Mike D.
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Looking for a decent enough helmet cam without spending a lottery-winning's worth on a GoPro...
Any ideas?![Thinking face :thinking: 🤔](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f914.png)
Any ideas?
![Thinking face :thinking: 🤔](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f914.png)
They are all, without exception, rubbish.So, you're saying anything less than the price of a GoPro isn't worth it because... what?
Looking for a decent enough helmet cam without spending a lottery-winning's worth on a GoPro...
Any ideas?![]()
Ah. Even more expensive than a GoPro , then.
Thanks for @Mikerb for a comprehensive statement to add. You may also want to purchase additional batteries from Ebay. Telesin batteries have proven to be good and the charging station is good. You can charge 3 batteries at a time.I have used Gopro for years...even before they released their first HD model. I have no doubt there are a few action cams that have been released over the last 3 or 4 years that compete pretty well with Gopro but I have never seen one that persuaded me to change. If they are good in terms of quality they are the same price or more than a Gopro!
If you want to record video of mtb video stabilisation is a must and a headcam is not the ideal POV/mount. I have tried many different mounts and decided that if I am wearing a full face helmet then chin mount is by far the best. If I am wearing open face then a chest mount is best.
Equally important if your ambition is to capture your mtb exploits, is to come to terms with the fact that you need to buy and learn to use a video editing suite. It is not difficult or necessarilly expensive and in time editing your own footage becomes as enjoyable as shooting it in the first place. You also need a pretty well specced PC to edit HD video.
I am currently using the Hero 7 Black and it spends most of its time in sea water ( Windsurfing) but occasionally for MTB if I am riding a new area etc. I saw no benefit in changing to later models when they were released.
Be aware there is a lot of hype as far as HD video is concerned. I video the vast majority of time at 2.7k and 50 frames persecond. You will see a lot of hype about 4k etc. Well first of all you need really good light for 4k and preferably with the camero on a tripod rather than a moving mount.........video files are huge......and a lot of PCs and video editing suites will struggle to deal with the codec used for 4k. MTB is often quite a difficult environment for video with rapidly changing light conditions and a lot of "scenery" that does not provide good focus. At the end of the day the highest definition viewer you are likely to use is a HD TV most of which are 1080p. Summary, dont be fooled by less than useful features!!
If you want to keep costs down I would suggest going second hand for any Gopro from Hero 6 upwards, get a chesty harness ( chinese import on ebay is the same as the Gopro one for a fraction of the price) and a chin strap if you use a full face...again dirt cheap on ebay.
I actually made my own chesty from a part of a Gopro dog harness!!
Agree 100% I use a GoPro Hero7 Black with chest harness and external battery that goes for hours. Video capture at 1080p, 50fps. I built a high spec desktop and use the excellent free video editor Shotcut to produce finished H.264 videos.I have used Gopro for years...even before they released their first HD model. I have no doubt there are a few action cams that have been released over the last 3 or 4 years that compete pretty well with Gopro but I have never seen one that persuaded me to change. If they are good in terms of quality they are the same price or more than a Gopro!
If you want to record video of mtb video stabilisation is a must and a headcam is not the ideal POV/mount. I have tried many different mounts and decided that if I am wearing a full face helmet then chin mount is by far the best. If I am wearing open face then a chest mount is best.
Equally important if your ambition is to capture your mtb exploits, is to come to terms with the fact that you need to buy and learn to use a video editing suite. It is not difficult or necessarilly expensive and in time editing your own footage becomes as enjoyable as shooting it in the first place. You also need a pretty well specced PC to edit HD video.
I am currently using the Hero 7 Black and it spends most of its time in sea water ( Windsurfing) but occasionally for MTB if I am riding a new area etc. I saw no benefit in changing to later models when they were released.
Be aware there is a lot of hype as far as HD video is concerned. I video the vast majority of time at 2.7k and 50 frames persecond. You will see a lot of hype about 4k etc. Well first of all you need really good light for 4k and preferably with the camero on a tripod rather than a moving mount.........video files are huge......and a lot of PCs and video editing suites will struggle to deal with the codec used for 4k. MTB is often quite a difficult environment for video with rapidly changing light conditions and a lot of "scenery" that does not provide good focus. At the end of the day the highest definition viewer you are likely to use is a HD TV most of which are 1080p. Summary, dont be fooled by less than useful features!!
If you want to keep costs down I would suggest going second hand for any Gopro from Hero 6 upwards, get a chesty harness ( chinese import on ebay is the same as the Gopro one for a fraction of the price) and a chin strap if you use a full face...again dirt cheap on ebay.
I actually made my own chesty from a part of a Gopro dog harness!!
To avoid confusion for those new to HD video..............H264 is a long established CODEC and used by virtualy every action cam to encode a datastream from the sensor to the Sd card. Most video editor suites recognise H264 and are easilly able to decode it to produce a finished video usually as a MP4 file ( MPEG) or sometimes as a Video for Windows file. H264 encoding does however result in very large files so more recently the HEVC codec was introduced to deal with high resolution and/or high frame per second video. HEVC has the benefit of producing comparatively smaller files albeit any ultra HD setting such as 4k will result in large files regardless. The downside is that not every video editing suite can deal with HEVC accurately and in any case most will resort to creating SD Proxy files when presented to UHD files, in order to carry out editing. Gopro tells you which of the two Codecs it uses for each resolution you choose. Personally I avoid HEVC which is why the highest resolution I use is 2.7k on the Gopro.Agree 100% I use a GoPro Hero7 Black with chest harness and external battery that goes for hours. Video capture at 1080p, 50fps. I built a high spec desktop and use the excellent free video editor Shotcut to produce finished H.264 videos.
have you read the Trust pilot reviews?!!!! Several saying the website is a scam and they never recieved their cameras!!Anyone familiar with these? Good specs in comparison to the go pro at a fraction of the price
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