Hi all, I thought I'd check with you all here for some suggestions.
We're an Ambulance crew who currently use a G1w we all purchased to protect ourselves when driving an emergency ambulance. Our employer does not fit cameras in their vehicles, we operate the current camera on a station level after a colleague got into an accident which wasn't their fault and ended up stuck with legal bills that could have been avoided with video evidence in their favour.
We chose a G1w because of the good reviews and price and for a year now it has served us well. Unfortunately this week it has died, it seems it may have had some sort of component failure as the screen just shows garbled mess and often refused to even turn on. Flexing the camera seems to influence what mess is displayed too which leads me to believe it may have had a circuitry failure.
We also found that the plastic clip mount has not faired well and towards the end of its life we have had to secure it to the mount using rubber bands. In short, she's dead.
We are now looking for a replacement and i've been tasked with this.
I'd like a camera with a sturdier mount, this camera often has to be taken out of the vehicle and moved to others (spare ambulance during our regular vehicles servicing etc) so needs to withstand this. We also cannot affix any sort of sticky pad to the windscreen, it must use a suction mount.
I like the 801/805 type cameras for their size and performance, ideally we would get one of those but the sticky pad mount is a problem. It also seems that the clip style mount would likely not survive repeated removals, especially in the less than gentle hands of some of my colleagues.
We're UK based and would ideally source the camera from here too to avoid excessive postal delays from HK etc.
Any suggestions? I suppose around 50GBP would be our budget limit.
Many thanks!
We're an Ambulance crew who currently use a G1w we all purchased to protect ourselves when driving an emergency ambulance. Our employer does not fit cameras in their vehicles, we operate the current camera on a station level after a colleague got into an accident which wasn't their fault and ended up stuck with legal bills that could have been avoided with video evidence in their favour.
We chose a G1w because of the good reviews and price and for a year now it has served us well. Unfortunately this week it has died, it seems it may have had some sort of component failure as the screen just shows garbled mess and often refused to even turn on. Flexing the camera seems to influence what mess is displayed too which leads me to believe it may have had a circuitry failure.
We also found that the plastic clip mount has not faired well and towards the end of its life we have had to secure it to the mount using rubber bands. In short, she's dead.
We are now looking for a replacement and i've been tasked with this.
I'd like a camera with a sturdier mount, this camera often has to be taken out of the vehicle and moved to others (spare ambulance during our regular vehicles servicing etc) so needs to withstand this. We also cannot affix any sort of sticky pad to the windscreen, it must use a suction mount.
I like the 801/805 type cameras for their size and performance, ideally we would get one of those but the sticky pad mount is a problem. It also seems that the clip style mount would likely not survive repeated removals, especially in the less than gentle hands of some of my colleagues.
We're UK based and would ideally source the camera from here too to avoid excessive postal delays from HK etc.
Any suggestions? I suppose around 50GBP would be our budget limit.
Many thanks!
