That looks prety good for the price. What's the sound recording quality/ ability like?

I'm currently having a lot of neighbour issues with a guy giving me loads of verbal everytime I walk out the house. I want something that'll catch the insults and veiled threats he's coming with. Think this will do?

The resolution is easily good enough to read number plates at 10 meters.

 

Battery duration might be the weak point. For £20 the quality is amazing.

 

I would be interested in hearing how you get on with the INNOVV H5 4K Helmet Camera when it comes. Battery life on that seems amazing.

That looks prety good for the price. What's the sound recording quality/ ability like?

I'm currently having a lot of neighbour issues with a guy giving me loads of verbal everytime I walk out the house. I want something that'll catch the insults and veiled threats he's coming with. Think this will do?

Yes. Try them.

 

Only £13 from China with a 32gb SD card. My ones were supposedly from a UK supplier, but took two weeks to come from China.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155406461679?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D267025%26meid%3D23760f3ce8f64c129e8e2b5cf78db35c%26pid%3D101875%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D226203439146%26itm%3D155406461679%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D4429486%26algv%3DSimplAMLv11WebTrimmedV3MskuWithLambda85KnnRecallV1V2V4ItemNrtInQueryAndCassiniVisualRankerAndBertRecallWithVMEV3EmbeddedAuctionsCPCAutoWithCassiniEmbRecallManual%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p4429486.c101875.m1851&itmprp=cksum%3A15540646167923760f3ce8f64c129e8e2b5cf78db35c%7Cenc%3AAQAJAAABgP9d%252BMZSXlztIfYFu3kI%252B7ft0VcQix7rTrUVdiJwc2upzwLfM%252B2UEqu0ZqdXqu2qWe6up6s9MSEY%252BWikIwEh4xLkizL%252BG%252Fyhg6cdW4xfkbb75erVQBYYISNxGN1au%252BE0eJ778JYYSAyLJRupNiZky3B2UHpMsaEp7JRgW9fuueOszPlG9eCPE4mSzJx4EejjZE0v1xx3s4HgKujjhEB3s6n09A6%252Fm4CdUeNJPFonPYjc4fpe7SUtOsSiHUG6FOpY2r%252FZVKO0gXSIMA6ZK9G5eFkCrXW7kdUZQ63QTZq592KcoNHYwKIgtqIL08MciIocP84IsWEPXzNfeQRMccq7WTxhqP%252FhzUWPmXJf92TgiVIqXIjvIY%252FmFv3CgISciQxPoHQwsF%252FBLt82OhvoPSg%252BPVMDGd9%252FFqJDIZGgbyBUAAg4TVD4yTVkzJTGc3%252FO7XXNu47LtQjs9Nqp3%252F7nZ%252FTe0leZ8aScqkws3ibPj7N%252BEzqxDMwoBMqIEzKs301sxHi6mg%253D%253D%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A4429486&itmmeta=01J2RJHWF3SY0549J2CZ2SJCFQ

Thanks Saneagle.

The guy seems to object to the fact that we've both retired and so are around more. He hasn't worked for the last 10 years (though he's younger than me) and has got used to the gardens being quiet. He's decided (and has said) that he hates us since we retired so takes every opportunity to give us greif. Also has not really started going out again after lockdown. So, basically, yes a stir crazy nutter.

Thanks Saneagle.

The guy seems to object to the fact that we've both retired and so are around more. He hasn't worked for the last 10 years (though he's younger than me) and has got used to the gardens being quiet. He's decided (and has said) that he hates us since we retired so takes every opportunity to give us greif. Also has not really started going out again after lockdown. So, basically, yes a stir crazy nutter.

 

I reckon the ideal place for me would be a house on a hill top or in a big forest, so that there are no neighbours at all within perhaps a kilometre. That would suit me perfectly. Crazy or inconsiderate neighbours are a curse.

I reckon the ideal place for me would be a house on a hill top or in a big forest, so that there are no neighbours at all within perhaps a kilometre. That would suit me perfectly. Crazy or inconsiderate neighbours are a curse.

It doesn't matter what house you have or where it is, there's always something to spoil it that you find after you moved in.

Here's a quick test of the spy glasses. It's difficult to hold my head up high enough to point forward correctly. The blob at the top is my cap. I had to have it down a bit because the wind would blow it off down that hill. They're not so good if you want to record evidence of wrong-doing, but not bad for £20, and very convenient. These ones are much more discrete than some of the others. I'd be surprised if anybody noticed the camera.

 

The problem I had last time was my card reader. It was fine this time.

 

Don't forget to set Youtube to 1080p.

