Yeah, I second the helmet pro version of the gopro. You can also get a
goodie back of extra mounts for about $20.
http://www.goprocamera.com/
One thing though, since there's no image stabilization, you need to have
your helmet fastened pretty securely on your head. Any helmet wobble
really
makes things worse.
brian
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> You mentioned probs with mounting the Gopro - I think most of these
> are taken care of with the gopro helmethero - it comes with a bunch of
> mounting options for different style of helmets, mounting on a flat or
> gently curved surface, etc.
>
> Sound is great, you'll usually want to add some music; but the trick
> for reducing the 50 megs to something reasonable without appreciable
> loss of quality is lots of cutting of footage that is really 'extra'.
> The viewer looses the sense of actually being there through a few
> complete legs but you can still leave in much more than the pro
> videos, which frustrate me that they always cut away as soon as the
> sailor leaves the air/critical section of the wave. I'd actually like
> to see them jibe, or see if they made it over the wall of whitewater,
> but we never seem to get that. How was your video editing software?
> I used the frreebee 'moviemaker' for mine and was surprised that it
> actually worked pretty well (and is given away with/made by
> Microsoft??! Wish their expensive products worked as well!)
>
> THe gopro and most of the smaller cams seem to be 513x384 and 30fps.
> Which is just a little smaller than regular TV/DVD quality. Were you
> actually shooting 640x480? When I downloaded yours it displays in a
> much smaller window than my gopro, and maybe has a bigger file size
> because of the file format? I think the lens is a wider angle, which
> helps with some of the jerkyness (gopro is supposed to add a wide
> angle lens option, but it still is on their site as 'coming soon'.
> When you load any video (except those shot at low res to begin with)
> to youtube it kills it with compression - some of the others like
> vsocial have much better (but still not as good as the original)
> quality.
>
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