Wearing a GoPro

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Anyone ever worn a GoPro to film what they are doing?

Looking for experience good/bad/ugly with filming while you walk about and work.

[porsche4life]

I've worn it for snowboarding. What are you trying to capture? The head strap or the chest strap would be great. The head mount will put it to where it sees what you see and moves with you. Chest strap is more stable and probably less obtrusive but will only capture what is directly ahead of you. I'll try to find some videos to show the difference.

[Flieger]

Speculation is that drilling into the helmet for a Go Pro caused Schumacher's injuries to be much worse as the helmet cracked. Just FYI.

[vash]

it will be really boring.

unless you do something really cool for a living. even then, a full day video would be REALLY boring.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Speculation is that drilling into the helmet for a Go Pro caused Schumacher's injuries to be much worse as the helmet cracked. Just FYI.

I would never drill into a helmet. The make a strap that goes through vent holes, or several different kinds of double sticky mounts, which is what I use.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by vash

it will be really boring.

unless you do something really cool for a living. even then, a full day video would be REALLY boring.

Yup. Even just videoing the runs when I snowboard produces several hours of video I have to wade through for maybe a minute or two of useable video...

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by vash

it will be really boring.

unless you do something really cool for a living. even then, a full day video would be REALLY boring.

That's the thing. I have had several friends, ones who don't even know each other, say I should have my own TV show. Not so much work as life in general.

And yeah, it would have to be edited.

I don't think it would work in the end, would have to be more of The Truman Show than a GoPro but a friend is buying one for me to try it out.

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by vash

it will be really boring.

Yup. It wasn't until I got a GoPro that I realized how boring my life really was.

[Charles Freeborn]

Interested in this too for making educational films of my woodworking techniques. From the research at camera stores I've done, the GP is more intended for medium to long distance filming, and tends to distort (fisheye) the image with closer focus lengths. I was looking at a chest mount sort of set up.
-C

[bell]

I see people walking around disney/universal with them strapped to their chests......ridiculous for that particular application lol

[AFC-911]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Yup. Even just videoing the runs when I snowboard produces several hours of video I have to wade through for maybe a minute or two of useable video...

My professors always said expect to shoot 1 hour of video for about 10 seconds of something worthwhile.

lol. And my friends expected to have an entire music video or sketch shot in 30 minutes. Hahaha, boy were they wrong.


FWIW, I prefer shooting with my Nikon D7000, especially if I'm on a paid gig.

[stealthn]

I specifically got a GoPro supporting helmet with the connector on it for skiing boarding. I have a handlebar mount for my mountain bike, and the same for the luggage bar in my Cayman.

Lots of fun shooting then getting a few good minutes of fun. It takes a while for you to understand how to shoot when it's on you, your feet/skis, other people, etc as you are not looking through a lens.

Experiment and have fun.

Here's what I mean (a test vid)

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Thanks, good stuff. Bob, the shadow skiing was cool!

I think the editing is going to kill the project. Example, 2-3 weeks ago I made a new candy bar. Half of it was stream of consciousness conversation with a friend on the phone while running around buying the ingredients and then there was the process of making the candy bar itself. it was 4 hours that would have to be edited down to 15 minutes or so.

no one's going to do that.