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Post subject: Best place to mount a helmet cam
 Posted: Dec 17, 2011 - 02:05 PM
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First post: Dec 03, 2010
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Location: Glasgow
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I've just got a new helmet and I can't decide the best place to mount my helmet cam. Its the drift stealth so I can mount it any angle as the lens rotates.
I figure right on top of the helmet is probably the safest place as I'm less likely to take a direct hit to the top of my head but I dont think it looks so good.
Also looking to get a variety of shots so if anyone can think of any creative views other than that from the helmet. |
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Post subject: RE: Best place to mount a helmet cam
Posted: Dec 17, 2011 - 02:17 PM
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First post: Oct 07, 2004
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| ... on the end of a pole works best by far. It just looks plain silly on a lid, but if you must, then to the side seems to work quite well. |
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Post subject: RE: Best place to mount a helmet cam
Posted: Dec 17, 2011 - 02:20 PM
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| Yeah, I got a monopod to but cba with it getting in the way all the time |
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Posted: Dec 17, 2011 - 05:18 PM
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First post: Feb 15, 2011
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Location: Somewhere between the mountains and the sea.
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| Get some more sticky velcro & you can put some on the top and the side. Another interesting angle is to use the goggle strap it comes with round the top of your boot, front or back. Get a quality suction mount. Gives a whole range of options - front, back, point it at yourself etc. |
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Posted: Dec 18, 2011 - 09:08 AM
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First post: Nov 13, 2010
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Location: Glasgow-ish
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| Anyone else get really bored with first person footage if it's not strapped to their chest bombing 60 degree chutes? I tried the camera on a stick thing and I sucked at it, would rather just get a handheld and film my friends, always makes for better footage. |
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Posted: Dec 18, 2011 - 03:45 PM
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| Mines ok on the side but I agree that footage from a helmet mounted camera gets quite boring after a while. I use mine in my hand now to follow others quite close, hold it behind me, low down for different angles. Just about to try a monopod. |
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Posted: Dec 18, 2011 - 03:49 PM
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Posted: Dec 19, 2011 - 10:13 AM
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I find footage taken with a camera on the helmet a bit boring, try & be creative and strap it to a pole, the board etc and mix up the shots...have a look at the movie I did a couple of years ago...I've since got a longer monopod and refined alot of the mounting points.
http://contour.com/stories/piste-bashing-austrian-style |
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Posted: Dec 19, 2011 - 09:22 PM
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First post: Sep 30, 2008
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cwj wrote:
Anyone else get really bored with first person footage if it's not strapped to their chest bombing 60 degree chutes? I tried the camera on a stick thing and I sucked at it, would rather just get a handheld and film my friends, always makes for better footage.
I totally agree - i got given a helmet cam by the parents of one of my best mates for my 18th on the 6th, used it this week - ok, its not HD but for getting some footage of my dad falling over, me riding powder and tours of the hotel/village for my mum (all done on the last day in a bit of a mad rush) its perfect. However, none of the videos are anywhere near interesting enough to post online - unless you're riding like Torstein, the footage is VERY dull.
That said, for documentary-style films, its perfect. - perfect for in-car footage of the crew, etc etc - but how many of us actually make a full edit of our trips?
Im still thinking of getting a contour, im just going to wait for the technology to improve a bit more and come down in price  |
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Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 11:55 AM
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First post: Dec 03, 2010
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Location: Glasgow
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| Thanks yakboy, I especially liked the crotch cam view lol |
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Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 12:42 PM
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First post: Apr 20, 2011
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I have long felt that a helmet cam footage was tedious in addition to coming across as narcissistic idiot.
I am now considering buying one. 
I want to have footage of my wife and kids skiing and having fun as we go down the slope. I want to be filmed. Nothing better than a video for feedback and correcting mistakes. And, also for a little showing off as well possibly?
Any ideas for a cheapo pole mount?
How secure is it fitting the camera to the board? I'm a bit worried about impatient French skiiers knocking it down in lift queues. |
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Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 03:19 PM
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Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 04:30 PM
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I'm glad it's not just me. I though I was a miserable bastard not liking it. I always have to fight the urge to post horrible comments on videos.
I am due one for Xmas though so I'll be expecting everyone to gush over my video. |
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Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 05:19 PM
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First post: Aug 20, 2007
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I got one because family members wanted to see videos (or so they said), so far I've been useless at using it. Either forgetting to use it, or having it pointed at the floor. It has been useful as a hand-held video recording type-thing to get nice sweeping videos of Glencoe, Nevis and the Highlands in general, but that's me standing still holding the damn thing in my hand, so there you go.
I doubt that even if I made nice videos they'd go anywhere bar where family can see them. I think the only one I ever put up online anywhere (facebook) was one of the cliffy at Glencoe simply because so many (mostly skiing) friends kept expressing surpise at the concept of a single chairlift. And it was foggy! So I have an excuse if it's rubbish.
As far as mounting goes, the two times I've used it have been on the side of my goggles. It works, but rattles about something chronic, couldn't judge how good it is because of the aformentioned floor pointing issue. |
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caff
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Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 08:44 PM
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First post: Dec 03, 2010
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Location: Glasgow
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| So we are all agreed that helmet cams are sh1t, yet we all have one or are getting one. So heres the plan .... lets all get together and put them round in a circle and create a matrix style shot =D |
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