Tony
Staff member
I told you guys that once I tested out the glasses, I would do a write-up on them. Well here it is.
I purchased the camera from THESE GUYS on eBay. You can see the actual product that I purchased HERE.
The video quality is what you would expect from a camera this small and cheap. It does record in 720, but I'm thinking it's more 720i and not 720p. It's still pretty fuzzy, even in bright light. You can see that in the video below.
One thing you are going to notice in the video below is the sound. It's like the modulation was turned WAY up on the mic. I actually had to turn the volume way DOWN when editing the video just to make it half way audible. But this is a cheap clone camera from china, what do you expect?
I decided that I would take the glasses apart and look at the mic that was in it. When I finally found it (it was under the camera ribbon), I pulled back the felt and saw what looked like loose metal shavings in there. I took my exacto and started trying to pull it out. Well, this was the coating on the disk in there. This destroyed the mic and there was no "real" sound getting through.
I remembered that I had my 480 glasses still and the audio was okay on those. So I decided to tear it apart and unsolder it. I swapped them out, and boom, modulation issue resolved. The sound is now clear, but unfortunately it's dark outside so no testing with the heli, which is louder than I talk. But I did some audio tests and they sounded pretty good.
So if you want a cheap pair of glasses with a half way good HD camera in them, these are pretty good. I did pair it with a good class 10 SD card which is why the video is NOT jumpy like my last videos were with the old glasses. You can see the card by CLICKING HERE.
So in conclusion, these glasses are NOT a gopro, but they are good enough to feed our addiction for videos here on the forum.
Just Flying - YouTube
I purchased the camera from THESE GUYS on eBay. You can see the actual product that I purchased HERE.
The video quality is what you would expect from a camera this small and cheap. It does record in 720, but I'm thinking it's more 720i and not 720p. It's still pretty fuzzy, even in bright light. You can see that in the video below.
One thing you are going to notice in the video below is the sound. It's like the modulation was turned WAY up on the mic. I actually had to turn the volume way DOWN when editing the video just to make it half way audible. But this is a cheap clone camera from china, what do you expect?
I decided that I would take the glasses apart and look at the mic that was in it. When I finally found it (it was under the camera ribbon), I pulled back the felt and saw what looked like loose metal shavings in there. I took my exacto and started trying to pull it out. Well, this was the coating on the disk in there. This destroyed the mic and there was no "real" sound getting through.
I remembered that I had my 480 glasses still and the audio was okay on those. So I decided to tear it apart and unsolder it. I swapped them out, and boom, modulation issue resolved. The sound is now clear, but unfortunately it's dark outside so no testing with the heli, which is louder than I talk. But I did some audio tests and they sounded pretty good.
So if you want a cheap pair of glasses with a half way good HD camera in them, these are pretty good. I did pair it with a good class 10 SD card which is why the video is NOT jumpy like my last videos were with the old glasses. You can see the card by CLICKING HERE.
So in conclusion, these glasses are NOT a gopro, but they are good enough to feed our addiction for videos here on the forum.
Just Flying - YouTube