th, 2011, 09:43 PM	#2
Jiggles Jigglin' your Jiglets Name: Sean Location: San Jose, Ca Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 1 MOTM - Apr '13	You will probably have a difficult time attaching this to your helmet or anywhere for that matter. When I saw that this was 720p I thought it was gna run at like 6fps or something but 30fps? That's quite respectable. Then I figured that even though its 720p it must take poop video but nope takes pretty good video. It's a pretty nice little video cam and I think the only problem you will run into is battery life and attaching it to your helmet. I had one of these a couple years ago, It wasnt HD didnt have a memory card slot, but still took relatively decent video, although it had short battery life. I'd like to know how you plan on attaching the camera as I may do the same thing too. __________________________________________________ If the Ninja 250 doesn't have enough power for you, then you don't know how to ride it. AFM #676 Supersports are for n00bs

July 8th, 2011, 10:32 PM	#4
Jiggles Jigglin' your Jiglets Name: Sean Location: San Jose, Ca Join Date: Jun 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2009 K1300S, 2013 Ninja 300, 2011 Ninja 250R, Faster than Unregistered's ninjette Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 1 MOTM - Apr '13	http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/c5a7/ Infinite battery life anyone? __________________________________________________ If the Ninja 250 doesn't have enough power for you, then you don't know how to ride it. AFM #676 Supersports are for n00bs

August 13th, 2011, 10:43 AM	#12
csmith12 The Corner Whisperer Name: Chris (aka Reactor) Location: Northern KY Join Date: May 2011 Motorcycle(s): 2010 250 (track), 1992 250, 2006 R6 (street/track), 2008 R6 (track) Posts: Too much. MOTY 2015, MOTM - Nov '12, Nov '13	I am currently looking into these also. But not as a helmet cam, but mounting the cam on the bike as a more semi-permanent thing. I am looking at this mod http://forums.ninja250.org/viewtopic...=usb+gps+cable to maintain constant power. A simple ebay search of those cams reveal car chargers and battery packs to extend the recording time. Combine that with a 32gb card and one should be good to go. If not get 2 32gb cards. If one was set on a helmet mount, in theory, one should be able to get a battery pack, put in your pocket and run the charge cable just like you would some headphones. As shown in this ebay cam (http://cgi.ebay.com/HD-Cam-DV-KeyCha...ht_5755wt_1163). Get some good velcro tape and rock on. For me, I wanted it to be a little more seamless. At the most I just want to swap mem cards during a rest stop. __________________________________________________ Goal: Shake A Million Hands \| Look through the corners \| Track Day Prep \| Closest track? \| The Mid-Ohio School

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July 8th, 2011, 08:51 PM	#1
JoeLansing ninjette.org member Name: Joe Location: Lansing, MI Ghetto Join Date: May 2011 Motorcycle(s): Green 2011 SE 52yo Geezer Posts: 122	Cheap <$50 helmet cams? I'm going to try one of the newer keychain 808 #11 cameras. I ordered one from Ebay, and an 8GB class 10 card for it from NewEgg. Does anyone else use 808 keychain cams? Here's a couple links. They seem interesting! This is a good one. Notice the H264 and 1280x720 in the description. Also, the new ones save as 1280X720 HD H.264 mov files. http://cgi.ebay.com/808HD-11-HD-DV-K...#ht_7336wt_906 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj26J...1&feature=fvwp is a fun view. - Joe

July 8th, 2011, 09:52 PM	#3
JoeLansing ninjette.org member Name: Joe Location: Lansing, MI Ghetto Join Date: May 2011 Motorcycle(s): Green 2011 SE 52yo Geezer Posts: 122	The new 808 11 #3 has 100 mins of battery instead of 40 like the old ones. And it makes a new file every 50 minutes instead of 10? like the old ones did. That's why I got the 8GB chip. It should be a decent combo. I've seen guys velcro a lot larger cameras right inside their helmet. This should be a piece of cake to mount someplace? I'll hold it between my 3 front teeth! \ Simple mount for an 808 in an HJC helmet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS4NN...eature=related Another way simple mount http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8HjQ...eature=related - Joe

July 8th, 2011, 11:10 PM	#6
Liquidtoon ninjette.org member Name: Josh Location: Sacramento, Ca Join Date: Jul 2010 Motorcycle(s): 09 Ninja 250r Posts: 215	I have (or had, cant seem to locate it at the moment) it is hard to mount, first the tiny camera in it wasnt perfectly straight so it was hard to point in the right direction, second there is no good place to tape it and yes electrical tape did seem to hold it ok but I was always watching waiting for it to fall off. Then once it was on and hopefully pointing at what you want it had a great picture and reasonable sound quality for the size/price. the obvious ability to attach limits where you can put it and what view you can get but I have seen lots of people who ride track tape them to under tails and under the headlights with great success. Attaching it to the helmet was nearly impossible for me. and my next test was going to be taping it to my key looking at/past the dash. Never got around to testing it much because of the hassles in aligning it then seem to misplaced it.

August 13th, 2011, 09:44 AM	#9
Bosgarage57 ninjette.org sage Name: Luke Location: Sevierville, TN Join Date: May 2011 Motorcycle(s): 06 Buell Uly, 05 VStar 1100 Posts: 577	I've "Heard" they work really well. Seems like they are just like $10 on ebay. Over on SBN peepz have used them.

August 13th, 2011, 10:17 AM	#10
ninja250 You are sleeping Name: Casey Location: LMFAO!!! Join Date: Nov 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2 Posts: A lot.	I have bought a couple solar iphone chargers on ebay and they all take a crap on me or just barely sustain a charge and not help to actually charge the battery up. You guys may have sold me on the kaychain camera though. Doesn't look so bad with 100 minutes batt life and 30 fps HD.. Link me to the right one! I'll put them all over my stunt ninja when she is done and get multiple angles. If my tiny iphone cameras can take such good video, no reason not to try one of these. I just need a good free video editing software that my laptop can handle. lol It won't even handle the windows movie software included with windows 7. =(

August 13th, 2011, 10:25 AM	#11
Bosgarage57 ninjette.org sage Name: Luke Location: Sevierville, TN Join Date: May 2011 Motorcycle(s): 06 Buell Uly, 05 VStar 1100 Posts: 577	Check out this post talking about them: http://www.ninja250forum.com/index.p...32687#msg32687

August 13th, 2011, 10:52 AM	#13
ninja250 You are sleeping Name: Casey Location: LMFAO!!! Join Date: Nov 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2 Posts: A lot.	Here the guy compares two of these cameras on his motorcycle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgtTg...feature=relmfu the 808 and y3000. He said the 3000 is nicer for the motorcycle? Looks like it is better at properly exposing images also and taking up less space on the memory card.. if you have a high capacity good quality card.