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Charles
I was wondering if you could use your cell phone video camera to record your whole interaction with the officer when getting pulled over.
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Video, certainly - Audio is another matter. Technically speaking, video recording from the public domain (far less from your private car) is fair game at any time and is admissible. Audio on the other hand requires consent (or in some cases notice) to be admissible in court.
Two possible ways around this is a notice placed in a location visible from outside of your car (it does not have to be too overt) stating something to the effect of, "Vehicle equipped with audio/video recorders that may be used at any time."
The second is to inform the officer that he is being recoded AFTER you start. Given that it is your private car, they cannot tell you to turn it off and notice makes the recoding admissible. The problem is that you are almost certain to make the officer unhappy.
I think that recoding of police incidents is very important - many times I have seen officers bend the truth or mis-quote what a suspect had said. Their reports are taken as Gospel at court and the only way to disprove them is to have a recording - 20 witnesses on your behalf will not be as convincing.
Why should you not rely on police recorders? Well, first of all not all officers have them. Second, not all officers use them when they have them. Third, the officer knows when he turns the recorder on and off and behaves accordingly. I know of cases where the officers did a behaved improperly, plain lied and threatened a person and when the audio and video were subpoenaed, they were either edited to not show the time in question or the recoding simply didn’t take place from the beginning of the incident.
Video, certainly - Audio is another matter. Technically speaking, video recording from the public domain (far less from your private car) is fair game at any time and is admissible. Audio on the other hand requires consent (or in some cases notice) to be admissible in court.
Two possible ways around this is a notice placed in a location visible from outside of your car (it does not have to be too overt) stating something to the effect of, "Vehicle equipped with audio/video recorders that may be used at any time."
The second is to inform the officer that he is being recoded AFTER you start. Given that it is your private car, they cannot tell you to turn it off and notice makes the recoding admissible. The problem is that you are almost certain to make the officer unhappy.
I think that recoding of police incidents is very important - many times I have seen officers bend the truth or mis-quote what a suspect had said. Their reports are taken as Gospel at court and the only way to disprove them is to have a recording - 20 witnesses on your behalf will not be as convincing.
Why should you not rely on police recorders? Well, first of all not all officers have them. Second, not all officers use them when they have them. Third, the officer knows when he turns the recorder on and off and behaves accordingly. I know of cases where the officers did a behaved improperly, plain lied and threatened a person and when the audio and video were subpoenaed, they were either edited to not show the time in question or the recoding simply didn’t take place from the beginning of the incident.
What devices support 1/8 speed video recording and work well in low light?
Scotty Bad
My friend recently got a Galaxy Note 2 with a new phone contract. It does high speed (slow motion) video recording at 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 speed. It works VERY well at night. I currently use a Casio Exilim camera for slow motion video, but it's only good in the daytime. The ISO setting doesn't apply to videos, so they appear black except in direct sunlight.
Before I fork out $700 or more for a Galaxy Note 2, are there other devices that do 1/8 speed video recording and work well in lower-light conditions? Phones, cameras, tablets, etc... I don't care which.
Answer
you can't load data onto a data card at 8x speed. what the Galaxy does is "burst" recording. normal video is compressed by omitting 7 out of each 8 frames. but the solid state memory in the camera is fast enough to capture every frame. of course that memory fills up pretty fast, so after 5 or 10 seconds the burst stops and then you have to wait as the camera software converts those frames into normal video for storage on the SD card. On playback it gives the illusion of 1/8th speed video. This method of "high speed" recording is no better than ordinary miniDV recording since miniDV records every frame which can be slowed down in a video editor to the same quality standards.
the reason you don't need more light for this camera is because it is working at normal video speed (30 frames per second) so you have not increased the shutter speed at all. In true high speed video, the effective shutter has to be increased in step with the frame rate. That is why the Exilim requires more light at the highest settings. If you can accept burst recording at 8x versus continuous true high speed recording, then you can get that feature in a Sony camcorder which is superior in quality to the Galaxy.
you can't load data onto a data card at 8x speed. what the Galaxy does is "burst" recording. normal video is compressed by omitting 7 out of each 8 frames. but the solid state memory in the camera is fast enough to capture every frame. of course that memory fills up pretty fast, so after 5 or 10 seconds the burst stops and then you have to wait as the camera software converts those frames into normal video for storage on the SD card. On playback it gives the illusion of 1/8th speed video. This method of "high speed" recording is no better than ordinary miniDV recording since miniDV records every frame which can be slowed down in a video editor to the same quality standards.
the reason you don't need more light for this camera is because it is working at normal video speed (30 frames per second) so you have not increased the shutter speed at all. In true high speed video, the effective shutter has to be increased in step with the frame rate. That is why the Exilim requires more light at the highest settings. If you can accept burst recording at 8x versus continuous true high speed recording, then you can get that feature in a Sony camcorder which is superior in quality to the Galaxy.
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