Originally Posted by ItsJustMe

OK, I just did my first ride with the Garmin VIRB and there's a MAJOR, MAJOR issue.

Loop recording is limited. When I see a setting for "5 minutes" on loop, I assume it means it records 5 minutes, then goes to the next file, etc, until the card fills up, then starts deleting the oldest file. This is how ABSOLUTELY EVERY OTHER CAMERA EVER MADE does loop recording.

No, when they say "5 minutes" they mean it records 1 minute segments until you get to 5 minutes then loops around. You only have 5 minutes worth of footage.

The maximum setting is 30 minutes.

This means if you're in an accident and you're unable or unaware enough to go shut off the camera, at most 30 minutes later your video evidence gets overwritten with a nice image of the grass at the side of the road.

Had I known this before I definitely would not have bought this camera. I guess I will turn loop mode off and just try to remember to erase the card every few rides. I hope it makes a lot of noise when I turn it on and the card is full, in case I forget to erase it.

I hope they fix this in firmware because other than this, I love this camera. I was going to buy another for front-facing but definitely will not now, unless they update the firmware. 'Course they probably do not care, I don't think commuters with evidence cams was their target market.