Video Camera who uses one?
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby Lukeyboy » Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:57 am
It seems that the handelbar mount (at least for road bikes) tend to fracture more easily compared to when mounted on BMX/Mountain bikes (I'm guessing vibration due to the lack of tread on bike tires/no suspension combined with the tighting of the lock on the plastic). If you buy another one for your roadbike I'd reccommend using one of the k-edge handle bar mounts or the GoPro rollbar mount (chunkier) attached to the stem.
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby norbs » Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:21 pm
DaveOZ wrote:What would you replace it with Norbs, assuming they don't do the right thing and replace it?
Either the new Contour or that Sony that has just been released.
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Postby DaveOZ » Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:23 pm
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby norbs » Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:35 pm
DaveOZ wrote:The Sony looks very cool and they DO know how to make cameras. I'd be having a good look into the mounts though.
What can you tell me? Their mounts no good?
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby Baalzamon » Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:42 pm
Image speaks well
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Postby DaveOZ » Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:50 pm
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The case itself is excellent, very tough and waterproof.
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby herzog » Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:23 pm
The action cameras (Gopro, contour etc) have a much wider field of view, and deal well with shock and vibration, and rapidly changing light (eg MTB in and out of treecover)
Plus who wants to risk an 800 buck phone on their bars instead of a $200 shock resistant action camera?
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby herzog » Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:27 pm
The Gopro footage was fantastic, the phone video was pretty dreadful.
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby DavidTomic » Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:05 pm
http://www.imging.com.au/
I've had mine on order for over a month now (waiting for the initial stock to arrive), and this afternoon they were finally waiting for me when I got home!
I'm just giving them a quick charge at the moment, then I'll jump on the bike for a short spin so that I can post a couple of sample videos for you.
Stay tuned ...
EDIT: For the sake of reference, here's what the original model looked like. It's a pretty vast improvement IMHO!
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby Baalzamon » Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:26 pm
Can't wait to see, will be quite interesting. Fellow on Bentrideronline had a car all of a sudden reverse into him when he was behind it. Driver ended up doing a runner all caught on camera equipped glasses.DavidTomic wrote:For those of you who are familiar with the Imging camera equipped glasses (they've been mentioned in this thread a few times), they've just released a new model which looks a whole lot slicker than the original.
I've had mine on order for over a month now (waiting for the initial stock to arrive), and this afternoon they were finally waiting for me when I got home!
I'm just giving them a quick charge at the moment, then I'll jump on the bike for a short spin so that I can post a couple of sample videos for you.
Stay tuned ...
Could be quite the nice setup. Camera integrated glasses along with Go Pro Hero 2 rear facing. Kinda look like Oakley styled as well. Wouldn't suprise me if the frame is an Oakley as it's supplied with an Oakley case..
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby norbs » Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:59 pm
DaveOZ wrote:I've no idea, just after your experience with the GoPro mount.
Good news on that front. This from the latest email...
Hi Todd,
We can replace everything (camera, battery, housing, and handlebar/seatpost mount) except for the SD card.
I just issued the sales order for your replacement items. It should ship out by the end of the day tomorrow and get to you in about a week or so.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Pretty happy with that.
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby Mugglechops » Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:49 pm
Awesome news mate, well done.norbs wrote:DaveOZ wrote:I've no idea, just after your experience with the GoPro mount.
Good news on that front. This from the latest email...
Hi Todd,
We can replace everything (camera, battery, housing, and handlebar/seatpost mount) except for the SD card.
I just issued the sales order for your replacement items. It should ship out by the end of the day tomorrow and get to you in about a week or so.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Pretty happy with that.
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby DavidTomic » Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:16 pm
They fit pretty snugly, they don't wiggle or move around at all once they're on, and they generally seem quite sturdy.
Looking at some of the video, it does seem to pick up some noticeable vibration from the road, but I guess that's probably to be expected?!?
I might have a bit of a play with some video stabilisation software over the weekend and see how that fares.
The FoV is perhaps a little bit narrower than I would have liked in an ideal world. It's definitely not capturing everything that I'm seeing with my own eyes, but I'm honestly not sure haw that compares with other (similar) cameras?
If anybody's got any questions that they'd like to ask, then fire away and I'll see if I'm able to answer them for you.
PS - Video is uploading onto Youtube now, but my connection is painfully slow so it's going to take a little while [I'm stuck on an ADSL1 RIM (AT) 348k upload ]
EDIT: While we wait for the painfully slow Youtube upload, at least we can do a couple of screenshots (click to embiggen):
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby DaveOZ » Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:23 pm
Great news Norbs and good to hear they are looking after their customers.norbs wrote: Good news on that front. This from the latest email...
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby norbs » Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:51 pm
DaveOZ wrote:Great news Norbs and good to hear they are looking after their customers.norbs wrote: Good news on that front. This from the latest email...
Certainly saves me from having a tanty.
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby DavidTomic » Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:21 pm
I was curious to see how well it would work, so I enabled it and let it re-process the video for me.
While it definitely cut down on the vibration a lot, it also added some weird wavy effects to the video (expected, I know), so I thought that I might upload the original again so that people could see and compare both versions.
Problem is that the second (untouched) version has been stuck in "Processing" since last night, so something has obviously crapped itself on that video.
Anyways here's the first upload, which has had the Youtube stabilisation applied to it:
If the second version still hasn't sorted itself out by the morning, I'll try uploading it again so that you can compare the untouched video.
Questions / comments welcome ...
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Re: Video Camera who uses one?
Postby DavidTomic » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:58 am
Thanks ... I thought it was probably something like that, although it's daft that it just sits in processing for so long instead of giving some sort of meaningful error/message (FWIW - It's still "Processing", 48 hours after originally uploading it).Oxford wrote:You have to change the 2nd video, they have checksums they do on all videos to avoid double loading of the same video. It will remain in processing until you find the message telling you the video already exists. Chop a 1 second chunk of the video to make it different. Then upload again.
I've just done as you suggested and started another upload, so I'll post that up for comparison when it's done.
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