any decent quality cage mounted cameras at the moment for not massive money. been looking at gopro but they seem very expensive

You get what you pay for...

buy cheap buy twice

also now the new go pro HD has a external mic point so you could record without the horrible wind noise issue

it's a must buy for me once my kit is on the road

Go Pro, absolutely excellent and can be used in so many different ways. Worth getting the HD Hero2 if you can afford it, if not the 2 offers a very good camera for the cost.

The 2 allows you to alter the FOV, frame rate and resolution independently which is very nice.

Can't fault the go pro. I've got the normal one and hd one. Both excellent cameras

I've got the same as welderman. I'm selling the normal lens one, which has only been used once (£100 if your interested ), to fund buying a HD one which are about £230. Check out the video link to see the quality.

The go pro's do offer a good solution but you'd get just as good a picture out of a nice pal set-up for less cash. what size screen are you wanting to play it back on?

The GoPro is without doubt a very good solution and when compared with the data logging race setups a great price.
What you have to rationalise is price over quality, if you are only going to watch it on a pc screen or a smart phone you don't need HD or even high res.
I bought a cheap £20 lipstick which works very well the problem is the 5 min record length then it splits the video.
Cheap solution though.
A lot of the small cams are still very good but as said you get what you pay for.

Sound is a big issue and with camcorders I always run an external mic out of air flow.
I have used a digital sound recorder in the footwell and dubbed sound over video in edit as I think there is nothing worse than wind noise or no engine noise.

News that the GoPro has a mic socket is good news.

Go for one of the non-HD set ups, bullet cams etc. Everyone is going HD now but the better non-HD stuff can do full dvd quality which will work on any screen size. Plus the resulting files are more manageable (size) when editing etc

Just pick up a cheap digital camera (£50 tops), almost all have video and sound. Alternativly a nowmal HD camcorder, I picked up mine for £150 and can use it for more than just a car camera.
Then make up your own mount, My bro made this complicated one, but the design would be easiy to simplfy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08TVeGw55iw

I used my 8 year old 640x480 nikon digital camera on a £7 sucker mount to take almost all my incar youtube clips:
THe outside wheel clips were on a SD bullet cam with a JVC handycam (with a video input, which not many camera have)
Bearing in mind that youtube downgraded the uploaded to 360 resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYJCNmmFA0&list=PLBD4BA8188D8D5CB9&feature=plcp&context=C38cffceFDOEgsToPDskKehC9IMI5LhxnHCOGqojhJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKK7ARypMqM

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also don't get caught up on having HD as its not proper HD anyway as that's 1080P and runs at 3G.

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also don't get caught up on having HD as its not proper HD anyway as that's 1080P and runs at 3G.

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I use a contourgps, but they have a cheaper model now the contour roam. Still does 1080p but only at 30fps, which gives a rolling shutter effect on fast panning.

The gps as well as the contour+ do 720p at 60fps which gives a much more fluid video. The + also has external Mic connection.

Some say the picture etc in the gopros is better than the contours, and it may be, but there's not much in it.

For me, I wanted the form factor (the gopro looks stoopid on a snowboard helmet whereas the contours do not). They're Bluetooth enabled too so you can use android or iPhone to configure and as a viewfinder to line it up.

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also don't get caught up on having HD as its not proper HD anyway as that's 1080P and runs at 3G.

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just a
Isnt 3G the type of mobile connection, and nothing to do with HD itself.

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