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I was thinking it may be a cheaper option with longer recording time to have a laptop in the car to record web cam video.

they also weigh less than 100 grams.

There are some quite hi rez ones around now that look ok.

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POV1 make a brilliant lipstick cam with a separate housing that has battery and SD card in it, a bit exxy at $1000 but the resolution is great, there are other things that look like a dildo that are around the $300 Oregon Scientific do a Outdoor Sports cam also on SD card, resolution is OK

Ya gotta watch with carrying a laptop around in competition as it has to be very secure. Better to record onto a lipstick/didldo then download to web later

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What is wrong with the GoPro Motorsports Hero Wide camera?

http://www.goprocamera.com/index.php?area=2&productid=2

About $350 and from the videos ive seen on YouTube the video is fine for quality.

I looked at those but IMO the capacity with the largest Sd card is a bit small 60 mins is not enough.

I was gonna screw a holder for the laptop behind the passenger seat and screw the web cam behind my head in the middle of the car.

250 gig would be more than ample I expect. >_<

I havent seem a web can more expensive than $100 so it could well be cheaper and better prviding it will record at high enough rez at 30fps.

The canon HDV camera I bought to record this stuff is BLOODY USELESS.

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A 2gb SD card is about $13. You would only need to buy 3 of these for 1 trackday, thats about 2.5hrs of video for $40.

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I looked at those but IMO the capacity with the largest Sd card is a bit small 60 mins is not enough.

I was gonna screw a holder for the laptop behind the passenger seat and screw the web cam behind my head in the middle of the car.

250 gig would be more than ample I expect. :)

I havent seem a web can more expensive than $100 so it could well be cheaper and better prviding it will record at high enough rez at 30fps.

The canon HDV camera I bought to record this stuff is BLOODY USELESS.

I use a cheapo ($90) SD card camera. It doesn't have the highest frame rate or resolution, 640*480 and 30fps max, but you have to reduce the quality a fair bit for uploading to youtube anyway to get a reasonable file size - at least with my software. The full res video looks fine on a computer screen and OK on a TV. A single 2GB SD card is more than enough for a normal sprint day. I don't have to worry about damaging it (or a laptop) at the track.

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Ive got a canon Ixus 900Ti. @ 30fps and 640x480 i get just over an hour from the 8gig memory card. I just bolted it into something stuck to the rear windscreen that has a thread that suits the tripod mount in the bottom. Digicams only weigh ~400grams as well

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