Mwave seems to be blowing out those little keychain video cameras so many of us fly on our planes. These really take great video. They are on sale for $17.99 with a $8 coupon. That means you're into it $10. That's less than I paid from China for mine and they are even offering free shipping! Pretty sweet deal. It's in their holloween email that's been out for a few days already so you probably want to move fast if you want one (or two). Here is the link: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SKUSearch.asp?px=MP&scriteria=BA47679 ...Tiger
I received my Key Chain Camera from Mwave today. I will try and get some video tomorrow to show how it works.
If yours is like most that I have seen, the date is set for sometime in the past. Shortly after I got mine and became tired of seeing the wrong date embedded in my videos I found this site. Hopefully the information is still relevant for your little cam. http://www.chucklohr.com/808/#SetDateTime Besides showing how to change the date, there is probably enough info here to go in to business making these things.
Thank You Bill - Mine did have a cryptic instruction sheet and one thing it did have was the date set/change instructions. The date is changed like my Contour HD video camera. This is a great link with TONS of good stuff. Thanks for sharing that! Last night I got our my little mSR helicopter and wanted to charge a few batteries and first thing I crashed into the sofa and broke the flybar. Time to rummage through the spares.
Speaking of the keychain cam and the mSR, did you see this? It's all it would do to carry it. ;D [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=kye2nbaipmg[/youtube]
Very cool Bill. I should have brought my camera to the indoor fly and drive last night and made a video. I will on the next fly and drive in two weeks.
I did bring mine to the indoor fly last night and forgot it in the truck. Dah!!! I had velcro on it and was all ready to stick it to the bottom of my 120SR. Would have been a cool video when I was ripping around with that. I think I'll bring it to Redwood Sunday and make a video there. I want to try posting to YouTube. I've never done that. Can't be very hard. Probably have to sign up or something. Guess I'll be finding out. ...Tiger
Getting them on YT was the easy part for me. Figuring out how to edit and publish on my own PC was a leaning experience though. :
GPS - I don't remember what camera that was, but it's not the keychain. I just uploaded this keychain video to YouTube. Keep in mind that this is a low light late in the day shoot and it still gets surprisingly good pictures. Notice how well it handles the fast motion and how excellent the audio quality is. Not bad for ten bucks! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQEGQwNSNA[/youtube] ...Tiger
That was quite a job of keeping up with the plane. I would have guessed the little cam was attached to some sort of pointer to keep it on target. I noticed that they handle going from light to dark very well also, much better than a much more expensive camera I have can. :
I have two questions: - Did you make that little fan prop yourself? - How did you change the date on your keychain camera? I used all the methods (tag file, etc.) in GPBills linked post and none have worked for me which is odd because I have a Turnigy camera and those methods worked on that camera.
I bought the little 30mm fan on BP Hobbies and modified it. They sell one with a motor, but it doesn't work. I burned up two or three of theirs (30 seconds!) and then did my own. Nice little CNC job. I just set the time and date in both of my cameras using the tag.txt file. It has to be in the root and gets read and erased the first time you power on. My "TAG.txt" file looks like this: [date] 2011/11/07 14:24:56 ...Tiger
