Transcend Pro200 (model possibly now superceeded).

at least 4 or 5 in use in the family cars, none given any bother, small enough to be reasonably discrete. but not so small that you need the eyes of a hawk to see the menu options, last time i looked about £75/90.

Only downside, no internal battery so if left for several days its possible the date/time stamp may be lost, so if left for a while check the date and time are still current.

just looked, it appears the new model is 220 (roughly £120), has GPS, 200 doesn't, i'd rather not have GPS for various reasons, others may feel differently.

I use a Viofo A119. Did my research, was small, reasonably discrete, runs off a capactor so no battery probs when car parked on hot days, and easy to remove and store. Choice of qualities too, plenty of other menu options. Sellers on ebay.

A119 for me as well. Great video quality and very neat. Others have more advanced features if thats your thing.

Wow all those dash cams sound expensive. I got mine from BP station and it was only £15 plus £5 for an SD Card. Records ok and should be ok for evidence of needed, which is the only reason.

Unless you are making a you tube video I can't see the point of v an expensive one. If it got nicked I wouldn't be distraught, if I'd spent £200 I would be.

Only bad point is it interferes with mw and lw radio.

Well I did quite a bit of research and was happy to pay what I did. I believe I bought decent cameras from an ethical company who have a proven track record for their customer service.

When people only want cheap it just lowers standards and quality. Also lowers the wages of those involved with the manufacture. Everyone loses.

Your £15 pound camera was most likely made in China (let's face it most electronic items are made there). The parts in your camera probably cost around £2. The rest of the cost is: shipping from China, labour costs (for manufacture) and BP making a small profit for selling it. Do you have confidence that a camera with £2 worth of parts will record in the event of an accident (without corrupting the final file in the event of power supply failure)? I don't!

Wow all those dash cams sound expensive. I got mine from BP station and it was only £15 plus £5 for an SD Card. Records ok and should be ok for evidence of needed, which is the only reason.

Unless you are making a you tube video I can't see the point of v an expensive one. If it got nicked I wouldn't be distraught, if I'd spent £200 I would be.

Only bad point is it interferes with mw and lw radio.

Unfortunately, there is a some good stuff produced in China and an awful lot of junk, which is why £shops flourish.

The key purpose of a dash cam is to record an incident if and when it happens but if the quality of the reproduced image is so poor that a numberplate cannot be easily read or even screen shot as evidence, then why bother with a cam? Add to that cheap cams cannot handle night time capture particularly well, they underexpose, cannot deal with the bright lights quickly, in dark/shadowy areas the gain is increased and you get a coa***/grainy/pixelated view.

That's why you need to look at footage others have taken with their cameras, night and day to see if the quality is appropriate for you.

I often wince at stills from bank, petrol station or even public transport footage when there is a bid to identify a suspect, and the image is simply awful, and captured on a cheap CCTV camera. My day job is in publishing, so I see lots of digital images from the best to the worst, and you certainly dont need to spend a bundle on a decent digital camera to get published. Similarly, you dont need to spend £200 on a dash cam and I am surprised people to (certain car parts shop, perhaps...), but at £15, you are getting what you pay for.

As for being nicked, my Viofo A119 can be removed and stowed in the glovebox in under 5 seconds, the GPS mount it fixes to remains on the screen with the power cable. Again,look at what will work best for you. It's why I have never bought a TV without seeing a proper transmitted image, none of this fancy hi res stuff created by the manufacturer to show the set at its best.

As has been mentioned, look at the reviews for cameras from Techmoan, as £80 to £100 gets you a good cam, and buy your cards from Amazon, as there are fakes on auction sites.