I'm still on break, so please pretend I'm not posting this, but, just in case you pine to be a viral sensation on YouTube or are dying to make a submission to America's Funniest Home Videos—or you just have a "jackass" streak—Amazon's Deal of the Day today is a helmet cam
Mike
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Featured Comment by Jim Richardson: "Actually, I think I'm going to do this, just because I am so sure that (with a live internet feed) everybody would be interested in seeing what I do sitting in my office all day. Fascinating stuff, really, sorting papers, throwing the empty bag of Gummi Bears in the trash, Googling myself about 83 times, stuff like that. But in my case I'm going to add a pulse monitor for those cases where the image doesn't move for a long time and people wonder if I'm still alive. Always thinking of my fans."
And then you can record something like this.
Posted by: vlatko | Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 12:22 PM
Or something like this.
Posted by: vlatko | Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 12:25 PM
you're outdated - meanwhile there's the gopro hd hero2 which shoots 1080p, too...
Posted by: Pawlikviewing | Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 01:30 PM
Here's some relevant info for those considering this deal. It compares version 1 with version 2 of the GoPro Hero with regards to "sharpness", noise, and how they deal with contrast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8O3jc9O8so&feature=youtu.be
Posted by: mike | Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 02:57 PM
I've had a still camera lashed to the back of a motorcycle. It took a picture every 15 seconds and I just chose the best ones. focus and exposure were fixed, and though the shutter was set to a 500th of a sec, shake reduction didn't always succeed. Fair enough, the vibration an old Japanese four gives off isn't quite what the camera designers had in mind. Rubber mounting next time.
I couldn't even see the camera, let alone know when it was taking a shot, but some of the photos were quite well composed. If you click on my name below then on 'sets', you'll see them.
Posted by: Roger Bradbury | Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 07:50 PM
Eric Kim of the Eric Kim Street Photography Blog( http://erickimphotography.com/blog/ ) uses a GoPro HD attached to different cameras when he shoots street photography. Here is a pretty neat video from his series showcasing that http://youtu.be/-VmAbMO5NBI
Posted by: Christopher | Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 08:47 PM
battery bulit-in warmer ... why this idea not widely used? Instead you warm up using your body heat and exchange battery ...
Posted by: Dennis Ng | Sunday, 27 November 2011 at 01:35 AM
Jim, you can easily make it appear more dramatic by using the slow-motion capabilities of that camera.
Posted by: CMS | Sunday, 27 November 2011 at 02:11 AM
Eh and now a Panasonic Shaver.....could Amazon have noticed I didn't shave today due to a not to nice head-crash......turning my main partition into a heap of rubble. Well after fighting back a bit i'm up and running again. I knew it was a good idea not to store pictures on the same drive as my system.....
Greetings, Ed
So only my email adresses are all lost but hey, that list will regenerate itself soon enough.
Posted by: Ed | Sunday, 27 November 2011 at 12:21 PM