New Forest Travels 1

Brief travel from just off the A31 near Ringwood, Hampshire, UK, through New Forest town Burley then via open forest on to the old Holmesley Station then stopping on the straight road built on the old Castlemans Corkscrew railway line. Note bicycle race in progress, also a motorcycle club convoy. This a test of a Spy Pen Camera bought for £11 ($15) on Ebay Post Free HK. Has 640x480 AVI 30 fps video, 4Gb memory (there are 8Gb versions) and a very sensitive microphone. Here its clipped to Satnav mount. Slight picture degrading effect due to the tinted screen. This camera is designed more for covert surveilance. Incidently the chinese bulk factory gate price for these is less than £6 ($9) yet currently a US Surveillance Equipment Company has them on sale for $299 (about £220).

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[FranksTechHelp]

I mis-spelled your name, how embarrasing! Hey your camera quality is so much better than mine, I wonder if it's because my cam is the 720x480? Plus my mic is not sensitive at all, in fact I can barely hear myself when recording. Can you point me to the buyer where you got yours? I am gonna buy the 640x480 and give that a try. Good Video!

[gunsandroses1111]

Hi Frank. These do vary. No I dont think its the resolution I have a 720 x 480 MD80 (Muvi clone) too and thats fine. I think mine (Pen Cam) came from seller Mercifly. I think for Pen Cams the memory quality (which you cannot alter) does vary. For MD80 and clones the best is to use a Sandisk SDHC Micro SD card which is very fast.

[FranksTechHelp]

Okay Louis, that actually makes sense. But my mic still is hard to pick up so wondering if it was put together and is slightly askew from the mic hole which I still haven't found on the unit. Anywho, thanks again for the quick response and good info!

[gunsandroses1111]

I am not sure about the mic but I think it is near but not under the reset hole. They do come apart but be very careful. A perplexing fault occasionally is the metal cap surrounding the top button moves up a little. This causes the pen to appear not to work (or reset) because the button is not contacting pcb switch. All (Muvi, MD80s, either AEE or clones) are made in the same Chinese linked factories. The reason they are so cheap from China direct via HK is the truly huge foreign markups.

[gunsandroses1111]

The road markings (40 mph) throughout the New Forest (now a National Park) are designed to protect the animals (ponies, cattle, pigs, and others) owned, but fully wild that roam freely, including on roads. Lately these animals have reflective collars. By this means all grass in the Forest is kept, as here, at "freshly mown" levels. All ponies on the Forest are mares, apart from a brief period when stallions are temporarily released. Foals arrive en masse a while later ...

[gunsandroses1111]

For more about Spy Pens see other videos listed as this one ends .....

[adrianonlinenet]

found it

Can One Day Change You Life - by Tom Geiger

[adrianonlinenet]

Great video. Just bought the cheap chinese copy of the MD80 camera which is 720, plastic and push button. £12 on eBay. Will be using that in a car.

Anyway, what's the music?

[FranksTechHelp]

Good video Louise, that little camera is working out nice for you! Maybe I will bring mine when I visit the U.K. soon and do a Frank's Tech Help from the U.K. haha