It's good for cyclists to have flight recorder options. Perhaps upload some videos and frame-grabs?I was just trying my <£30 Apeman A79 on my new bike on my lunchtime ride - I have it mounted on the handlebars with the usb cable plugged into my bike battery - I think the quality will be much inferior to the GoPro, but I tried reading a few number plates, both coming towards me and overtaking and using the "grab frame" they were all legible - don't think it would work in low light or dusk though - I might try it . I'm recording at 2.7k/30fps with electronic stabilisation on, there are some settings that I might have a play with.
Similar to my Crosstour Action 4K, which also did a decent job of recording plates in daylight, but was useless doing the same at night, hence my obsession - the GoPro Hero 7 Black does a decent job at night when plates are not too far away, at 1/480S. Video will look extremely dark at 1/960s. There won't be much viewable when played back on-camera, but I'm hoping post brightening will reveal all. I expect colour information will be scant.this was on an overcast rainy day
Time for a helmet camera?
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I'm pretty sure my old Crosstour Action 4K could have been capable of recording number plates at night, if shutter speed was a user assignable setting... but no, functionality provided by the user interface copied the older GoPros.don't think it would work in low light or dusk though - I might try it . I'm recording at 2.7k/30fps with electronic stabilisation on, there are some settings that I might have a play with.
We'll have a look at this when we move the site over to a new platform. We were hoping this would've been completed by now but we are waiting for a major update to be released.Such digital cameras will continue to improve, I do hope someone will post about one suitable for cyclist use, which does the job better in the same conditions, without costing a fortune.
@rsscott: I don't know what anyone else thinks, but I reckon making posts editable forever would be a good change, like Endless Sphere. I've noticed old posts on this forum with informative media hosted elsewhere disappears over time: Dropbox, Photobucket, Windows Live, iCloud, Google Drive, Facebook, Myspace etc. and it'd be better if posts could be updated by the authors to maintain maximum usefulness for site vistors. One reason why I've been linking to my Vimeo videos, is because they can be replaced in situ, unlike Youtube, therefore if I haven't much time I can do a rough edit (let's face it, all vids I upload here aren't neat) to upload to Vimeo and infinitesimally improve to make less dull later, without having to to attempt editing the uneditable post after the 24 hours pedelecs.co.uk deadline and failing. It was a race against time to replace the Youtube video above before the 24 hour timeout. Other videos I've posted on this thread can't be updated.
What's wrong with this platform? I like it. I say if it aint broke, don't fix it. There were initial teething troubles when the hosting changed, and @flecc mentioned a lot of old but interesting content was removed during the process. Will all that happen again? Live links are an important ranking measure. If links are forever updateable on old threads, they'd boost the forum's visibility on search engines; become a valuable source for traffic. It's important on a forum like this for links posted on old threads about pedelec law to be updatedeable forever. Also if someone has uploaded a photo revealing the GPS co-ordinates by mistake, potentially revealing their identity, they could remove it. Or if they have breached libel or copyright/other law accidentally - forum members being able to remove that stuff themselves, would mean less work for admins, and less potential financial liability for forum owners too, as platform/publisher laws change in future.We'll have a look at this when we move the site over to a new platform. We were hoping this would've been completed by now but we are waiting for a major update to be released.