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DVK 808 #3 Car Key Mini Camera (720x480) |
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Stryker
Basics 2K Fun Stryker Build |
The Mini DVK 808 #3 takes surprisingly good pictures and videos for a cheap price. They are sold on EBAY for around $20 USD. If you live in the U.S. it will probably take about 15 business days to get it. Note: I paid $23 w/free shipping and it comes with a 4 GB SD card, if you do find them cheaper it may not come with an SD card so you will need to buy it separately. You really only need the 4 GB SD card because it holds 1 hour of video and the battery lasts around 1 hour between charges, but if you do want more than 4 GB to store more files like a flash drive for example then the bigger SD cards may be what you want. Side note: When buying these keychain cams you really dont have any way of knowing exactly which model you are getting as some are better than others. There are many types out there that all look the same but with different resolutions, battery sizes, different color lenses, some use tag.txt and some use set time.txt and some with time and date located in different places in the video/pictures. Not to mention some with sd cards and some without. How it works: If you look at the buttons on top you will see 4, the back 2 are fake. Button 1: Hold button for 3 seconds to turn cam on (indicator lights solid yellow) Hold 3 seconds to shut down (indicator light goes off) Hold 3 seconds to stop a video during recording (indicator light goes off) Button 2: One quick push will take a picture (indicator light blinks once for each picture) hold the button for 3 seconds it will start recording video (indicator light blinks 3 times then goes off) One quick push during video recording will also pause the recording. Side note: Sometimes you dont know if your recording video or the cam is shut off when the indicator light is off, I guess thats why they call it a spy cam cuz a recording light would make it visible :) After 35 seconds of non use the camera will automatically shut down. Camera drive: After connecting the cam using the USB connector a box will pop up "installing drivers" which are the USB mass storage device and video camera USB device. A new drive will be listed on your pc, depending on your pc it may appear as "Removable Disk (J;) " What I do to make things easier is right click on the drive letter of cam and rename the drive to something like "Key Cam " so each time you plug cam into pc it shows "Key Cam ' for the drive instead of "Removable Disk (J;) " Flash drive: Internal or external memory can be used as a flash drive. Internal (memory-built in) means it is not removable. External (memory-SD card) means it is removable. Memory is nothing more than storage space that can be used to store any type of file you have on your pc. I recommend using an SD card reader or adapter because the camera has slower data rate. If you want to use the camera connect the USB then drag and drop or cut and paste files into the 100MEDIA folder of camera. Pictures and videos: All media files will be saved to the "DCIM/100MEDIA folder on the camera drive. Right click any of the media files you created in the folder for options like Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete. What I do is highlight all media, cut and paste them to a folder on my pc, this deletes them off camera and saves them to pc. Video file sizes: You should get about 0:50:00 minutes of constant recording time which will put you around 4 GB. You wont need more than a 4G SD card for this cam. Using windows movie maker: Cut out the parts of video you dont need, this is most important part of making smaller file sizes. When publishing the video using movie maker select the "Compress To" button to get the size number low as possible while watching the display size below. Once the display size hits 320x240 the video will shrink and get very distorted. When the number is low as possible while maintaining 720x480 hit the "publish" button. This will be the smallest size you can make the file while keeping 720x480 resolution. RC Plane video Edited with windows movie maker for smallest 740x480 file size. Buying SD cards: SD cards range from 2-32 GB (Tip: 4 GB is 1 hour of video recording) The cards used are the Micro SD/TF/SDHC with storage space 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB. Tip: TF = TransFlash, SDHC = Secure Digital High Capacity. Your local computer store may sell these cards but you will probably find them cheaper on ebay. Example: Sandisk 8GB Micro SD/TF/SDHC class 4 on ebay costs about $17 USD. The higher the class number (2, 4, 6) the faster the read/write speed, also little more expensive. Note the class numbers in pic below. When inserting the SD card the brass pins on card will face upwards towards buttons of camera.
Remove or insert SD card: push card IN until you hear a "click" sound. Charging: USB takes about 2 hours to fully charge if the battery is completely empty, when completely empty the yellow light will flash until it reaches the minimum voltage of about 3.6v, then it will return to solid yellow until it reaches a full charge of about 4.2v where it will start blinking again letting you know charge is complete. If the battery still has a little power left the yellow light will remain solid during charging. How to set the time and date: The time and date you need to make a text file called tag.txt so open notepad and type this in as shown: [date]
Space/Enter Save the notepad file as tag.txt There are 3 ways to add this file to the camera. #1 Using a sd card reader or sd adapter place the tag.txt file onto the sd card next to the DCIM fold , then plug sd card back into camera and the next time you power up camera it should be set. #2 Using USB place the tag.txt file next to the camera folder named DCIM (this is the root of camera) #3 Using USB place the tag.txt file onto the drive letter of your camera by going to start/computer/camera drive /then drag and drop or copy and paste the file onto the drive letter. Unplug the camera and power it off. Next time you turn it on the file will be accepted and the time and date will change. If you cant figure it out heres the TAG.txt I made, just change the numbers to your date and time. Once the tag.txt has been accepted the camera will delete it, so you wont see it in folder next to DCIM folder anymore. If the battery goes dead it will lose the date and time so hang on to the tag.txt file. Removing the Time and Date: As of now there are 3 ways to remove time and date, #1 use Logoaway, #2 Virtual Dub, #3 Add a title or layer over the time and date as I did in video above. To be honest none of these methods are that good, you may just want to leave it and save yourself the trouble. You can also remove time/date using firmware method but there is a chance it could trash your camera. It has worked for countless others but it is not guaranteed to work for everyone. Try at own risk!! Download the needed files here then follow the included readme and walkthrough videos. DVK808 as a web cam: You may need to hold the power button down as you plug in USB cable when using web cam the first time so it can install device drivers. After installing the web cam Drivers plug in the USB cable and push the power On/Off button once to start web cam mode. A pop up window on pc will show progress of driver installation. When finished, unplug the camera and plug it back in. Push the power button once to start web cam mode. Open Programs/SPCA1528 folder and select "Amcap.exe" to view the live capture from camera. Tip: Exit the Amcap program first before shutting down camera or program may not close (not responding error.) Original manual that comes with camera. In broken English and microprint the manual is very hard to read. Inside the 808 #3: Take a closer look at the internal parts of the 808 #3 Pros and Cons: Pros: Great sound/video quality. Excellent camera. Cons: The size/shape makes it harder to aim camera at target. This is what the
time stamp looks like on my #3 cam (said to be the best) all file names
start with SUNPxxxx and it uses tag.txt for setting time/date which is
located at the bottom right of each video/picture.
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