Go pro in action

Needs a bit of grading and the audio replaced... I don't like the widey widey bit either, But You can chop that down in the settings...

I have just got a new hero 3 which I am gonna attatch to various bits this summer.... ( but not with the suction thing which someone not me in the company used on a car shot last week... Which resulted in us getting a new hero 3 to replace the hero2....)
 
photodog said:
Needs a bit of grading and the audio replaced... I don't like the widey widey bit either, But You can chop that down in the settings...

I have just got a new hero 3 which I am gonna attatch to various bits this summer.... ( but not with the suction thing which someone not me in the company used on a car shot last week... Which resulted in us getting a new hero 3 to replace the hero2....)
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have you got any shots from the new one

I would love to see how it behaves in the hands of some-one who knows what they are doing

and also if you can get any usable sound from it

D
 
dylanwinter said:
have you got any shots from the new one

I would love to see how it behaves in the hands of some-one who knows what they are doing

and also if you can get any usable sound from it

D
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I would like to see some shots from it from someone who knows what they are doing as well....

I can't imagine you can get proper audio from it... But you can't on a DSLR either....

I have to say that we barely used our hero 2 before it was desparoed... And I was unimpressed... It really needed good light ... And I was not happy with using streamclip to put it into a editable codec....

I think it has it's place... So far for us we haven't found it.... The DSLR's produce such good images right out of the can that everything else is a dissapointment... I am not really happy even with the XF300 which shoots 4.2.2 at 50mbps....

I shot this 3 years ago on the 5dmk2 with a 21mm Leitz... It's automatic on the camera and untouched except to be chopped down for the web...



None of that barrel distortion and the colour is spot on.... And even the audio is not that bad! (shot in the same place as the other vid...)

The DSLR's really do make it look easy.... And I don't think you need to go wider than 21mm as shown....
 
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photodog said:
I would like to see some shots from it from someone who knows what they are doing as well....

I can't imagine you can get proper audio from it... But you can't on a DSLR either....

I have to say that we barely used our hero 2 before it was desparoed... And I was unimpressed... It really needed good light ... And I was not happy with using streamclip to put it into a editable codec....

I think it has it's place... So far for us we haven't found it.... The DSLR's produce such good images right out of the can that everything else is a dissapointment... I am not really happy even with the XF300 which shoots 4.2.2 at 50mbps....

I shot this 3 years ago on the 5dmk2 with a 21mm Leitz... It's automatic on the camera and untouched except to be chopped down for the web...



None of that barrel distortion and the colour is spot on.... And even the audio is not that bad! (shot in the same place as the other vid...)

The DSLR's really do make it look easy.... And I don't think you need to go wider than 21mm as shown....
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I use a Lumix mike that goes into the hot shoe on my panasonic camera - it is designed for a DSLR but does an excellent job
 
photodog said:
I shot this 3 years ago on the 5dmk2 with a 21mm Leitz... It's automatic on the camera and untouched except to be chopped down for the web...



None of that barrel distortion and the colour is spot on.... And even the audio is not that bad! (shot in the same place as the other vid...)

The DSLR's really do make it look easy.... And I don't think you need to go wider than 21mm as shown....
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Nah, can't be right, too much distortion. Makes the helmsman look too round.
 
dylanwinter said:
still got that weird distortion there

and the sound that seems as though it arriving down a tube

D
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It may be distortion to you but we are trying to see whats happening on a 12m x 6.5m playground without jumping off the boat. The sound is strange as the camera is enclosed in a waterproof case, the sounds are being transmitted through the structure of the boat. We can use an optional rear cover that picks up sound through the air, out of the case the camera sound is quite good but needs shielding from wind noise. I often use clips from my GoPro interspersed with clips from the Xacti, it all looks fine to me, perhaps an advantage of being an untrained amateur

Peter..
 
dylanwinter said:
I use a Lumix mike that goes into the hot shoe on my panasonic camera - it is designed for a DSLR but does an excellent job
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We use the rodes.... But they are limited so a lot of the time we will use the radio mics or the shotgun... The zoom works very well as well...

I would like a easy and inexpensive way to get multiple xlr inputs Into the camera...
 
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Adonnante said:
It may be distortion to you but we are trying to see whats happening on a 12m x 6.5m playground without jumping off the boat. The sound is strange as the camera is enclosed in a waterproof case, the sounds are being transmitted through the structure of the boat. We can use an optional rear cover that picks up sound through the air, out of the case the camera sound is quite good but needs shielding from wind noise. I often use clips from my GoPro interspersed with clips from the Xacti, it all looks fine to me, perhaps an advantage of being an untrained amateur

Peter..
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so you have both Peter

tell me about the difference

I have only used Xacti and the Panasonic equivalent

never used a Go pro

but the World looks weird through it

D
 
photodog said:
I would like to see some shots from it from someone who knows what they are doing as well....

I can't imagine you can get proper audio from it... But you can't on a DSLR either....

I have to say that we barely used our hero 2 before it was desparoed... And I was unimpressed... It really needed good light ... And I was not happy with using streamclip to put it into a editable codec....

I think it has it's place... So far for us we haven't found it.... The DSLR's produce such good images right out of the can that everything else is a dissapointment... I am not really happy even with the XF300 which shoots 4.2.2 at 50mbps....

I shot this 3 years ago on the 5dmk2 with a 21mm Leitz... It's automatic on the camera and untouched except to be chopped down for the web...



None of that barrel distortion and the colour is spot on.... And even the audio is not that bad! (shot in the same place as the other vid...)

The DSLR's really do make it look easy.... And I don't think you need to go wider than 21mm as shown....
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The moire and scaling artefacts are odd though.
 
dylanwinter said:
so you have both Peter
never used a Go pro

but the World looks weird through it
D
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Thats the advantage though in some respect Dylan for me, the fish eye view gives a huge wide angle shot, I think you can reduce this in the settings. The sound has always been pretty rubbish, but I bought mine for its hardy features.

One a side note, I had a play with time lapse photography Monday night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegBQj7gK8o

I need to pick a more interesting scene next time, but this was done with the Go Pro, YouTube destroys the video quality unfortunately (or Adobe Premiere), might upload it to vimeo.com today and compare the quality.
 
timmygobang said:
Thats the advantage though in some respect Dylan for me, the fish eye view gives a huge wide angle shot, I think you can reduce this in the settings. The sound has always been pretty rubbish, but I bought mine for its hardy features.

One a side note, I had a play with time lapse photography Monday night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegBQj7gK8o

I need to pick a more interesting scene next time, but this was done with the Go Pro, YouTube destroys the video quality unfortunately (or Adobe Premiere), might upload it to vimeo.com today and compare the quality.
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few questions

why is is 4 x 3 - can you make it 16 x 9

can you re-set it to lose the fish eye and curvey fences

I though that the go pro records in HD

you can upload to youtube in HD

and I always crank up the contrast and brightness before uploading to youtube

D
 
dylanwinter said:
few questions

why is is 4 x 3 - can you make it 16 x 9

can you re-set it to lose the fish eye and curvey fences

I though that the go pro records in HD

you can upload to youtube in HD

and I always crank up the contrast and brightness before uploading to youtube

D
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Page 22 has the screen ratio you want - GoPro3
http://gopro.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/HD3_UM_Black_ENG_FINAL_Web.pdf

GoPro2 not so sure
http://cbcdn1.gp-static.com/uploads/product_manual/file/41/HD2_UserManual_ENG1.pdf

Yeh I need to check next time i upload to youtube, I thought it would do it automatically but perhaps not.
 
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