Dashcams and Dashcam Footage

Woodcutter

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Intsalling Road Angel Halo Drive cams in all of our vans this week. What size of memory card is best? They suggest just a 32GB micro SD, would that be sufficient?
 

NickR

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Intsalling Road Angel Halo Drive cams in all of our vans this week. What size of memory card is best? They suggest just a 32GB micro SD, would that be sufficient?
I've 16GB in my two channel blackvue with no issues at all. 32GB should be grand.
 

stevieturbo

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Intsalling Road Angel Halo Drive cams in all of our vans this week. What size of memory card is best? They suggest just a 32GB micro SD, would that be sufficient?


Depends...

If you're recording purely for an incident there and then....32 is plenty.

When I was on the road I was recording...and keeping a 3TB HDD full of daily recordings. Even a 64gb card wouldnt cover me for most days on the road but it covered most. 64gb on my old camera was around 8 hours worth at regular 1080 HD
But I tried to keep around 2-3 months worth saved although obviously you need to do that manually.

Just meant if there was ever any issues or allegations made I'd have records to contest them. Which for work vehicles can be handy too, but just a lot more work and storage space to do that. Especially for multiple vehicles.
 

Woodcutter

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Depends...

If you're recording purely for an incident there and then....32 is plenty.

When I was on the road I was recording...and keeping a 3TB HDD full of daily recordings. Even a 64gb card wouldnt cover me for most days on the road but it covered most. 64gb on my old camera was around 8 hours worth at regular 1080 HD
But I tried to keep around 2-3 months worth saved although obviously you need to do that manually.

Just meant if there was ever any issues or allegations made I'd have records to contest them. Which for work vehicles can be handy too, but just a lot more work and storage space to do that. Especially for multiple vehicles.

Thanks Steve. This is purely for accident purposes so hopefully a 16gb or 32gb will do.
 

Lyons

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Is Nextbase still a good choice in cameras? I need to replace the 312gw (I think) that was in the Golf and looking at the 522gw now.
 

stevieturbo

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They must teach motorists totally different over there. As any time I see blue lights trying to get through here, idiots seem to stop dead in the middle of the road blocking everything from moving and getting out of the way
 

gary1365

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Great news
Saw it on Facebook apparently it broke a branch off a tree 7 metres high.

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stevieturbo

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Clearly a bit of a p***k. Although if cyclists can ride for miles for exercise...why not other vehicles ? Exercise can be as much mental as physical.

But unless his speedo is kph...he's an even bigger idiot for uploading a video like that. And highly unlikely it is kph.
 

Lyons

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I got a Nextbase 522 a couple of weeks ago and noticed yesterday it wasn’t recording. It would record for 10s or so then stop. I had a play with it today and I can’t seem to get it set up to record when the car is turned on, which I’m pretty sure is what my 412 used to do.

Any ideas?
 

bora-gav

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I got a Nextbase 522 a couple of weeks ago and noticed yesterday it wasn’t recording. It would record for 10s or so then stop. I had a play with it today and I can’t seem to get it set up to record when the car is turned on, which I’m pretty sure is what my 412 used to do.

Any ideas?

did you do the firmware update?
i did on mine and it threw up a fault saying please input a branded memory card but it went away after awhile.
 
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