Found a Inexpensive Helmet Cam

Just found this while searching my camera sites.....http://www.goprocamera.com/index4.htm

That Thing is Pretty Kool!!!!

 Amazing how stable the shot is....  Try watching the Motocross heats... Awesome....

I just bought one Saturday. I was going to use it in my bike ride Sunday to capture any downhill carnage but something came up and I didn't get to go.

It's looks easy to attach to pretty much anything. It comes with attachment that have 3M sticky tape on them. I haven't had much time to check video quality yet but the demo videos look good.

Waterproof to 100'- I can see videos of the famous "Mexican Freediving Team" coming up soon....

yeah but with 100' we'll only be able to take it out on shallow dives.     

bsteves has one.

bsteves has one.

Actually Sean I had access to a couple cheap helmet cams from work.  We were using the Oregon Scientific ATC2k (~$90) and attaching them to crab traps.  They never worked well on the the traps because there was a lot of sea lettuce and the lens kept getting covered. 

Anyway, I borrowed one and played with it a bit.  The audio sucks and the video was limited at the time to the 1 Gb card we had (short video w/ good quality or long video with bad quality).

Since then the company has come out with a new model or two that can handle the new SDHC cards (4-8 Gb) so the now you can do longer videos with better quality.

I think having a few of these cheap cams mounted in different ways (helmet, vanity, stern mount, etc..) on your kayak and continuously running would get you enough footage to edit a pretty decent solo little fishing show.

There are a couple other waterproof helmet cams out there and I found a decent review.

http://helmetcamreview.wordpress.com/

Looks like a helmet cam called the Tachyon XC gets the best scores and at $150 isn't too expensive.  The newer Oregon Scientific cameras (ATC5k) does pretty well. The GoPro gets generally low scores except that it excels in waterproofness and its still photo ability.

Brian

These are very cool, even if not so cool-lookin' on yer head! 

We sell the gopro at Aquan Sports....got to play around with the store demo and was pretty impressed Took it to our scuba pool class and wore the gopro on my forehead while I filmed our scuba students under water for almost an hour!! Good stuff!!

We sell the gopro at Aquan Sports....got to play around with the store demo and was pretty impressed Took it to our scuba pool class and wore the gopro on my forehead while I filmed our scuba students under water for almost an hour!! Good stuff!!
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Mooch Bradah do you have the "Wide"? and where is the video sample?

We sell the gopro at Aquan Sports....got to play around with the store demo and was pretty impressed Took it to our scuba pool class and wore the gopro on my forehead while I filmed our scuba students under water for almost an hour!! Good stuff!!
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Mooch Bradah do you have the "Wide"? and where is the video sample?

Mark, I'll post some vids as soon as figure out how to do it ....and yes, we do have the "wide".

mark, here ya go....could not post the scuba class coz I deleted it by mistake Anyway, here's the go pro in our Aquan Pond....

Wide Hero - $149.99 (+10% off NCKA discount)
170 wide angle lens
5MP sensor
Water Proof  to 100FT
56 minutes of 512X384 VIDEO WITH SOUND
3X sequence still photo burst
auto "photo very 2 or 5 seconds" mode
self timer 10s
2xAAA (not included)
usb / rca cable included
operating system: WIN ME/2000/XP/VISTA

Thanks Moochy that looks like a cool toy. It is more suited to diving than the other cams in its price range.

Good demo, Joel.