[Lab] Dreaming about a Hat Cam

[eric.schmidt at rogers.com]

WRT Hat Cams - was recently at BestBuy, and this had me intrigued:

http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/go-pro-gopro-hero-960-high-definition-camera-960/10158517.aspx?path=b3ee7fc6af267271d9e8206b86c865b2en02



http://www.goprocamera.com/products/hd-hero-960-camera.php

I see this thing making it a lot cheaper and easier for people to wind up on 
"America's most wicked faceplants"

cheers,


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From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at tricolour.net>
To: Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com>
Cc: HackLab Discussion <discussion at hacklab.to>; lab <lab at artengine.ca>; 
ORE_bits at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, November 25, 2010 12:57:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Lab] Dreaming about a Hat Cam

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:36:28PM -0500, Darcy Whyte wrote:
> Anybody tried this?

There are a number that are designed to be mounted to bicycle or ski
helmets.  Some are HD.

Finding a competent photographer is surprsingly harder than I would have
thought...

> Dreaming about a Hat
> Cam<http://mambohead.com/2010/11/dreaming-about-a-hat-cam/>
> November 25th, 2010 No
> Comments<http://mambohead.com/2010/11/dreaming-about-a-hat-cam/#respond>
>  Edit <http://mambohead.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=135&action=edit>
> 
> I’ve been working on a model airplane project and I want to make nice videos
> of the planes flying. The challenge is that I can’t seem to fly it and take
> video at the same time easily. The obvious is to get your friends to take
> the shots right?
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQug8GUVOQI
> 
> In this video I’m explaining “Press the button… Now we’re filming…. Now
> press it again… now we’re not filming…”. I think I went over it about 10
> times.
> 
> It’s really hard to get people to take video. In the video above, the first
> guy I tried could not understand how to operate the video camera despite
> explaining it over and over to him. Mind you were each had a plastic cup
> full of rum.
> 
> So anyways, now I’m wondering what sort of video quality I’d get in terms of
> shakiness and staying on subject.
> 
> I’ve also looked at making a camera stabilizer but that seems to need a
> camera operator so I’m still left with the guerrilla recruitment of people
> to take video.
> 
> Here’s another fine example. In this example, I asked the lady to try and
> get the whole bike and myself into the picture. Not only did she fail to do
> that, she managed to give me mouse ears.
> 
>  <http://mambohead.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/100_5306.jpg>

    slainte mhath, RGB

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