GoPro HD Resource Thread-Discussion-Settings-Mounts-Cards-Results
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Well I already tested the durability aspect of the camera..
Be happy to test a protoype screen for them as well !
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Here's the rest of the story.... Some shots of using the RAM mounts attached to the mirror bolts. As mentioned, very simple to do with the busa. Drill the mounts at just the right spot so they can't rotate and on they go.
Btw, this is the all new (to me) R Series windscreen which I like lot more than I thought I would.
Love the shape, so much that when I got back from this ride, ordered another one in blue. Can't beat the price.
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The general idea is to experiment with getting the camera as far away from the bike and rider as possible which changes the field of vision more.
Up close, the shots look like this:
Good results, you see the road, the fellow riders, the mountains (shot on Hwy 108 Sonora Pass), but the rider is the dominant figure in the pic and that gets boring quick. Camera here is about shoulder level, and pointed at the rider. Next thing to try would be pointing the camera directly rearward or offset to the left.
Up close, the shots look like this:
Good results, you see the road, the fellow riders, the mountains (shot on Hwy 108 Sonora Pass), but the rider is the dominant figure in the pic and that gets boring quick. Camera here is about shoulder level, and pointed at the rider. Next thing to try would be pointing the camera directly rearward or offset to the left.
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Original idea was this & use the mirror as a support b/c the further you get away from the bike, the more the weight of the arm overpowers the RAM mounts. Tape the RAM arm to the mirror for more support...
Camera up high, you get to see everything like scenery, camera down low- the more the appearance of speed in the shot.
Camera up high, you get to see everything like scenery, camera down low- the more the appearance of speed in the shot.
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This gave me a shot like this.
Call it a GoPro Gaffe, but although I've shot 10's of thousands of photos through the years, I didn't bother to clean off the lens before we set off. Doh.
Only downside to this up high shot is there's no point of reference and you have to be really on top of the rider in front of you to have him seem close.
Without the bug on my lens, it should look like this:
Not even close.
Call it a GoPro Gaffe, but although I've shot 10's of thousands of photos through the years, I didn't bother to clean off the lens before we set off. Doh.
Only downside to this up high shot is there's no point of reference and you have to be really on top of the rider in front of you to have him seem close.
Without the bug on my lens, it should look like this:
Not even close.
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So next day, tried this. Success.
Problem is weight of the arm. So resting on the saddlebag fixes that problem.
Next problem is the rotation of arm.
Fixed that too with a bit of triangulation.
Attaching two arms doesn't really work either due to the weight. So a bit of bracing with my third RAM ram I've got, plus some tape to keep it from bending and it worked awesome!
http://www.pashnit.com/product/gopro/gopro_HD_hero.html
This photo sticks to the Thirds Rule of good photography.
So the rider occupies less than 1/3 of the photo, the road is another 1/3, and the scenery (ie redwood forest) occupies the other 1/3.
Engaging photography that's pleasing to the eye.
I look at this photo and think, I want to be there!
Problem is weight of the arm. So resting on the saddlebag fixes that problem.
Next problem is the rotation of arm.
Fixed that too with a bit of triangulation.
Attaching two arms doesn't really work either due to the weight. So a bit of bracing with my third RAM ram I've got, plus some tape to keep it from bending and it worked awesome!
http://www.pashnit.com/product/gopro/gopro_HD_hero.html
This photo sticks to the Thirds Rule of good photography.
So the rider occupies less than 1/3 of the photo, the road is another 1/3, and the scenery (ie redwood forest) occupies the other 1/3.
Engaging photography that's pleasing to the eye.
I look at this photo and think, I want to be there!
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me too
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Has anyone tried one of the cheap Chinese 32gb cards off of ebay?
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Skaz great video and thanks for showing the mounts also.
I just got an email saying my replacement is on the way with tracking number..
yippee...
on another note durn my body still hurts from that pic you posted of your hands and forearms..
I just got an email saying my replacement is on the way with tracking number..
yippee...
on another note durn my body still hurts from that pic you posted of your hands and forearms..
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GoPro has finally restocked at the manufacture level, and we've finally got product en route to us again after what seems like a very tiresome backorder. ???
Every camera I have coming to me is spoken for. Off to order some more.
Every camera I have coming to me is spoken for. Off to order some more.
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Well, GoPro finally changed the their site from "coming soon" to "may 17th" for the release date of the new firmware, so hopefully it'll actually happen.
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Cool my new one will be here tomorrow !
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Nice! Now, no chucking this one down the freeway to see if it can survive. . .
Still bothers me that I found all but the data card .
I can only imagine what the last few frames would have looked like ?
I am gonna make pole number two but this time it will be aluminum and a V shape made from two poles and not one.
The view the other one gave me was perfect
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Well, mine fell off my snowboard going down the mountain. That a pretty interesting video. Tumbling down the mountain, stopping, getting hit by other boarders/skiers and going tumbling farther down the mountain.
Thankfully it wasn't buried and was facing up. I saw the red blinking light from the lift on the way back up and got off at the closest stop and got it back.
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GoPro has finally restocked at the manufacture level, and we've finally got product en route to us again after what seems like a very tiresome backorder. ???
Every camera I have coming to me is spoken for. Off to order some more.
Tim, will your new shipment of cameras have the updated firmware? If not how do we go about updating the firmware?