Field Testing: Hero #1

RE: Hero cam testing.

conducted some street and trail testing to get a handle on the new helmet cam. While I await the proper bike mounts to be delivered, I jury-rigged up the gorillapod for mounting on the bike stem, results follow.


Lessons Learned:
Cons:

• gorillapod mount on the stem proved chattery, unstable: need better mount.

• audio is tinny, shouldn't prove to be a real problem as I'll audio overlay anyway.

• avoid low sun angles, which washes the vid out.

• focal length proves to be out to maybe 15-20 yards, any farther and the subjects prove too small to view.

• battery hog: burned thru rechargeable AAA nimh batteries in 2 hours: need LI batteries that are on order.

Pros:

• the capture is pretty smooth at speed.

• Color and focus seem good.

• fisheye aperture gives good representation of surrounds, no tunnel effect.

• Totally hands free capture.

• Recorded 90min of vid before batteries ran out, schweet.

Have an idea for chest-mounting the gorillapod onto my camelbak strap, seems to be much more stable, try that out tomorrow.

EDIT: playing around with vid edit software. Amazing what a heroic score will do to mask mediocre riding, huh? FYI that is indeed my theme music when I ride- lol.