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Bancroft Ontario, Canada | Hi folks...got a Hero 3 silver addition for Christmas....where is the best place to mount this camera on the VV....maybe a helmet mount is better???....thanks for all your thoughts
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Conneaut, OH | I was thinking about putting a stick on mount on the forks |
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Central Wisconsin | I had best results mounting the pro hero on my helmet, you may look a bit like a Unicorn but hey it works. Plus you have the mobility of recording when turning your head. I tried in on the dash and had too much vibration. |
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, IA | saw guy that mounted it to front tip over |
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| We mount ours on a ram ball on the bars. Makes it so we can change positions quickly. My girl has all the remote stuff highly recommend the phone app for aiming. Works very well. Enjoy! |
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | Thomas - 2012-12-29 7:50 AM I had best results mounting the pro hero on my helmet, you may look a bit like a Unicorn but hey it works. Plus you have the mobility of recording when turning your head. I tried in on the dash and had too much vibration. I agree - helmet is best. I tried a bunch of other things that didn't work as well. Here is an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D4-sQrXLtE |
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | Thomas - 2012-12-29 7:50 AM Plus you have the mobility of recording when turning your head. Here's a short example of "recording when turning your head" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNZhwp8SfdU |
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Vineland, NJ United States | where did you get those auxillary mirrors on your vision? |
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Central Wisconsin | donetracey - 2012-12-29 2:20 PMThomas - 2012-12-29 7:50 AM Plus you have the mobility of recording when turning your head. Here's a short example of "recording when turning your head" ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNZhwp8SfdU The Mountain Thieve and Whiskey Jacks were very entertaining. You demonstrated quite well the mobility and convenience of having the ProHero mounted to helmet. Though I do find the ProHero a bit of a pain trying to figure out what mode I'm in and if it's recording, maybe the newer ones are easier to figure out.
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| we have mounted to bed post or we move it to shower wall |
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Duanesburg N.Y. | The aux mirrors interest me the most, where do you get those?? |
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | Eric - 2012-12-30 5:39 AM The aux mirrors interest me the most, where do you get those?? Had 'em so long I forgot where I go them. Check out this : http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CD0QtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfI4HZRLMztY&ei=45PgULj_FMqAiwL3hYDgCQ&usg=AFQjCNHVueqc8zXJBC35gcC8EKYXXMjSzQ&sig2=aPwHcNiWzMTHrnv8at8Ztg&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.cGE |
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | Allaire5 - 2012-12-30 5:02 PM How did you attatch the mirrors Easily. Follow the instructions. That is NOT a consideration ... they are solid and have NEVER been a problem. |
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Denver, Iowa | I've mounted mine to my helmet pointing forward or backward, but it's too much wind noise over about 35 mph for me. I want to hear the bike more. It was OK riding up Pikes Peak or through Rocky Mountain National Park, just because the speed limit is so slow, and I can hear myself talking to my wife on her bike over the Scala radio. She likes for me to tell her what gear I'm in going around tight corners, if there is gravel on the road, watch the deer in the ditch on your right, etc. And riding in the rain... you hear every raindrop hit the camera. But at higher speeds, it is windy, even with the windshield up. (I do have the Ness windshield though, not a tall Victory windshield. That may make a big difference.)
The camera case with the soild back door is very waterproof. In northern Minnesota, I mounted my GoPro to the handle my oar of my canoe and stuck it underwater. With the super-clear waters in northern Minnesota, I could see 12 feet or so underwater. I could see every fish, weed, or rock within several feet. I've also mounted it in three differnent places on my Sea Doo HX. Even when it's mounted on the nose of the Sea Doo, and I pile through a bunch of big waves of water, it has never been wet inside the housing with the solid door. And that wasn't with the dive-housing that GoPro offers... that was the regular housing. So it is very waterproof.
I've suction-cupped mine to the aluminum cowl cover on several occasions, but it's still windy... even with the solid back door. What is nice about this is you can mount it on either side above the mirror, and you can easily turn it off or on while riding. You have to either set the cruise, or pull in the clutch quickly so you can let go of the throttle to turn on the camera with your right hand (just letting go of the throttle to turn on the camera tends to bottle-neck up the other riders/traffic behind you, I've discovered). Works nice if you want to shut it off during a boring section of road, but turn it on before you ride over the Mackinac Bridge or something to that effect. A tip... think about what side to mount it on before you take the ride. There are times when we've mounted it on the left side and got a decent view from the centerline of the road, but the right side had a great view of the 1000+ foot drop off from the side of the road... like descending Mt. Evans. And the suction cup works awesome... if you take the time to prepare a clean surface to mount it to. We mount it to the interior of a dirt late model stock car beside the driver, and it has never failed to stick... even with a ton of mud bouncing off of the protective tear-off that I put over it, it still stayed in place. They make tethers for it, but I've never used it.
I've got a mount underneath the front of the bike pointing at the front tire, but watching the video of the road going by only a few inches away from the camera makes the people who watch it start to get nauseated. Plus, when you have the bike really layed over in the corner and the camera drags on the concrete, it really messes up the housing (there's $40)!
I put a mount underneath the taillight and point the camera forward (get good view of belt drive and contact patch of rear tire) or backward (view of my wife chasing me with her XC), but it's too low for a good view of the surroundings... lots of exhaust noise too... but still a good view of corners where you may be running about double the speed limit or so. It's not as nauseating to watch as the aforementioned 'looking forward pointing at the front tire'.
I usually mount my camera under the front headlight on one of the aluminum tangs off to the side of the headlight. I mounted it directly to the underside of the headlight once, but the front suspension collapses enough on hard braking or rough bumps that the fender may hit the camera and adjust the field of view for you (wasted footage on that ride!). I mount it off to the side and it gives enough clearance between the fender and the camera, but remember to set the camera to the upside-down setting in the menu. This view looks really cool in the corners because the camera is closer to the road (but not too close), and you get a good view of the front suspension working under braking, acceleration, and cornering situations... if that's what you like.
We've stuck the suction-cup mount to the face of the tach, and had the camera pointing through the windshield. It was a lot less wind noise, but I heard every rattle on the bike that I never knew I had! And the bugs caked the windshield and not the camera. The lense will focus on the road ahead on not the bug guts on the windshield. I used too many extensions to get the camera to peek over the cowl, and it vibrated a little bit.
We've mounted the camera to the forged bars on my wife's XC with the suction cup. Remember to mount it on the side that you believe may have a better view. We've mounted it with the suction cup to the top of her trunk. I kinda like this view because I can see how she handles her bike in certain situations, but you don't get a view of whats directly ahead... just the periphial view... which is where many of the good views are at!
Seriously think about getting the LCD backpack for $80. I've lost hours of footage because I didn't realize what the periphial view of the camera was in certain situations, and the results were poor. With the backpack, you can take a short 10 second video, and quickly review it to know what the camera sees before you ride.
I've had the original Hero GoPro for a couple of years, but I just purchased the Black 3 a couple of months ago. I'm looking forward to the wifi remote and the app on my phone, so I can see what the camera is looking at live on my phone, and I won't need the backpack.
Download the Go Pro CineForm Studio to your computer. It's a decent way to edit the videos. tracey does nice work on his videos. He probably can help you with editing more than I can.
I'll go out and see if I can get some pics of the mounting points. It all depends on what you want to look at in your videos. I am getting way too long-winded. There's so much more advice on this one...
Edited by Godspeed 2012-12-31 10:36 AM
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Bancroft Ontario, Canada | Thanks to all for your thoughts and ideas....will try a number of these....looks like a body/helmet mount may be a viable option...thanks again and Happy New Year
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