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Most will do short recording IE 1min shots but they do it till they overwrite and record an entire journey, I want one that records only 10mins and will save events with a remote button, which I'm not seeing any doing, looking at the one above the privacy mode will only record from the point you press it which is too late because by the time you press it what ever happened has gone.
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Welcome to the forum sg66.
The segment size are often user selectable and something like 1-2-3-5-10 minutes most often.
Most dashcams also have a manual event button you can press if you experience something you want to save / share.
Some will also create events on G-sensor activation as not all have a off setting for this, but these days low will ensure you dont get very many such events in a week, well at least with the conditions of Danish streets and my some times,,,,, emmmmm frisky driving style.
All dashcans will start recording on car / engine on, this is sort of the main thing of dashcams, meaning the user do not have to remember to start a recording.
But you can stop it with a press of a button, and again later start recording by a press of the same button, this is however not a MO most users would like.
Pressing the event button most often have a pre buffer but just a few seconds, i do personally prefer the systems that save whole ( current ) segments, and even more so systems ( there are none now ) that will save 2 whole segments depending on where you are in the current segment.
So say you use 3 minute segment size, and are 2 minutes into the current segment when you press the button, the old street guardian cameras would then save the current + the following 3 minite segments, so 2 X 3 minutes saved ( from each camera in system )
On the other hand if you are just 1 minute into current segment and press event button the current will still be saved in its entirety but also the previous 3 minute segment, so in this case you will have 4 minutes from before event button press and 2 minutes after.
This is very nice CUZ no stress pressing the event button.
The systems now that save current segment, that is also fine, aside if when you press button the segment have just started and so you might only have 3 seconds from before button press and 2 minutes and 57 seconds after ( assuming you use 3 minute segments )
And as i said the buffered kind, well you might have 10 -20 seconds before, assuming you are very fast in pressing the button.
BUT ! with a ample size memory card, even if you have been temporary dazed and so not pressing event button only " long " after the event. well the recording are still there in among the normal footage, well at least if you do not just drive on for hours on end or use say a 4 GB memory card which will have room for very little footage ( today everyone should use 256 GB memory cards no matter the system,,,,, at least )
This mean even if you get shunted down a cliff and are only found half a day later and your car still running, even then the accident will still be there, cuz your system have not yet started to recycle and reached the event recorded.
As i said for serious things you can use the G-sensor in the camera, that will at once lock footage down as read only footage, just not have the G-sensor go off too often generating false events.
Personally i do not like G-sensor on while driving, but the little things in traffic i do use the event button to save or at least if i have been slow reaching the button / busy screaming my head off, well the event will still act like a time marker for when something happened, then just go find it among regular footage.
BUT there are no manual record dashcams, automation is pretty much the biggest part of these.
EDIT; some new dashcams also have voice commands for various things.
With dashgcams there are often one or two compromise to be made, depending on what you are looking / hoping for.
Number #1 priority should always be image quality.
The segment size are often user selectable and something like 1-2-3-5-10 minutes most often.
Most dashcams also have a manual event button you can press if you experience something you want to save / share.
Some will also create events on G-sensor activation as not all have a off setting for this, but these days low will ensure you dont get very many such events in a week, well at least with the conditions of Danish streets and my some times,,,,, emmmmm frisky driving style.
All dashcans will start recording on car / engine on, this is sort of the main thing of dashcams, meaning the user do not have to remember to start a recording.
But you can stop it with a press of a button, and again later start recording by a press of the same button, this is however not a MO most users would like.
Pressing the event button most often have a pre buffer but just a few seconds, i do personally prefer the systems that save whole ( current ) segments, and even more so systems ( there are none now ) that will save 2 whole segments depending on where you are in the current segment.
So say you use 3 minute segment size, and are 2 minutes into the current segment when you press the button, the old street guardian cameras would then save the current + the following 3 minite segments, so 2 X 3 minutes saved ( from each camera in system )
On the other hand if you are just 1 minute into current segment and press event button the current will still be saved in its entirety but also the previous 3 minute segment, so in this case you will have 4 minutes from before event button press and 2 minutes after.
This is very nice CUZ no stress pressing the event button.
The systems now that save current segment, that is also fine, aside if when you press button the segment have just started and so you might only have 3 seconds from before button press and 2 minutes and 57 seconds after ( assuming you use 3 minute segments )
And as i said the buffered kind, well you might have 10 -20 seconds before, assuming you are very fast in pressing the button.
BUT ! with a ample size memory card, even if you have been temporary dazed and so not pressing event button only " long " after the event. well the recording are still there in among the normal footage, well at least if you do not just drive on for hours on end or use say a 4 GB memory card which will have room for very little footage ( today everyone should use 256 GB memory cards no matter the system,,,,, at least )
This mean even if you get shunted down a cliff and are only found half a day later and your car still running, even then the accident will still be there, cuz your system have not yet started to recycle and reached the event recorded.
As i said for serious things you can use the G-sensor in the camera, that will at once lock footage down as read only footage, just not have the G-sensor go off too often generating false events.
Personally i do not like G-sensor on while driving, but the little things in traffic i do use the event button to save or at least if i have been slow reaching the button / busy screaming my head off, well the event will still act like a time marker for when something happened, then just go find it among regular footage.
BUT there are no manual record dashcams, automation is pretty much the biggest part of these.
EDIT; some new dashcams also have voice commands for various things.
With dashgcams there are often one or two compromise to be made, depending on what you are looking / hoping for.
Number #1 priority should always be image quality.
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