Hey guys, I am thinking about buying a camcorder to mount on my bike and was wondering if anyone could suggest a good one. I don't know much about them. I would like to be able to take some good still pictures with it also and also be able to hook a helmet cam to it in the future. If you could post some pic.s of yours and how you mounted it would be grateful. Would i need one with the image stabilization also? Thanks in advance for the help.
Mr Ball, to answer your original question, most modern camcorders you buy will have the image stabilization built in already. One bit of advice is you can't use a CD-Rom type, a camcorder that saves directly to a CD. We've tried that and the vibration was too much. Mini-DV worked great, but those are becoming more obsolete in favor of just memory sticks. Don't think I would spend a zillion bucks on the camcorder either, I slowly beat mine to hell have recording about 20 some hours of ride video over peroid of a year.
Also note in the old days, we'd simply plug the bullet cam into the camcorder, but am told those types of inputs are becoming more rare. Plus the afttermarket suppliers of the bullet cams (like MotoComm & MotoCam) have all gone to proprietary plugs.
Back then it was ChaseCam.com that we were using to shoot all our video.
Nowadays, both ChaseCam, MotoCam, MotoComm, VioSport, The Elmo, etc all over complete units ranging from $300-$2000+ for a self contained system.
I sell/stock the MotoComm, which is a good entry level system for your basic user. Complete kit at a reasonable price. Buy Now is here.
I could go on, but will leave ya with that.
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