Winsbydefault

I have recently purchased a chinese MD80 video camera clone from Ebay, They run for about 15 US Dollars and are the size of a thumb (see pic below) and records at 720×480@30FPS

MD80

My first impressions of this little thing was that the film quality outright sucked when I tried it in my room, it was blurry and slow.. As it turns out, It needs either strong lightning or natural daylight to work properly,

So once sufficient light is applied the smoothness of the video kicks in and its actually quite good for such an inexpensive and small camera. Most of these units that are sold does not come with memory cards, Mine did (for a slightly increased price) but I suspect its not a very good one,

I will get a memory card with higher write speeds later, According to the various of youtube videos I’ve seen the memory card can make a world of difference and they are fairly inexpensive (20 USD for a Class 6 MicroSD)

I plan on using this little camera as a head camera in the future while I play airsoft, and since its so inexpensive I wont even care about its safety and its size is perfect! Time will tell if it produces any neat results or not.. For now, I have uploaded a small test video of the camera from some brief filming this morning.

The main shortfalls of this camera are:

The integrated battery whilst sufficient isnt great, and the max size of the MicroSD card is 8gb
The picture gets a little warped when you turn the camera fast enough, see video above
Does not work unless there is proper daylight conditions
Needs good quality memory or else the video quality suffers significantly
THE YELLOW LABEL CANNOT BE REMOVED OR RECONFIGURED

It might be worth mentioning that the package came with the camera, driver disc, Three different kind of clips so you can attach it to stuff and one power socket->USB charger

All in all, if you want a inexpensive and decent camera I would recommend this. I’ll post more updates as time progresses and I have used it more

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Since this blogs subtitle is ‘Stuff that wins by default’ i am going to show you some stuff that wins by default.

First off all, let us define ‘win’:

to win (third-person singular simple present wins, present participle winning, simple past and past participle won)

(transitive) To achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc).