Idea's for in car cam

[Ski]

Hi Guys

For a very long time now Ive always wanted a camera behind the grill, with capabilities to record to some device which later can be transfered onto a PC.

I know within the RC world they have tiny camera's mounted to them worth £60 and they transmit to a receiver, which is plugged into a camera, which records onto a tape

I would like to know what options I have. What camera to use? how to record? any idea's are much appreciated.

[topsparky]

i have used a reversing camera b4 now have a look on flea bay under cctv

[rotoryboy]

Depends on the quality you want and the price your willing to pay

Linky

[Keeper of The Kitten]

Go on Ski, tell us why!!!

__MDC__

[HPmuirt]

If you want to record it as video, rather than stills, then I would go for a small MPEG-4 camera running CIF resolution at simple profile. That would allow you to tune the output to the required quality (still crappy in my opinion, but then I work with broadcast quality video), but still be a low enough bandwidth to record. PC webcams are similar to this, although often only QCIF quality.

I would record onto a flash device (1 to 4 GB flash card) rather than tape or hard disk, to illiminate any moving parts.

Depending on what you actually want this for, I would be tempted to use all PC parts (webcam, flash drive etc).

Cheers n

Si

[Ski]

rotory : that look ideal, just hooks direct into a home camera?

keeper : to record history (also thinking about nuremburgring)

Si : that setup seems on the poor quality side, specially frames per second

keep em coming