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Relive the action with the help of this Sony PFVCTSC1 Action Cam suction cup mount that enables mounting on most porous surfaces, including in your vehicle or boat, to capture every high-speed moment.
Posted by: TLS17
from El Paso, Texas
The Proforma Model PF-VCT-SC1 Suction Cup Mount is sturdy, well-engineered, flexible and high quality. It does what it’s designed to do with no fuss and bother. If you need to attach a video camera to your car or bike, check out this bad boy.
The mount is impressively sturdy. When you torque down the big, hefty tightening clamps, it’s not gonna move. The suction cup is equally impressive. Sucked down onto the windshield and locked in place, this mount won’t fall off unless you whack it smartly with a tire iron. The black-anodized parts are beefy yet precisely made. Those seem like attributes that don’t go together, but this mount has them both.
You can easily attach the included extension if you need to so your camera will clear a steeply raked windshield. You have to be careful mounting the camera to the attachment screw. The screw is longer than most cameras’ tripod sockets, so you can screw it right through the bottom of your camera. Don’t do that!
The Sony DVR-MV1 video recorder that I tested the mount with weighs six ounces, and has a tall and skinny form factor, but it articulated fine, pointed right where I wanted it to and it held its position perfectly.
If you need a suction-cup camera mount, look no further. This is the one.
My Best Buy number: 0764048386
What's great about it: Rugged construction, sturdy mounting, flexibility
What's not so great: No down side at all
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Garmin nüvi 2597LMT Portable GPS: Take this portable GPS along for your next trip, so you can enjoy spoken directions that mention recognizable buildings and other landmarks to guide you. With 10 million points of interest, you'll be able to travel to a variety of locales across the U.S. and Canada.
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4
Great Design and Features—Navigation, Not So Much
on November 30, 2013
Posted by: TLS17
from El Paso, Texas
The Garmin 2597LMT is a well-optioned GPS unit with a lot of features, including some, such as Bluetooth and voice command, that I’ll probably never use. Its combination of technology and price seemed about right to me.
On the plus side:
It is very easy to use. The touchscreen has just the right sensitivity, and all the choices are easy to understand. That’s good, because there’s no user’s manual in the box. If you want one, you have to download it from Garmin’s website.
It is very capable. I tried entering addresses of a few restaurants as destinations, and in each case it came up with the right ones after I had typed in just a few characters. Based on my limited use, there’s little the 2597LMT can’t do from the standpoint of planning a trip.
The display is clear, bright and sharp. I especially like the split-screen photo-realistic rendering of upcoming Interstate exits, and the Lane Assist feature that tells you what lane to get into for an upcoming exit.
The spoken navigation directions are useful, clear and unobtrusive. It doesn’t babble at you if you don’t have to take any action.
On the minus side:
The process of updating the software and maps is poor. It took me an entire weekend, off and on, to do what should have been a simple task. The problem was that the Garmin Express software kept forgetting that the unit was connected to my computer via the included USB cable. This is a fairly common issue with the Garmin cable. I hooked it up with the USB cable from my Sony DSC-H5 digital camera, and it worked much better. It took me about nine hours to download everything. It seems like an unnecessarily slow and fragile updating process.
If I had to summarize how well the 2597LMT navigates, I’d say “Meh.” Some of its instructions were bizarre. For example, it tried to send me a block out of my way, with three turns, to get to a street that I could reach with one turn. It told me to leave the Interstate four exits early to get to the airport. It suggested that I go back out onto an Interstate frontage road and “around the block” through a shopping center to get to a restaurant, when I was at the time sitting in the parking lot of said restaurant. Its navigation algorithms are certainly idiosyncratic, I’ll give it that.
My bottom line:
The Garmin 2597LMT is capable, flexible and easy to use. More times than not, it steered me in the right direction. It sometimes sent me on routes that made little sense, but it eventually got me to where I wanted to go.
What's great about it: Packed with features, easy to use, intuitive, capable
What's not so great: Bizarre navigation instructions at times, updating maps and software is a pain
I would recommend this to a friend!
Durability
4
Ease of Use
4
Features
5
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