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After skiing with an old steam powered cam corder for many years, I am thinking of splashing out on a helmet cam.
Somme good stuff at actioncameras.co.uk, I especially like the Tony Hawks wireless helemet cam for £80. http://www.actioncameras.co.uk/acatalog/Tony_Hawks.html
This is a complete system, no need for anything else, apart from a memory card. Wired systems need gto plugged into an existing camcorder.
I don't expect DVd quality stuff, but some good images of us skiing would be great
Anyone got any experience good or bad will be appreciated.
Cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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320x240 resolution is awful - no better than a cameraphone. I very much doubt it can write much more than 15fps either.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I got one that does 640x480, cannot remember the fps for it though, and I get about half an hour on a 1G card but for some reason it refused to read larger cards. I think it was from Oregon Scientific, via ebay, and whilst It wasn't the best available it's perfectly adequate for what I wanted and a lot easier than trying to carry a camera of anyform whilst also staying upright.
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I have the ATC2k as well.
Does the job 
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Seems to have mixed reviews, how does the ATC2k do on snow with regards to fast skiing/jumps etc.?
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IMHO at the moment if you want any sort of quality you still need to be looking at a headcam that plugs into a camcorder (generally needs analogue In capability). Nothing I have seen or heard of comes close with regards to reasonable quality and ease of use for editing (ie with this its all on the miniDV tape...). I use a sony headcam from rf concepts which gives pretty damn fine performance though it isn't super cheap (+£100) the lens and the chip perform well even in comparison to the sony camcorder + carl Zeiss optics.
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See if you can get Rob@rar's attention: he bought one last year, and has posted footage from it on here. Seems pretty good to me.
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Thanks for the info, I'll check them out.
I like the look of that water proof one as I kayak as well !
Sarge
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I went for the Action Camera ATC 2K.
The picture quality is good enough. The sound is aweful (not bothered about that though)
Version 1 : strapped to the top of the helmet - bounced about all over the place.
Version 2 : Double strapped to the helmet - steady picture of the top of my subjects head.
Version 3 : Tilited it down a bit and got my lad's feet.
Version 4 : Hed the cam and pointed it the skier - all over the place again.
In between tests, I removed the memory card, put it in my digi camera and viewed the footage.
Bottom line is that once I have it aligned correctly it should be OK, but not much good really. Skiing further back from the subject may improve things.
I think I'll just use the 2GB flash card I bought for it in my digi camera and probably take the good old steam powered tape camcorder with me.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I have the oregon Scientific one, £89.99 a good camera, but quite heavy when you wear it on your helmet.
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You know it makes sense.
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Timmaah, yes the Aiptek is solid state, writes directly onto an SD card.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I think I'll be popping down to Staples, also I think my local aldi was doing 2GB pretty cheap.
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Poster: A snowHead
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My last 2GB SD card cost me £4.70 including delivery 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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where from ?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ok i am looking into getting a helmet cam for this years skiing trip. now do i go for one that plugs into a video camera or one that just uses a sd card, my few questions are:
how long would a 2gb sd card last?
which are better quality?
Where do you recommend i get one from?
Thanks
Matt
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Welcome to snowHeads, Matt!
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| how long would a 2gb sd card last? |
about 1 hour in the Oregon Scientific ATC2k
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| which are better quality? |
Using a lipstick lens into a proper camera is far better quality.
| Matt_G wrote: |
| Where do you recommend i get one from? |
Google is your friend on that. Not sure who is doing good offers on them right now.
Hope that helps.
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when you say lip stick lens what do you mean? You got any recommended sites to look at?
Cheers
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Sarge, I use mine on helmet (ATC 2K) once set up and aligned takes reasonable footage. Not DVD quality but didn't pay DVD price.
As for speed - have used on motorcycle at 'faster speed than you will ski'  (but not stupid enough to put footage on U-tube and get fined by Police!!!)
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| offpisteskiing wrote: |
| IMHO at the moment if you want any sort of quality you still need to be looking at a headcam that plugs into a camcorder (generally needs analogue In capability). Nothing I have seen or heard of comes close with regards to reasonable quality and ease of use for editing (ie with this its all on the miniDV tape...). I use a sony headcam from rf concepts which gives pretty damn fine performance though it isn't super cheap (+£100) the lens and the chip perform well even in comparison to the sony camcorder + carl Zeiss optics. |
Agreed, except your camcorder & lens must be really crap if it can't easily outperform your headcam lens. I've got a top range (non-HD) Sony camcorder and high quality 480 line headcam with the latest Sony CCD and good though the headcam is, it's no match for the Zeiss built-in lens in the camcorder.
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Amazon Market olace for my 2GB SD card for £4.70
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