Need a low-quality footage (small file size) dash cam please

[Herr Vents]

Hello there

New member so go easy on me please (not that I'm doing myself any favours with a daft opening request!)

I have a Transcend DrivePro 200 as my main camera in the front, a Mobius as a rear and a Mobius looking right for people straight-lining the mini-roundabout at the end of my road.

However, the crux of my situation is I also have an aged (September 2012) Roadhawk DC-1 which is mounted in the front which I try to back-up in its entirety although it's never the end of the world if I miss any of it. However, due to my work, it's good to remember where I've been and when and saves me from a lot of paperwork.

However the DC-1 is failing from time to time and backing up from the higher-res cameras is a no-no due to the file sizes. On the Roadhawk, a minute of footage (mediocre footage, admittedly) is 16Mb. Are there any of the current crop of cheapish cameras that can be de-tuned to record and take up that sort of space. Or even close?

Thanks for your help.

Regards

HV

 

[jokiin]

maybe another Mobius and just drop down to lower res and bitrate for archive purposes?

 

[Herr Vents]

maybe another Mobius and just drop down to lower res and bitrate for archive purposes?

Cheers jokiin.

I love the Mobius dearly in terms of output but since putting the super-capacitor in I've found them impossible to change anything on. A problem with me more than the device, but they're a bit too Heath Robinson for my liking. It's too years since I've operated on them and forgotten all I ever knew, which wasn't a lot - but I swore then "never again..."

 

[2000rpm]

Some low-quality cams also have low-quality firmware which creates 720p files that are as large as high-end cams' 1080p files.

I agree with a mid-spec cam running a lower resolution such as 720p, although that could mean the field of view is only two-thirds of a 1080p recording due to a lot of cams just cropping the edges of 1080p to create 720p.
Running the largest possible clip length seems to allow a little more recording time; in some cams, with a 32GB card, a single thirty-minute clip only takes up around three-quarters the memory space of thirty individual one-minute clips. However, the larger the file size the greater the risk of missing or losing an important event due to a malfunction.