You have my full respect, cycling on major road ways with those tiny folding bikes bikes I salute. you are braver that I. Your video was very informative thx.
30 lumen is indeed not a lot for daytime running light use. A brighter/shorter flash would likely be more visible (with minimum impact on battery running time).
Imo splurging for a Garmin varia is worth it. It’s super bright, has radar and records video. The bright rear projecting light pattern reacts to the radar. That is an active safety feature. All these cams are quite rubbish at night but at least the varia has a bright light to illuminate a car plate. I think the positive thing is that it’s not expensive and the more cams out there the better. Just imo go all out on a varia. You’ll end up buying a cam then a radar and then a bright light and it’ll costs as much as a varia but then you have 3 devices to charge rather than 1 and 3 devices to mount on your bike which is nuts.
@@2Bikes4Adventure indeed. I think that’s a barrier for a lot. Sometimes you can find great deals on them. Just need to keep an eye out. I bought mine for 360usd. I know they can run around 450. Depends. To me I justify it by dividing that cost into 3 devices. 120 per device 😅
We cycled in this kind of traffic (60mph, 100km/h) on the East Coast Greenway in Florida, Georgia and NC. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the Seemee DV at the time. It’s certainly capable of capturing 45mph (70km/h) cars, speeds we often encountered during our test ride in Eastern Europe.
Shame you cant select the time for the SOS auto save ... 55sec before & after would be good , espcially if you aren't able to switch it off before it overrights ... ... Camera theft by aggressive motorist also a concern.
@podiumphysio657, a normally illuminated city street would provide enough light to capture the front license plate. It would be more difficult on a dark rural road where there is little or no street lights. Vibration due to poor road surface could further complicate positive identification.
I purchased one but it wouldn't connect to my Google Android or an IOS. Perhaps the units wifi transmitter was faulty. Debating about ordering another. Any thoughts?
Our didn’t give us any problem (we are using an iphone). Did you try contacting their online support line? MagicShine has returns and exchanges policies.
You are right. Tainan city to be more precise. Here’s a quick video of that trip done with our Brompton in 2017 Cycling Taiwan Route # 1 with Brompton bikes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-97_JiFbN-GI.html
I doubt any will and in the future. It just eats too much power. The only way I can see this is if they or any other brand decides to make a separate powerbank then run a wire to the device.
@@2Bikes4Adventure I think the best reasonable suggestion for a brand is for them to have an accelerometer sensor recording data. And then with your phone or pc, post process stabilize the footage. I can tell you that stabilization with GoPro and Insta360 doesn’t work at night. All that awesome magic it does disappears. I think the best way to do it is use high res on smooth surfaces like roads and use high frame rate on rougher surfaces.
The stabilization on this camera doesn’t look very good and that’s not very sharp for number plate reading any problems on the road with cars. You wouldn’t be able to take the number plate to the police to show them because you can’t even see it.
As far as we could tell, there a no stabilization (none are mentioned in the documentation neither). As for reading license plates (for countries that have them), doing a screen capture was usually sufficient to read them however.
The stabilization problem is the mount, not the camera. The mount allows the camera to wobble A LOT. If you can get the camera to keep still, the footage is good. See my little video of the problem here. ru-vid.comMzVY_5l0N84
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