Buying guide: The best compact sports video camera for bikers
by: Stephen Surgener
Posted on: Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm by: Stephen Surgener
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Absolutely nothing kills the high of a great bike ride like the phrase “You should have seen it!” If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then video of your bike ride is priceless. With the latest sports camera available through
cameras4sports.co.uk
you can get priceless for around $600.
Recording video of your ride
This sunglass mounted, pinhole video sports camera comes complete with microphone, and is by far the most extreme product available for capturing your most extreme biking moments. Simply put on the shades, and plug them into an iPod styled recorder capable of capturing up to 3 hours of continuous footage on a single charge. That’s right, iPod style. Even though this recorder is an MPEG4, plays downloaded movies, all your MP3 tunes, and looks just like an iPod, it isn’t. Not to worry, universal integration possibilities abound. Digital images recorded onto the SD chip of your choosing (up to 2 gigabytes) can be downloaded into your laptop, manipulated by your favorite editing program, and burned onto DVD with X-Games quality footage.
Mutli-functional tools: Digital movie and music player
When not recording, this multi functional unit can provide up to 15 hours of your favorite tunes to enhance the biking experience. For down times, enjoy your favorite movies, or relive the day’s journeys, viewing them on the over sized, high-resolution display screen. And don’t worry about the weather. The pinhole design is not susceptible to fogged images because of cold or rain. And with the purchase of an available armband carrying pouch, keeping the recorder dry is easy.
Overall, the sunglass mounted sports camera is pound for pound, easily the best buy; literally. The only place I have found this product available is in the UK where it retails for 305 pounds, and only from cameras4sports.co.uk. Additionally, the manufacturer of this product is not mentioned. However, I was able to track down a BBC press release, referring to Hewlett Packard of Bristol, UK, developing the worlds first sunglass mounted video recorder. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not, I will leave that up to you to decide.
Despite the mystery surrounding the party responsible for providing the biking community with such a versatile product, the fact remains you would be hard pressed to find a more economical way to immortalize the highs, and lows, of your biking adventures. You can review, purchase, and even preview the image quality of this remarkable sports camera at Cameras4sports.co.uk .
