Budget Action Camera for track days

[Hard-Drive]

I'm looking for a half decent, but reasonably priced action camera for track days in a Caterham. I want to be able to mount it on the roll bar, and also to be able to put it in a few other positions...aimed at me, on the rear wheel arch filming the front wheel, pointing at the pedals, usual stuff.

Obviously I want a remote I can mount on the dash too.

The AKASO Brave 7 LE seems to be pretty decent for £118. Is there anything else I should be considering instead at that price point?

Thanks!

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

second hand go pro 4 should suffice

[Chuck328]

My Mrs bought a similar one to the Akaso off Amazon for about 40 quid. It does the job and the battery certainly lasts longer than my shagged out Hero3.

[Krikkit]

I bought a previous-gen of this for about £45, served well in our Fiesta track car. I have it set to 1080p and running all day when we're there and the footage is more than good enough imho.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/LeadEdge-Stabilization-...

[Cambs_Stuart]

I'd go for a second hand Go Pro Hero. Lots of mounts, software support, on line help etc.

[anonymous-user]

GoPro hero 4 black from eBay is all you need (around £70)

Tip, get an external mic to get less wind noise, and run a power cable to it as the batteries don’t last long. Oh and in summer use an ND16 filter to slow the shutter speed for a more ‘cinematic’ look

I did these with a basic hero 4 and an external mic

https://youtu.be/vIb_tKNMlyg

https://youtu.be/VpB0r7zppPg

Oh, and the free version of DaVinci Resolve is all the editor you will ever need.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 7th February 19:01

[Hard-Drive]

Thanks for all the feedback guys, some useful info and good videos too!

I ended up going for a GoPro Hero 8, there was a guy on eBay selling an unopened one at a very good price indeed and it seems a really decent piece of kit. A Caterham friend of mine does some well known YouTube videos (acaterhamcalledfern) so I've ordered the bits to pretty much copy his setup as it works well. Incidentally I discounted any newer models of GoPro due to the eye watering price and overheating problems, and I didn't bother with the Akaso as on review videos the sound quality was terrible, internal or external mic. My 8 has cost similar money to the Akaso anyway.

Next question, if I wanted to be able to put some overlays on my videos, speed, g, GPS track of the circuit, what do I need to be able to do that?

Thanks!

[Krikkit]

Hard-Drive said:

Next question, if I wanted to be able to put some overlays on my videos, speed, g, GPS track of the circuit, what do I need to be able to do that?

Harry's lap timer on an android phone would be perfect, then you can do the overlay process on it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLQCJgwqmiI

[dunc_sx]

I use race render to combine data from my cars GPS and video from my gopro4 (no external mic unfortunately):

Knockhill
https://youtu.be/uAd7k2DJ4Uc

Donnington
https://youtu.be/hSfxqit5O6c

It's free but you need a method of logging GPS data if you don't already have one, I think your camera might do this?

Dunc.

Edited by dunc_sx on Friday 17th March 07:37