Archos 605 WiFi helmet cam

Oxman

Oxman

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Been using the French made Archos 605 personal media player (PMP) for about a month. Just ordered the helmet cam attachment for it.

This device is a portable hard drive with a touch screen, running a wireless WiFi connection to any intenet source.

It records audio & video, exchanges photos, video, podcasts, & .PDF files via a USB, S-Video, Composite, and Component Video cables. It lets you download pay per view movies, etc. from the Archos website, watch cable TV, and tons more fun stuff. An infrared remote control lets you type, scroll, and navigate handily.

It has way more features than I have had a chance to use so far, but the best thing is the high quality LCD display screen. It comes in 3.5", 4.3", and 7" diagonally measured screens. Storage options are SD card slot, 30 gb, 80gb, and 160gb hard disk drive.

The lipstick cam has 420 lines of resolution, and an inline control panel on the wire.
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oxman, i looked into these, still havent ruled one out. the fact that you dont need a seperate power pack to power the camera is a huge plus....the main let down though is you apparently cant change the lenses and you really want a wide angled lens. i saw one ebay seller claiming to sell wide angled lenses for them, but i asked a legit dealer, he said they dont fit.....who do you believe?
be interested to see your footage though!
 
These new fangled helmet cam gizmos strike my curiosity. My old school system rocks with pro digital video tape recorder, 520 line cam, helmet mounted eyeglass piece for seeing exactly what the cam sees, battery packs, mics, expensive unit for sure, but really top quality. Big heavy and bulky.

But these new things, light weight, cheap, easy? I don't know.

I'd have to see and hear the quality of the final product to believe they can produce good video and audio.
 
gerry...they dont produce as good quality....except some of the newer mpeg2 solid state recorders but you are looking at near $1000 for one of those
 
gerry, check out that pov1 setup....ve been reading up on that, seems to be the hottest thing at the moment. i might buy one when im in the states, save myself a couple hundred quid.
 
The set up I've been thinking of is using a nNovia A2D Quickcapture, you can use any analog camera, also has a remote to start and stop recording. Saves video digitally in avi or mov files, ready for editing. you can get an LCD screen to monitor if you want to.

these are usually used for tapeless backups in the film industry.

very high quality.

they sell 60 , 80 and now 120GB units. The new ones have changable catriges for the storage.

you can hook up to any camcorder or analog camera.

can get 6 hours on the 120GB unit I think. And I heard recently a 6hr battery pack.

I thought I'd put an anolog camera on the hardhat, put the recorder in a backpack along with the battery pack. Start/stop control on the hardhat too with mic.

I'll get some links to sites later if i have time, or just search for nNovia A2D Quickcapture.

But I'm no expert on this stuff, just seemed like this would be a good way to go.
 
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