Test Drive w/ HP f210 Car Camcorder
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO HP'S THENEXTBENCH.COM! - Recently, I took this car-mounted camera for a spin near the Golden Gate Bridge. Just so you know, some of the shakiness and noise you're hearing is because I was driving around in a convertible. Bonus points if you can tell the make of the car! ;p
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How did you remove Subtitles from the record? I mean date, time, coordinates, speed. Did you do it in the HP F-210 dash cam's settings?
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You just made the dumbest comment i've read in a long time. -
I bought a HP F210 and am disappointed with the playback of the video recording. As noted firsthand by this Youtube video, I also experienced an unacceptable level of shake in the recorded video. It's as if the camera is jiggling on its windscreen mount. Yet all the adjustments on the mount are firmly done up and there is no obvious movement.
I had another cam corder mounted on the same vehicle's windshield and recording simultaneously - the video playback of the recording from the iTronics ITB-100HD SP was rock solid without any shake whatsoever.
As feedback to HP for continual product improvement, the windshield mount needs to be redesigned to eliminate this jiggling. I believe the excessive length of the mount causes the jiggle in the video recording. The long drop of the mount also means that the unit is suspended at about the same height as the drivers straight ahead line-of-sight. This is undesirable because the camcorder cannot be mounted discretely and may actually impede the vision of the driver to the road.
Side-by-side, the Full HD 1080p video quality of the F210 does not compare favourably to the iTronics unit, I would say only the picture quality is only acceptable. Night time recording is grainy, but the camera does a reasonable job of controlling the reflective glare of headlights on registration plates, so still legible compared to the iTronics where the same plates are no longer readable. In this regard, the HP trumps the iTronics for usefulness in night time recording.
In summary the jiggling video recording is HP's biggest bugbear with this product. Would I recommend the HP F210? If HP does not redesign the mount, which is where I believe causes the video issue, then the answer would be a "no". But if HP does take heed and even offers a swap out service to existing customers for a redesigned mount, then definitely a "yes". -
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The camera DOES SHAKE all over the place. I just got one, put it in my truck and the video is HORRIBLE. The mount just sucks......don't believe what you read. I did and at least I can return it to Amazon. It is a nice concept but the mount sucks, so the video sucks. I am uploading my review on to youtube and I already put it on Amazon with the video.
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Is the mount not rigid enough since the camera is bouncing around relative to the car? Surely the top of the windshield isn't skating that much…?
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