On Feb 6, 3:57*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:11:19 -0800, Chris Nicholas wrote:
I have three of these 808 cameras, bought with Christmas present
vouchers via Amazon. One was more expensive, the other two as cheap
as they come. I'm glad I bought the expensive one, because it came
with a CD. Without that, is impossible to download videos to a
computer and view them.
????
There are two ways that don't need the disk:
- Connect the camera to your PC with the supplied USB cable
* without removing the SD card.
* The camera should show up on your desk top as a mass storage device,
* just as though you'd plugged in a USB memory stick.
* However, as everything about the cameras matches the price, sometimes
* the USB cable is NBG, so try another.
- with any luck your micro-SD card came with a full-size SD-card carrier
* that it clips into. Take it out of the camera, put it in the carrier
* and then use a standard SD-card reader to read it like any other SD
* card.
Not yet had a chance to use them in the glider, but I have been
practising on the ground.
Same here.
There are some really useful websites which help overcome the inadequate
instructions that come in the box the camera itself.
IMO this is one of the best:http://www.chucklohr.com/808
Its a bit chaotically organised, but it contains a huge amount of
information about the various camera models, using them, exactly what's
inside and where the bits came from.
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martin@ * | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org * * * |
I bought 5 of them. All were supposed to be the version 3 (which was
the most consitantly good version), but not all were. I shot this
video with one taped to the wing, one taped to the horizontal stab of
the LVVS G103.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDi1JvxwmM
The video is pretty good, but has 'hitches' (dropped frames) in
abundance. This site:
http://chucklohr.com/ has more info about them
than you would ever want.
BTW, I used double stick foam tape to mount them, until one fell off
in-flight. Now I use double stick foam tape, with a bit of duct tape
over it.