smeghead28 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I am looking for a couple to go onto my Losi 8ight. I know they are very prolific on ebay/Amazon etc but I am also aware there are a lot of fakes of these around. Where have people got theirs from? Looking for a reliable UK seller rather than just doing a search on Google that comes back with results in the 10,000s+ Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walters Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Look out 4 a clone of the sj4000 there is a good eBay seller let me find it 4 you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeghead28 Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Look out 4 a clone of the sj4000 there is a good eBay seller let me find it 4 you Well the SJ4000 isn't that expensive so would rather have the "original" version to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walters Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Sorry I was ment to say watch out for fake sj4000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walters Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The eBay seller is super_cheap_city good seller and not fakes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capri-boy Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Banggood sell originals, just like hobbyking you can get them either from the UK or HK a little cheaper. I've been looking at one, currently on the fence though as the new GoPro Hero is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyleftthumb Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 i was recently in this quandry. get the cheaper sj4000 or go for the mor expensive go pro. I read review after review. and there are differences. the light transition is better on go pro. there are more options on some models then others. i decided this way. If want a decent rc cam then sj4000 is the one to for. IF you want a proven top quality cam then go pro is to go for. warranty, quality. backup. updates. If you have ever bought cheaper rc parts whether it be esc's motors and then they just break for no reason. then you have to go and buy again. I have been bitten like this before and it aint nice. False economy once bitten twice shy or whatever. I personally prefer some back up or warranty for my products. It depends what you want out of it too. some hobby footage for forum and such like or some thing getting more professional. I opt'd for a second hand go pro with all the gubbings and top memory card for not much more then a sj4000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeghead28 Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 I have a couple of Gopros as it is. I didnt want the cheap GP as it is fixed into the case which I dont like. The plan was to fit one or two to my Losi buggy and get some on car footage. Given the nature of the buggy I was planning on giving it some stick and didnt want to strap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamiyacowboy Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Banggood got them in and reduced price in the uk warehouse to. as for cameras, even strapping a twenty cents camera to an rc is not ideal its twenty cents still down the pan. Gopro and the likes, these have more electronics so more easy to damage. those cases yeah do a great job keeping the gopro or like camera in one whole piece BUT Inside you have a Cmos sensor, under a microscope it has very fine hair thin gold wire strands linking it to the external carrier. if one of those breaks camera is knackered. electronics these to can be damage from vibration, if you rattle it at a certain frequency the silicon will fracture. so your camera is alot more easy to damage than you really think. just dropping it could fry it. Now mounting to your rc is ok, you can use a deshaker algorythm to take away the rolling shutter add some crafty bluring to remove timestamps, but for the very BEST quality that camera needs to stay still you will notice a scene recorded from tripod has a more defined color / hue contrast, its dont flicker as much but the camera moving around causes some lack in clearness. this is the sensor inside. quadpilots overcome this somewhat by mounting the camera like a pendulum on a motorized mount the computer adjust the camera to compensate for movement and you get that floating travel feeling to the scene. For a car/truck its going to be somewhat hard unless you gimble up the system, BUT simple mounting and dampening will help. Moon Gel ........... this stuff was invented by nasa and likes, its most famed for damping drum sets by the pros and costs a fortune. this same stuff works wonders on vibration dampening for cameras those low-medium-high frequency vibrations are cut in half -three quaters. the best place to look for this stuff is your kids windows, yeah you know them window stickers they get in kits. like a jelly sheet, you take out the shapes and slap them on the window. Its moon gel just a cheap version colored for windows. but does the same job as real moon gel. so if your struggling with floppy rolling camera shutter video try some windows sticker stuff, it works wonders 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evssv Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) so any one got any update as to what they bought???Want a waterproof cam for me on me motor bike mainly. .to many idiots on roads making my job dangerous. ..did look at the sj4000 but there's loads of fakes. .also looked at the atk range from scientific oragen...the 5 an 9... Edited February 21, 2015 by evssv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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