When your dashcam fails you!
 

Drove PDX today. Thought I'd have epic footage. Super stoked because I lapped a guy.

Hookup my dashcam to my PC. All I have is 3 minutes of footage in the pits. :mad0260:

Sorry for this worthless thread but I just had to vent.

Well, that's a shame ...... :(

Wait a minute ....... :confused0068:

You're from MD and you drove PDX today (Portland International Airport ..??) and you lapped a guy ....... ?? ...... are you sure he wasn't landing and not taking off ...... ??


humfrz

:needpics:

In a rage I purged everything from my dashcam, including the 3 minutes of footage in the pits. I'm sure you would have found that exciting.

That's a professional hazard also. When I worked in television news, we called that a "double-click," where you push the button to run the camera, then push it again to run the camera again, which actually turns it off. It gets everyone eventually.

Imagine the sinking feeling you get in your gut when the Prime Minister of Singapore has been speaking for 20 minutes, and you look over and realize the record light isn't lit on the camera. Imagine having to explain that missing footage to your producer who has already slotted it for air later that afternoon.

The origins of life always begin with something small.

I work in a restaurant and i know how i feel when a customers food gets missed and they have to wait an extra 10-15mins. I couldn't even imagine what it's like when something like that happens. :confused0068:

Is that what your wife said .......... ??

:lol:


humfrz

I had my camera on for some lapping in the rain.

Partway into one lap I'm on the tail of a Miata when he loses it and spins out. Cool! I'll have that on video.

In the same session I spin out and do a 720 right down the track. That will look cool I think.

When I pit, the camera is a black screen. No video recorded. :mad0259:

I've never seen sadder faces in a radio news department than when the internet was dead, dead, dead. Even the old-timers were at a bit of a loss.

Might be a bad SD card.
Please post the resolution to the cause.

I've thought about that. Will let you know if I'm able to figure it out.

Ha. Back in my radio news days we actually went out to get stories, with SM58's and Marantz recorders- and we pounded the stories out in triplicate on manual Crown typewriters or phoned 'em in for recording to cart. Razor blades were a key supply in the editing room. Newspaper clippings were actually cut from the paper and filed. And the AP feed and weather came off an actual, clattering teletype.

50-thousand watts of all-news for the win baby.

(And absolutely NO internet.)

What model dash cam are you running? Unless you mean a GoPro, technically not a dash cam.