 

 

What's great about cheap Chinese cameras is, there's much less motion blur - that output is very similar to the many small cheap crappy Chinese video cameras I have owned over the years. Freeze a frame to read a number plate, simples. If you freeze frames trying to see number plates viewing low light video from the Innovv H5 below, plates are blurry. Probably because it's on an automatic mode. My GoPro Hero 7 Black did much the same on auto, but fortunately there are manual settings to reduce shutter speed to make the damn thing useful. After adjustment, it does a good job. Manufacturers of newer small video cameras prioritise making them easy to use, and the video look pretty. As a cyclist, I need sharp and not necessarily pretty video, day and night.

 

In the Innovv H5 manual, there is a tab marked "Exposure controls" in the app. I certainly hope manual settings are accessible there. Reduce shutter speed and increase ISO. Colours will look crappy, but number plates will be clearer. Even slow moving number plates are blurry:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_hoxYfQ0Xk

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by guerney

Thanks Saneagle.

The guy seems to object to the fact that we've both retired and so are around more. He hasn't worked for the last 10 years (though he's younger than me) and has got used to the gardens being quiet. He's decided (and has said) that he hates us since we retired so takes every opportunity to give us greif. Also has not really started going out again after lockdown. So, basically, yes a stir crazy nutter.

 

Export the audio from video recorded as you hold your phone in your hand? Audio is proof, therefore you needn't look like you're recording video. Perhaps your phone's microphones can record verbal abuse (however faintly) while you simply hold it in your hand while walking? A free video editor could export the audio, a free audio editor like Audacity could boost and clean it up. In my experience, councils and cops act on that. There's a free program out there which edits file attributes, so you can match the cleaned up exported audio's tags to the recorded video's tags, in case someone looks carefully.

 

Or buy a decent quality small shotgun mic for your phone...

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sennheiser-MKE-400-Shotgun-Microphone/dp/B0015CM64U

 

... or a high quality dedicated audio recorder and add a production quality shotgun mic to it? Such and similar stuff is cheaper to hire.

 

https://zoomcorp.com/en/gb/handheld-recorders/handheld-recorders/h4n-pro/

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by guerney

I reckon the ideal place for me would be a house on a hill top or in a big forest, so that there are no neighbours at all within perhaps a kilometre. That would suit me perfectly.

 

"WHO declares loneliness a ‘global public health concern’

 

The World Health Organization has launched an international commission on loneliness, which can be as bad for people’s health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day"

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/who-declares-loneliness-a-global-public-health-concern

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by lenny

It doesn't matter what house you have or where it is, there's always something to spoil it that you find after you moved in.

This is true.

 

It is perhaps something built into the core of our nature. We come after all from a creature that wandered all across the planet, constantly searching for somewhere better to live - for a while - and then move on. Quite amazing that 48 to 50 thousand years ago, modern humans from Africa had walked and rafted to begin populating Australia. It was only perhaps 60 to 70 thousand years ago that we walked out of Africa in the first place into the Middle East and into Europe.

This is true.

 

It is perhaps something built into the core of our nature. We come after all from a creature that wandered all across the planet, constantly searching for somewhere better to live - for a while - and then move on. Quite amazing that 48 to 50 thousand years ago, modern humans from Africa had walked and rafted to begin populating Australia. It was only perhaps 60 to 70 thousand years ago that we walked out of Africa in the first place into the Middle East and into Europe.

 

Yet still dissatisfied, we're now looking for other planets to move to.

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We can NEVER move to other planets, though we have discovered many thousands outside our solar system.

 

Anyone who thinks we can transport ourselves to extra solar planets has no idea how far they are. Even the nearest star system to the sun would take almost the whole time Homo Sapiens has existed outside Africa to reach at the speeds our fastest current space craft can go. It would take our current technology 70,000 years to reach the three stars of the Alpha Centauri group. There are planets there, but they are most likely at least as inhospitable as Mars and Venus. And THAT is the nearest star system to ours. Other neighbours are at least twice as far away. How does colonisation work in such a huge environment when we live maybe 80 or 90 years in the ideal environment of Earth ( which don't forget is where we evolved to live).

Mars would be the best bet for a short visit or a one way trip.

 

But -

 

Mars has an atmosphere similar in pressure to Earth at 120,000 feet.

Mars has no free oxygen in its atmosphere.

Mars has an average temperature of about minus 80 Centigrade

Mars has next to no water by our usual standards

Mars has radiation environment that is very dangerous to life.

 

Forget colonisation.

 

Our only long term hope is to vastly reduce the population of humans on Earth and to create a much lower resource demand than we currently regard as essential.

Forget colonisation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce784r9njz0o

 

 

Edited July 15, 20241 yr by lenny