My mate is the Aussie distributor for these helmet cameras called GoPro
They are a pretty sweet little camera comes in a waterproof housing and mounting hardware & everything ready to go.

Last week he gave me a sample of a new wide angle model that will be out here soon to try out. It's really cool with the wide angle you can see the board and sail and it gives you heaps more perspective of what your watching.

There was no waves and there is no exciting footage I was just cruising around to see how the footage came up.
The colours and clarity are so good on my computor and TV, I think youtube just compress it to a lower quality to keep size down, but you can see the angle it gives!

Oh yeah, and my Gybe? well I was just cruising, did a gybe and started cruising back the other way when BANG I was in the water!! I hooked a plastic bag or something on my fins!!! stopped me dead!!

Cant wait to get out in the waves this weekend and get some good footage with it


We have also been jetskiing a bit when there is no wind. this footage is taken on the original not wide angle...

Sweet

Heaps better view then the other ones

How much, Where from?

Fit all Gath helmets or what?

Nice vids, keep them coming. Can't wait to get back on the water after seeing that

What spot this at? What gear you on/windstrength?

Vids like this are why I started and love this sport, the freedom of gliding along

Would like to one day tape my sailing and show mates from my perspective, that'll entice others into the sport

Thumbs up for not starting your post something like "hey, has anyone heard of these such-and-such cameras?"

How much are they?

Can someone remind me how to download the high(er) quality vid from youtube? There was a website or something.

... Dear Santa,

OK, for high quality you add &fmt=18 for MP4, or &fmt=4 for Flash.

I also came across this one, which is pretty cool:



I still like when you can see the rider a bit. The best position would be from behind, over the shoulder (I can't believe I just wrote that). There was a surfing "tubes" video (Search youtube for "my eyes won't dry") I posted a while back where they have the camera hanging off the back of the board, fish eye, and you can see everything. You kind of get that "phantom arm" thing when you can see the rider, feels like you are there.

No Andrew that was jerksking on my old green one!

Ah not sure on the price of these ones, will find out!
That footage from Maui is good, nice to see some sun and wind! I like the wide angle view though becasue you can see arms, legs board and sail and it feels like you are sailing when your watching!

They make some sweet accessories like a suction cup to mount it on the nose of a surf board and some other cool things. I am planning on doing some cool angles like from the mast looking back, from the mast tip looking down etc...
I will use one of those high res video sites once I get some decent footage for sure..
this was just to see what the angle looked like etc..

Maybe try and get a double forward attempt or something decent on film!!!!

I have to say that the VIO POV 1 is pretty good. The quality is excellent, equivalent to DVD quality (720 x 480). I've played footage on my 46' LCD and it looks excellent. So if you want footage for playback on large TVS/wanting to make your own DVDs etc you're better off paying the extra. The VIO i snot cheap though $900, but it's a decent bit of kit. Very sturdy. I had a much lower resolution one before which as someone said is fine for youtube, emailing folk etc, but not really for big tv playback/editting etc

as I said... for high end work wait 9 to 12 months and you will POV footage challenging 35mm film quality. It won't be as cheap as the Go Pro cam though.

i dont like the idea of a square camera on my helmet . sticks up too high and is easily knocked off.

I reckon the bullet type ones are better for helmets

I just uploaded a bit of footage to a better website its kept it in higher resoloution looks heaps better!

windjunky said...

What about this view of Bjorn doing a speed run at Weymouth recently... think it hangs off a pole attached to the back of his harness. (There goes all the broomsticks at Sandy this weekend...!)

http://www.boardseekermag.com/inside_line/nov_04/video/Bjorn_Headcam_run.wmv

Think you need to be a member to see those vids AB?

dont get the wrong one. The "purple helmet cam" is designed for more intimate photography.....