don't get me wrong, i'm a good skier but not brilliant but for some reason been thinking of buying a camera for the helmet. A few weeks ago the In Gear part of the sunday times ran a best of but now cant find it now or rather used it to light the fire! so has anyone used one or can recommend one. Really don't want to spend the earth but just think it would be pretty cool to have one. I'm no computer geek either so simpler the better....any idea's??
The GoPro HD is certainly the one prefered by whitewater kayakers.
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What all 170 grams?
After all it is free
After all it is free
flog873347, yes it has sound, & I think it'll have to be my Christmas & Birthday prezzy
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The go pro HD looks amazing.
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Thanks for the info and jonm, the thread very useful - as always when you start to have a look around there is far too much choice and i do read in to things too much. Do like the look of the Drift X170 Action Camera but no HD (HD model mucho sponds) - question How much do you need HD??
Reviews on GoPro look top but i just dont think i could have a camera (i mean shape) sticking on top of my bonse!!
Of course, the better the camera the more of a horror film i will produce with my skills, may just stick to a poloroid!!
It does sound impressive. Be a massive step up from using a flip!
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We all took out a headcam on our last trip. We paid £6 from ebay for a 720p HD mini cam which we attached to various places. The problem is that the terrain is so varied that its diffcult to always have the right angle. If the cam deosn't have a screen to view what you shot then its pretty random and it took us a couple of days to get it right. Then we had sooooooo much footage I gave up editing it. 6 cams with around 4 hours each cam. We did shoot some great moments but forgot to mark them. We used one of these:
If it doesn't have a screen then dont pay too much. It doesn't make much difference.
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You know it makes sense.
You know, my mate was telling me about the MD80 yesterday. They are supposed to be quite good, and very cheap. A lot of motorcyclists use them, apparently.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Don't know a lot about the drift as its pretty new. Apart from that there really isn't that much choice. Its GoPro or contour. The new contour has GPS tracking which is probably a gimmick but could be quite interesting. Contour sound is apparently a bit sh*t but GoPro isn't awesome. I think I'd go GoPro. Been thinking about selling my 4kam bullet cam and getting a GoPro with chest mount harness.
This is some footage from the latest Contour camera. http://www.pinkbike.com/news/chris-van-dine-contour-red-bull-rampage-2010.html Bearing in mind that chances are, your footage would be no way near as good as that's just how it seems to work with average joe vs manufacturer clips. The colours are all a bit weird in that vid but not sure how much that is just to do with the light.
Go-Pro HD, the image quality is a lot better than the Contour.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
+1 for the gopro hd. Makes you look like cyber man but great quality. I've found that the results are a lot better with it mounted on a collapsible pole instead of my noggin.
Heres a little movie of the family that I did with mine in july
Having done some trawling through the web, pricing is steep on the Drift but, if you have a brother in the States then it becomes a tad better! £329 gbp or in the States $329 bucks - so with exchnge brings it in at 200gbp. Top end but may provide hours of entertainment on the apres ski!
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flog873347 wrote:
Having done some trawling through the web, pricing is steep on the Drift but, if you have a brother in the States then it becomes a tad better! £329 gbp or in the States $329 bucks - so with exchnge brings it in at 200gbp. Top end but may provide hours of entertainment on the apres ski!
The Contour HD has lasers to help you mount it correctly. With a feature like that, who cares about image quality! Seriously though, it's a great piece of kit for the price but does suffer quite badly from wind noise at any sort of speed while skiing. If you're up to the task you can wire in your own mic to sort this but this will no doubt invalidate your warranty (can see how to do this on YouTube where you can also find lots of independent reviews on headcams).
One piece of advice before going HD - make sure your computer is high enough spec to cope with HD video editing or you'll get bored of it very quickly!
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frankm wrote:
The Contour HD has lasers to help you mount it correctly. With a feature like that, who cares about image quality! Seriously though, it's a great piece of kit for the price but does suffer quite badly from wind noise at any sort of speed while skiing. If you're up to the task you can wire in your own mic to sort this but this will no doubt invalidate your warranty (can see how to do this on YouTube where you can also find lots of independent reviews on headcams).
so your more bothered about some gimmicky lazy man's laser than image quality?
After all it is free
After all it is free
milnerhome, I think it was a joke.
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milnerhome, may be....maybe not he says with some nervousness.......... why?
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their total gimics, a few of the top guy's in downhill have been riding with them a bit over the season, only because they've been given a handy wad of cash to be seen wearing them.
If your after image quality then the Go-Pro wins it every time.
I'd even suggest a Contour instead of one of those pieces of tat! the remote feature whilst seeming useful is pointless if your skiing as its just as easy to press a button on your head as it is to press a button on your wrist. I also wouldn't like to get it covered in snow as it doesn't look the most waterproof, the screen is also pointless.
I'm not just a ranting internet warrior either. I'm filming a full length mountain bike film at the moment so I've spent a few months considering the different POV camera's available, including the highly expensive upper range ones and I've concluded that the Go-Pro is simply the outright winner (someone from go-pro hand me a brown envelope now?)
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Go pro's are used by alot of professionals... Even Sky have used them for POV 3D setups.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
uses include the BBC, their 3D setup's being used all over now
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