Comparison waterproof video cameras - BEST dog harness/ collar camera HD 1080P 2014

buy a good very compact video camera for fitting to your dog's harness to film their adventures for less than $100 in Australia (delivered)! This is for a well made, 1080P (HD) waterproof miniature Video camera!

colour RED

maximum resolution of 720P

The best dog video harness cameras in the world

The baseline action HD video camera standard.



Shown below are the images for the two sub $100 action cameras, and the gopro hero3 white models





SportsCam Mini Sport DV Go Pro Hero3 WHITE

gopro white is a single field of view and the cheapest (usually between $300 and $400 (ex postage), I will use the specs for this model as comparison.

Comparison of HD action cameras specifications: Go Pro, SportsCam & Min Sport DV













SportsCam







Mini Sport DV



Go Pro Hero3 WHITE



Price incl Post



$100



$100



$300 (min)



Sensor size 5.0 Mega Pixels CMOS 5.0 Mega Pixels CMOS 1/2.5-inch - 5.75 × 4.28 mm Fps 30



30 30, 25 Camera lens



F3.1 f=2.9mm







ƒ/2.8



Angle (fov deg)



120



140



Medium FOV

(127 deg est)



Remote control



Yes



NO



NO



Display



2.4" touchscreen



1.5 inch



NO



Waterproof



32 feet



30m



197 ft



BATTERY



3.7V Li-ion built-in

870 mAh



1100 mAh

New battery $12



1050mAh



Storage



MicroSD



Micro SD (TF card)



MicroSD Class 4



Size (no waterproof case) 74 * 52 * 33 mm 70*45*35mm 59 x 40 x 21 mm Cam weight



72 g



102g



74 g





What makes 1080p HD Action Video camera Quality?

Action Camera Sensor size

Ambarella

bigger the sensor area, the more light and image that falls on the sensor, so the camera can operate in many extreme conditions, especially darker conditions.

frames per second (fps)

30 fps at full resolution (1080p)

Dog video Action camera lens

Carl Zeiss

GoPro Hero3 use ƒ/2.8

Field of View Dog video Action camera

The sportscam model I am comparing in this article has a fov is 120 degree and the Mini Sport DV model is 140 degree.

What is the relative differences in video quality caused by different fov between two action cameras with assumed similar sensor size & lens?

Yes there will be less zoom, and slightly wider scenes but the big advantage is less video picture shake.

Action Camera REMOTE CONTROL

Action Camera Rear Display

This is the BIG advantage of these two 1080p action camera models I am reviewing here.

Camera Waterproof level

gopro white has a value of about 50m plus.

Mini Sport DV has 30m (and the new waterproof case as 3 buttons instead of 5 to protect the camera more).

Action Camera BATTERY Capacity

The gopro White as a 1050mAh battery, the Mini Sport DV a 1100 mAh

the sportcam has only an 870 mAh battery. The biggest issue for the Sportcam battery is that it is built in.

Action Camera Memory storage

Gopro recommends using Class 4 technology or greater.

class 4 SD card is about 4 Mb/s

For full HD recording either class 4 or 6 cards are recommended. The next level up is Class 10 and is considerably more expensive at time of writing.

Audio - is usually mono and has very few specifications given. Again youtube clips may provide some answers.

Action Camera File format and bit rate

This is really where the rubber hits the road.

H.264 video file format.

Action camera size & weight

Action Camera VIDEO EXAMPLES

Mini Sport DV

CONCLUSIONS

I bought the RED Mini Sport DV + 16 GB of memory

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