Thursday, Aug 18, 2011 at 14:39
Hi Geoff
The camera is a DOD GS600 and costs under $300 on Ebay ( take care there are some copies around)
It is primarily a data logger and you are correct it records its position on the film using GPS technology. and also records your speed.
It records to a mini sd card , I use 2 x 32 gb cards in rotation, when the card is full it then over writes previous data 32gb stores around 7 hours of video in 1 minute blocks , can be extended out to 15 minute blocks but this looses some vision while it saves the previous.
When played back using the inbuilt software it also shows your position on Google Maps and includes a graph accelerator and decelerator , it is really designed to record any incident you may have while driving and it automatically locks the video taken if you have a crash, would be great for proving that you were in the right in a prang, could also prove the opposite.
I just leave it running in the car and let it over write but I got it specifically to record the CSR trip so now I have around 90 hours of the whole CSR and I will be putting clips from it into a slide show presentation with mainly stills taken during the trip but some excerpts of interesting video , camels crossing the track etc.
I would highly recommend it to you.
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