GoPro aquired. It's experimenting time!

[flaming]

Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ4WWi6T2oA

And soon I'll have a memory card big enough to allow me to record video for the length of a race...

 

[Stingo]

Thank goodness there is a mute button on youtube

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ4WWi6T2oA

And soon I'll have a memory card big enough to allow me to record video for the length of a race...

Are you sure that is video?

Looks like time-lapse still to me.

 

[flaming]

Looks like time-lapse still to me.

yes it is. As the video would have stopped halfway through the race due to lack of space....

 

[snooks]

I don't like the slanty horizons or the helms rse

 

[flaming]

I don't like the slanty horizons or the helms rse

Oi! I'm quite proud of my rse....

 

[snooks]

Oi! I'm quite proud of my rse....

Well you move the wheel too much, look at it, it's all over the place!!!!

 

[dylanwinter]

In my opinion....

having played with a go pro a bit now.....

in my opnion the xacti has the edge

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/ktl-scuttlebutt/scuttlebutt-66-troublesome-reach/

Dylan

 

[snooks]

Get a head strap for the GoPro, it should sort out all the slanty ness and avoid shots of your rse

 

[snooks]

having played with a go pro a bit now.....

in my opnion the xacti has the edge

Dylan

Interestingly someone I was having a chat to video was saying that the advantage the GoPro has is the accessories, there are many other small lightweight waterproof stills cameras out there with much better video quality for less money.

 

[flaming]

Get a head strap for the GoPro, it should sort out all the slanty ness and avoid shots of your rse

thought about using the head strap, but if I wear it, it's going to be a boring video, as for minutes at a time, it'll just be the telltales!

Working on a plan to put a pole on the back of the boat to lift the thing above my head, and prevent rse shots.
Although another suggestion was to sell advertising spots on the seat of my oilskins....

 

[snooks]

Although another suggestion was to sell advertising spots on the seat of my oilskins....

You could make quite a bit of money with all that space to sell

If I didn't say it someone else would have

 

[st599]

I've been writing a few computer programmes for the GoPro.

Super slomos and video stabilisation are good using its output.

 

[mcframe]

thought about using the head strap, but if I wear it, it's going to be a boring video, as for minutes at a time, it'll just be the telltales!

Working on a plan to put a pole on the back of the boat to lift the thing above my head, and prevent rse shots.
Although another suggestion was to sell advertising spots on the seat of my oilskins....

Stick it on a (cheap) monopod and wave it about - I've had reasonable results with things varying from an old bulletcam (wired into a DV cam around my neck - a poor man's http://www.polecam.com), Pentax Optio on self-timer, and my current Xacti. One of the (power)kite shops is offering a free (power)kite for the GoPro - that could add a whole new angle to the "row the tender round at sunset" cliche ;->

Dylan would approve - I once filmed kids Xmas multicam with a bulletcam hidden *inside* the tree for present-opening-reaction-shots.