"poor video quality, lack of memory for a couple of hundred more you can get so much more...

I bought this in July immediatly before I left the country for an extended vacation. I have been using it for paragliding and snowboarding since then. Overall I think it's a great idea, but suffers in the execution. I would not recommend buying it. Unfortunately I was away too long to be able to return it.

The good
- size
- simplicity of helmet cam
- codec plugs into Apple framework - no requirement to use imagemixer if you're a mac person

The bad
- video quality
- battery life (internal & external)
- DivX codec conflict (I had to delete all other codec's before installing imagemixer to make it work)
- can't copy files back to the camera
- provided straps don't fit any of the helmets I use
- weather proof case doesn't close properly if camera is oriented to mount on top of helmet
- photo quality

Even at the 'super fine' setting, the video quality is extremely poor. Colours are muddy, frame rate is jerky, white balance and exposure levels are terrible, and the lens distorts around the edges. My canon SD400 'still' camera does MUCH better video in it's VGA mode. I would rather that it didn't do stills, mp3, file browser, etc and just did good video. I don't think that's asking too much.

Hope this helps someone."


Сколько той жизни?!