E-PRANCE 0801 Dashcam & Linus Shows off his Lambo
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,544 words · ~7 min read
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what a wonderful afternoon to go for a safe and cautious Drive remember when
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pulling up to an intersection behind another car leave a safe following
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distance in case their vehicle accidentally rolls
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backwards oh good Heavens that car
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collided with me I wasn't moving at all you guys saw
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that now excuse me good sir I believe your car rolled backwards down the
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hilling wrong because your car ran into mine it's called a rear Ender for aing
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reason get it in your head well while normally the car in the back would be at
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fault in a situation such as this one which is now which is why they call that
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normally right but had anyone seen this accident they would have observed your
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car one no one saw this accident two it
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doesn't matter because that's how this works well there's damage
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to the front of my vehicle no one cares about the damage on the back of your
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car well I have a dash cam you
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see I have an injury you have an injury which which
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which you're going to have to pay for I'm going to pay for your
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injury CU you ran into my oh
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man oh cuz you ran into my car I ran into your car oh can you call
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my um but you do understand that no one
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will believe that I ran into your car oh can you call can you call 911
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unbelievable oh my heart oh
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the CM Storm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm
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fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to
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learn more all right that was fun but why does this video exist mostly as a
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PSA for why aside from us all needing more footage of meteor showers in Russia
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everyone should have a dash can because if you could choose who you get into car
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accidents with then life would be simple but because you can't the odds that the
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other individual is a complete ass hat are pretty good so for that reason back
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in December I was looking for whatever gave me solid image quality on the cheap
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this erance dash cam has about a billion reviews on Amazon and has all the
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features I need like 1080p recording audio recording and so I figured what
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the hey I'll order one and if it's great I'll let my peeps know and if it sucks
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then I'll let my peeps know so here we go the tour of this product is pretty
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straightforward on the side is the power button which you usually won't use since
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you'll want to plug it into your car and set it to record whenever it gets power
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on the front light goes in to the lens
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here sound goes into the microphone here
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and there's a speaker for playback then you flip it around and there's a little display to show you what sort of stuff
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was captured by the lens and that also gives you a real-time preview of
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whatever you're capturing power in can be handled a couple of different ways
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the top USB port is on the unit that comes with a surprise L good adhesive
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and can be detached from the camera once you've mounted it to the windshield it
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serves as power for both the camera and the optional GPS module that lives
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inside it which I didn't bother with but is available for an extra 10 bucks the
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other USB port up here can power just
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the camera or it can be used to pull footage off of the optional onboard
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memory or in my case the 16 gig micro SD
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card that holds about 3 hours of footage at 1080p definitely enough to capture
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you know the moment if something crappy happens while you are behind the wheel
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on the bottom we find the micro SD slot I just mentioned before as well as a
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mini HDMI port that can be used to playback footage on a larger screen if
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you don't want to use the one that's built in speaking of the built-in screen
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the three buttons next to it are not really very well labeled and each have
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at least a couple different functions for reviewing footage navigating the
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menus and stopping and starting recording so um good luck with that like
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sometimes you hold it down sometimes you press it yeah I don't know all right so
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here's my setup uh the unit does get a little bit warm while it's in operation
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but uh you know nothing nothing out of the ordinary so basically I mounted it
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in my car by putting it out of the way behind my rearview mirror and then I ran
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a wire down to my little Energizer inverter unit here that uh Powers up a
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bunch of USB ports should you so desire and also has an AC outlet but if you
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don't have one of those it does come with one of the cigarette lighter
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adapters so it actually has quite a long wire on it so you shouldn't have any
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difficulty doing that once it's on there you just go ahead and make sure the 135°
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wide angle lens is getting all the right stuff by adjusting it a little bit up or
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down and then that's basically it I mean it's funny to me that in the manual they
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tell you to mount it away from dust haha not in this car and uh out of direct
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sunlight and I'm just like okay it's a windshield not a sun shield and if it
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was a sun shield then I better not get a dash cam because any footage of the
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kinds of accidents I'd be getting into wouldn't work in my favor um but overall
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conclusion wise I guess this product is pretty straightforward I haven't tried
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other dash cams I'd love to hear your comments letting me know which ones are
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your favorites but I don't plan to replace this one anytime soon because
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the footage looks pretty good even in crummy conditions like my poorly lit
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bedroom with just a weak sauce bedside lamp and while the onboard menu system
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isn't perfect like at all it's actually fairly comprehensive with just about
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every option I could imagine myself wanting from resolution selection to
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manual or auto ISO and white balance settings to selecting whether to record
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continuously over the previous footage to protect everything on the SD card and
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just give an error when it's full or to just protect certain Clips like if I
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just got in an accident I want to protect that clip and then keep recording over all the rest of the stuff
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you can do all that stuff so aside from being a little bit difficult to navigate
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especially the first time without the manual um overall if I'm if I paid what
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I paid for this which I did then I'd be pretty pleased which I am so thank you
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a lot thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe for
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more unboxings reviews and other computer
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videos and since we're here in my car I
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would like to take this opportunity to
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dispel the myth once and for all that I drive a Lamborghini in fact this is my
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car it's a 2003 Honda Civic that aside
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from not having you know Wing style doors does not actually even have air
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conditioning you can see that button is uh is an on this particular model it has
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five discreet braks in the windshield a bashed in front left side that actually
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leaks water so I have to have newspaper
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on the floor of my car to soak up the water as it comes in and uh that's
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that's all just aside from it just being like generally pretty horrible so there
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you go guys Barnacles and Jay's two
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cents have been spreading rumors and lies about the car that I drive
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and this is in fact this is in fact it I do I do not drive or own a Lamborghini
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unfortunately so there now we've put that to rest once and for
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all I'll show you an injury
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no capture that on your dash can
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he