Go Pro Camera's

[slackass]

Thinking of picking up a go pro camera for the airplane. Many models to choose from. Looking for suggestions on cameras and mounts. Thanks all!

[mongo]

I like the stock adhesive mount.

[SC3CM]

The mounts are nice, but the lack of remote is tough to get outside shots. You end up with a TON of extra video and it takes time to chop it up into something worth looking at. If I had to do it over again I would get the Drift I think. The Go Pro is durable though, so if you don't mind the editing, it would be a good camera to put in a spot where it's going to get beat up a bit, like under the tail, or on the gear.

[cubdriver2]

The mounts are nice, but the lack of remote is tough to get outside shots. You end up with a TON of extra video and it takes time to chop it up into something worth looking at. If I had to do it over again I would get the Drift I think. The Go Pro is durable though, so if you don't mind the editing, it would be a good camera to put in a spot where it's going to get beat up a bit, like under the tail, or on the gear.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GoPro-HD-HER...item1c28a18b1a

Glenn

[cubflier]

The Gopro has an optional remote.

Jerry

[SteveE]

Go Pro has a remote attachment that can now operate up to 50 cameras at once. It's the wifi remote. $100. If you watch the flyin shows, the Go
Pros are used extensively.

[SC3CM]

The Gopro has an optional remote.

Jerry

Well I guess I know what I'll be buying next!


Rene

[DarrenLucke]

I've recently picked up a Go Pro Hero 2 with the remote - have to find the correct quality settings and mount location / type but it's pretty amazing thus far.

[aktango58]

Go Pro has a remote attachment that can now operate up to 50 cameras at once. It's the wifi remote. $100. If you watch the flyin shows, the Go
Pros are used extensively.

WIfeFIne

asking the wife to sit on my strut and push the on off button is not my idea of handy


But think you guys for the reports... some day I shall add it to the collection.

[SJ]

I watched some gopro2 video shot by the Koonis brothers on their laptop at the RAF summit this week. Amazing stuff for the price.

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[Tom]

I watched some gopro2 video shot by the Koonis brothers on their laptop at the RAF summit this week. Amazing stuff for the price.

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Just opened a late father's gift box. You guessed it! GoPro HD Hero2!!!!! I am anxious to try it out. I will have to do plenty of reading since I know nothing about these units.

Tom

[8GCBC]

I have (2) GoPros now! Using Wifi and having a great time! Tip: I need a fast CPU to edit and play 1080 res.

(They are great for surfing, was at Ala Mo and Kaiser's yesterday (1-2'). Used the head strap and Wifi in the break!)

(BTW: Kelly Slater is on the GoPro Team!)

[HaraldH]

We've got 4 GoPro Hero cameras in our ownership group. Very pleased with the cameras despite (our) lack of remotes.

As far as the 1080 footage requiring a fast cpu to edit.... The trick is to transcode the raw files into a format that requres less horse power to edit. On a mac you can use "apple intermediar codec", on windows a straight dv codec

[8GCBC]

We've got 4 GoPro Hero cameras in our ownership group. Very pleased with the cameras despite (our) lack of remotes.

As far as the 1080 footage requiring a fast cpu to edit.... The trick is to transcode the raw files into a format that requres less horse power to edit. On a mac you can use "apple intermediar codec", on windows a straight dv codec

Thank you for the information regarding translation format! I have a really old Windows laptop.

[8GCBC]

(Mahalo) Thank you HaroldH:

Me at Kaiser's with GoPro....

2012.07.01.Kaiser.jpg

[cubflier]

The lack of exposure control on the cameras is a big minus. It would be so simple for them to code their firmware to have an airplane mode that would knock the exposure settings on the shutter side down a few stops and then you would have an "airplane mode" that would kill the prop artifact.

Jerry

[fobjob]

The Hero model has a jack which provides lower (600 line)resolution analog video(but with 16:9 aspect ratio) to downlink on a microwave transmitter...(usually for video equipped r/c model airplanes.....)No other camera has this feature, that I know of...
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OK, so YOU don't need that....

[Henny]

Lots of good info in this thread. Lengthy, but very educational.

http://www.supercub.org/forum/showth...ts-perspective

[Redman]

to have an airplane mode that would knock the exposure settings on the shutter side down a few stops and then you would have an "airplane mode" that would kill the prop artifact

Custom fitting a filter to the case will almost eliminate the prop artifact. Go-Pro is sure is a lot of bang for the buck. We've been very happy with ours.

We shot this video using GO-Pro hero and Go-Pro 2.

http://youtu.be/SnPmqf3p9kI?hd=1

[SJ]

Custom fitting a filter to the case will almost eliminate the prop artifact. Go-Pro is sure is a lot of bang for the buck. We've been very happy with ours.

We shot this video using GO-Pro hero and Go-Pro 2.

http://youtu.be/SnPmqf3p9kI?hd=1

Very nice...

[cubflier]

Custom fitting a filter to the case will almost eliminate the prop artifact. Go-Pro is sure is a lot of bang for the buck. We've been very happy with ours.

We shot this video using GO-Pro hero and Go-Pro 2.

http://youtu.be/SnPmqf3p9kI?hd=1

Very nice video. I can see two cameras (different types) being used but on the shots from other airplane looking back at the Waco I would not have guessed GoPro. Just curious which ND you used and how you custom fit it.

Jerry

[8GCBC]

I used Adobe Premiere Elements 10 to edit "1080 30 fps" time slices from a GoPro Hero 2, Wifi video:

Saturday 30-JUN, 11:00 HST
Honolulu, Hawaii
Solar declination is 22.97 degress North (Sun blazing over head)
Sky condition partly cloudy
Air Temperature 85F, water 78F
Ocean state 1-3 beaufort scale with light trades.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcaOhotNVo8