While I don't doubt you, isn't that unsafe? But let's move to what they install in cop cars and such. It's called a DVR and uses various cameras with anywhere from 100 to 1,000 GB of removable hard disk space. Given the HDDs run about 50 bucks you can pop new drives in and use some video editing to reduce the frames per second even lower than what the DVR offers.
Example at http://www.seondesign.com/dvrs/trooper-tl2.html
Such recorders can drop to 1 FPS and other settings depending on your need. There are too many cameras to list for such things.
Bob
Please help. I am looking for a digital camcorder that has the time lapse feature as well as a 33.7 mm wide angle lens.
I would like to film what I see on my road trips by attaching a camera to the dashboard of my car. Some of my drives are over 200 hours long, so filming my trip and then speeding up the video is not an option, as the resulting file would be too large. (I am not prepared to purchase an external hard drive every time I go on a road trip.) So the camera that I am looking for should have a time lapse feature. This way it will take an image every second, and then when the video is played at 30 fps, it will be sped up 30 times. I experimented and learned that the video looks reasonably smooth when it is played at 8 frames per second.
Recently, I experimented with a JVC camcorder (JVC EVERIO GZ-HM30). I discovered that I need a wide angle lens. The JVC camcorder was missing about 50% of the scenery. At the electronics store I noticed that a camcorder with a 33.7 mm wide angle lens doubled the field of vision. Unfortunately, it didn't have the time lapse feature.
All JVC camcorders seem to have time lapse. But none of them have the 33.7 mm wide angle lens. Some Samsung camcorders have time lapse, but I couldn't find one with a 33.7 mm wide angle lens... I am hoping that someone might know of a new or used digital camcorder out there that has both features.
Aside: GoPro cameras are really wonderful, except for one problem. I had been in contact with GoPro technical support. They told me that GoPro cameras allow time lapse filming, but time lapse is done using the photo mode. GoPro cameras allow one to shoot videos using a relatively low quality setting. Unfortunately for me, the lowest quality for photos that these cameras allow is 5 mps, and if I shoot one photo per second for 200 hours, the video file that I would end up with would be well over the 50Gb limit that I would prefer to have. So if I use GoPro to shoot a 200 hour long video, I will end up with a huge file. If I use GoPro's time lapse feature for 200 hours, I will still end up with an unreasonably big file... I had to conclude that GoPro is not a good option for me.
I have been struggling to find a camcorder to allow me to film my drives for about a month now. At some point it started to feel like pulling teeth. I would truly appreciate your kind help.

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