Hello, I used to be on this forum quite a bit. I didn't post a lot but read a lot. Anyway, I have been gone for quite a while and I am now crazy busy building a trailer and modifying a vehicle for a Canada wide tour. Taking 3 months off and going 20k miles. Anyhow, I want a good dashcam. Right now I have an LS300w in one car and Aiptek X2 in another. I would like a better one for this vehicle. There are pros and cons to each that I have and I am hoping that it would be alright if I gave you guys a list of features I want and you give me recommendations of cameras to look into? I just dont have time for weeks of searching right now and it would help me out to have a few good options to choose from rather than sifting through hundreds...
-On this trip I would like to be able to save videos of interesting things we drive by easily. On my aiptek x2 you hit a button and it saves a separate read only video of 30 seconds before you hit the button and 30 seconds after. I like that feature a lot and want something similar. The LS300w just makes the 3min video its recording read only and its happened several times that whatever I wanted to save was at 2:55 or in the gap between videos. Its also a pain to find them back in all the others and to find which ones have something interesting and which are just rumble strips or big bumps. After 6 months of winter the card is almost full from read only window scraping videos...
-good picture quality of course
-front and rear camera. I want to point the rear one forward so you can see inside the car from the back window with it. Although this being a separate camera wouldn't be the worst thing but obviously much preferable to be the same.
-Largish card capacity. 32gb is what I have now and would like bigger, but im not buying a $200 card, so maybe 64-80gb range.
-not having a screen on the camera is fine if it has a good interface with a laptop or phone.
-has to either come with or have a mount available that uses double sided tape. I'm done with suction cups in -30c.
-needs to be able to handle cold, they all do right? like -40c/f
-price, I would like to stay under $400. Less is better, but at minimum same quality as the dod ls300w, I do want better picture quality than that though.
-gps/speed writing i never looked into much. if its being recorded onto the video is it possible to remove it after the fact? If so I would kinda like it but its not a deal breaker.
-what other features are important/available now?
Thanks again!
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-On this trip I would like to be able to save videos of interesting things we drive by easily. On my aiptek x2 you hit a button and it saves a separate read only video of 30 seconds before you hit the button and 30 seconds after. I like that feature a lot and want something similar. The LS300w just makes the 3min video its recording read only and its happened several times that whatever I wanted to save was at 2:55 or in the gap between videos. Its also a pain to find them back in all the others and to find which ones have something interesting and which are just rumble strips or big bumps. After 6 months of winter the card is almost full from read only window scraping videos...
-good picture quality of course
-front and rear camera. I want to point the rear one forward so you can see inside the car from the back window with it. Although this being a separate camera wouldn't be the worst thing but obviously much preferable to be the same.
-Largish card capacity. 32gb is what I have now and would like bigger, but im not buying a $200 card, so maybe 64-80gb range.
-not having a screen on the camera is fine if it has a good interface with a laptop or phone.
-has to either come with or have a mount available that uses double sided tape. I'm done with suction cups in -30c.
-needs to be able to handle cold, they all do right? like -40c/f
-price, I would like to stay under $400. Less is better, but at minimum same quality as the dod ls300w, I do want better picture quality than that though.
-gps/speed writing i never looked into much. if its being recorded onto the video is it possible to remove it after the fact? If so I would kinda like it but its not a deal breaker.
-what other features are important/available now?
Thanks again!
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