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Posted by dwbeckett on Monday, March 29, 2010 10:42 AM

So It's push button many time's and hope it workee

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Posted by Jerry Barnes on Sunday, March 28, 2010 7:47 PM

Also post your instructions, I have one on order.

 

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Posted by ttrigg on Saturday, March 27, 2010 5:59 PM

cudaken
  Have you gave it a try yet? Ken

Yes, I have tried it.  Trying to understand the "Chinglish" (Chinese-English) is a bit rough.  I have tried it about six time on the RR and all I get is about 4~6 seconds of video.  I have a 5 minute segment where it recorded while I was walking around the yard.  It is just that I need to figure out what buttons I pushed then.  It will take a bunch more experimenting to get a video of decent lenght.  As for the quality of the video, it is great.

Example of the instructions, (exact reproduction)

1. Enter the video mode in turn off status, long time press OFF / ON button till yellow light on, long time press (video camera button) tillyellow light flash three time, light off enter into video mode, then click (video / camera button) yellow light on for stop and saved ,long time press OFF /. ON switch off.

There is no paragraph 2.  Once I figure out how to use it I will be posting a vid.

 

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Posted by cudaken on Saturday, March 27, 2010 5:18 AM

 Have you gave it a try yet?

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Posted by ttrigg on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:44 PM

OK: It arrived in the mail today.  Probably too dark outside for a true test, Plus I need to go get an Micro SD card.  Here is a pic of the true size, it is inbetween my cell phone and wireless mouse for the laptop.  I get home around 12:30 tommorrow afternoon and will try my first vid then.

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Posted by cudaken on Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:56 AM

 Tom, thanks for the up date and you took the words right out of my mouth. I bought some tress from a company in China and it took the same time frame. By the time I got them I as done with that section.

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Posted by ttrigg on Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:15 AM

This is one time where the phrase "it took a slow boat from China" is a correct statement. As you can clearly see, there is no screen on this thing, so aiming it is a "by gosh by golly" hope it is pointed in the right direction. You can look forward to seeing a sample of the video quality around mid April.

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Posted by ttrigg on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:43 PM

Ken:

Short story = No.

Long story: I ordered it on Saturday, put this post here on Sunday. On Monday evening I got an e-mail dated Tuesday stating that my package had been delivered to Hong Kong Post! With the following "The estimated arrival time of your item is from 2010-03-24 to 2010-04-02." Guess I should have done a bit more reading before I paid for it.

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Posted by Jerry Barnes on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:12 PM

 Luckily, my sweet wife has a PC!

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Posted by cudaken on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:36 PM

ttigg have you received the camera yet?

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Monday, March 15, 2010 6:23 AM

Ray Dunakin
No Mac support -- bummer.

Funny how they never mention that in those sarcastic Apple adds where they denigrate PCs.

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Posted by Ray Dunakin on Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:15 PM
No Mac support -- bummer.
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Posted by ttrigg on Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:30 PM

Here are the "Tech Spec's" as posted on the site. 

 

Parameters:

Pixel :2000000 color CMOS
High resolution image with 2000k pixels
Min. illumination:1 Lux (min)
Support USB1.1 and USB2.0
Support AVI video format
Video decode use motion JPEG, recording for AVI format VGA (720 x 480 @ 30fps)
Recording can be sound or manually activated
Working time: 2 hours
Standby time: 250 hours
Store consumption:1GB per 40 min
Support 30 fps for 720x480 
With LED indicator
Support Micro SD (TF) card: 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB(max.)
Support Windows 98/2000/ME/XP/Vista/WIN 7
How to charge:
Please charge the mini DV before using for the first time.
1. Can be charged by connecting to PC USB port;
2. Can be charged by connecting to adapter with USB cable.

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Posted by Ray Dunakin on Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:27 PM
Wow, that's cool! Definitely would be good for POV shot, either onboard or trackside. Is it standard video resolution?
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Six dollar video cam.
Posted by ttrigg on Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:53 PM

Six dollar video cam. OK it is $6.49 (plus $5.99 S+H) over on "evilbay". Then you need to get a mini-SD card. I heard about this on the radio, Leo Laporte has a weekend electronics show and talked about it. He said that compared to the price it gives a very good picture. He called it a "spy cam" because it is so small. I’m thinking about putting it inside the car or engine.  Here's a pic (hint it looks like a car key remote.)

I’ve got one on order, and will post a sample of how well it works. I’m thinking it might make for interesting point of view shots as the train passes by, like inside the house looking out the window, inside the cab of the delivery van, inside whatever.

See for yourself.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250590754453&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

It is rechargeable, via the USB cable.

 

Revised edit 28 May 2010:

OK folks, skip past all the disparaging remarks on this and the next page. Go to page three of this thread, Jerry Barnes has posted a very good instruction sheet for this camera. It was a battle understanding the "ChinEngrissh" but someone was able to produce a very clear instruction set. It works very well.

The new e-bay link

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250609856177

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