Hi all,

I bought this for surfing instruction....it is the best tripod for filming you can get IMHO...No need for shaky videos or relying on someone to constantly monitor...the surfer/windsurfer attaches the receiver to their arm and the tripod with the camera on it automatically tracks it...takes a few sessions to sort it out but once that is resolved you can set it up....start filming and leave the wife/hubby or girl/boyfriend or doberman to sit beside it without having to actually monitor it (just for security).

www.soloshot.com

Interested in people's opinions. ...admittedly a tad expensive but I (may) get some money back from doing "professional" video analysis for surfing...in the meantime this will be a tool for both myself and the little tacker to work with to help with the "learning curve".

Understand it wont work well if you are going more than say 500m away but if you are trying to master something then taking off into the wild blue yonder is probably not what you need at that stage.

Of course the GoPRO is also a cheap alternative but nothing beats a professional HD camera (Canon has one for about $850 which uses the same CMOS as the $2K plus cameras).