jch364
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Ok so I decided to bite the bullet and get a gopro. Its funny really I always wanted to get a video camera for my bike when I go to the dragon and such and wanted one but thought, nah its too expensive. Funny thing is though I think I spent close to the same amount on crap that didnt work..lol I had a small video camera that used the small cassettes tapes. Ehh not that great and the only place I could put it was on the tank and the adapter was like $30 or more. Not that great. Then I bought one of those kodak zi6 cameras plus a couple of memory cards, crap ton of batteries and a techmount. Again that must have been close to $200 by the time I was done. Oh and by the way. Putting it on the frame slider and hitting the dragon might sound like a good idea but after about the 3rd pass the vibration from the frame slider scrambled the internals on the camera like an egg! I was so pizzed off I chunked it off the side of the mountain...lol... So once again I relearned the lesson of just pay the money and get the right tool for the job the first time and you wont be disappointed. I swear every time I have ever taken a short cut with my busa on something it never ever works... of course Ive never taken short cuts on bike parts cause I know better. Just the extra stuff that bites me in the booty.. Anyway.. so I decided to get the gopro hero 3. I thought about getting the black but geesh. $400 for just the camera unit.. Nah I mean 12mp is great but I just dont think I really need that anyway. I mean for my purposes just tooling around or vacation at the dragon or whatever, 12mp is a little over kill for me so I elected to get the white which is 5mp for $200. That way I could get the extra stuff and wont spend much over $400 total which I thought was a good compromise. So for about $450 I got the camera. Battery back pack, extra battery, a side suction mount, l.e.d. video screen, and 2 64 gig cards for that price. I thought that was pretty good. Got everything except the cards from Best buy since the price for the unit and stuff was pretty close every place I looked besides I got same as cash so that wasnt a bad deal overall. I got the cards off of Amazon and got a great deal on them. 2 64 gig speed class 10 cards for about $70 is an outstanding deal I thought. ... so I got the package yesterday but I had to go to work. I was like a kid at Christmas. Opened the packages up as soon as I got home last night.
One thing for sure, they package the crap out of these things. Geesh, I was like how the heck do I get the darn thing open.??? lol Any way got it opened up and was surprised at how tiny this thing really is. I have never seen one in person and I thought that it was a lot bigger than it really was. The pics on line are huge. I never realized the difference. THe quality of the product looks to be very good. They dont play around with the water proof housing it comes with. Every extra piece I bought came with at least 2 different types of backings. one solid and one called skeleton which is opened in the back. the lcd screen even came with a water proof touch screen to boot.! well worth it i think. I was a little concerned about hooking the camera up to the suction mount and putting it on the bike but after testing that sucker, no pun intended, out I am no longer worried. Wow it really holds on.! I think I will get a tether for it anyways just cause it will make me feel better. cant wait to try it out and post some videos when i get back from the dragon in August.
here is a pic of the stuff I got. AWSOMENESS!!
One thing for sure, they package the crap out of these things. Geesh, I was like how the heck do I get the darn thing open.??? lol Any way got it opened up and was surprised at how tiny this thing really is. I have never seen one in person and I thought that it was a lot bigger than it really was. The pics on line are huge. I never realized the difference. THe quality of the product looks to be very good. They dont play around with the water proof housing it comes with. Every extra piece I bought came with at least 2 different types of backings. one solid and one called skeleton which is opened in the back. the lcd screen even came with a water proof touch screen to boot.! well worth it i think. I was a little concerned about hooking the camera up to the suction mount and putting it on the bike but after testing that sucker, no pun intended, out I am no longer worried. Wow it really holds on.! I think I will get a tether for it anyways just cause it will make me feel better. cant wait to try it out and post some videos when i get back from the dragon in August.
here is a pic of the stuff I got. AWSOMENESS!!