helmet camera

so i was lookin around for a camera to shoot some board footage with n found the oregon scientific action cam
its only $120. weighs half a pound, can be helmet mounted (even comes with helmet mounting hardware), n is supposed to be shock resistant. only shoots up to 640x480 but thats pretty much good enough.

anyone seen these before? they worth a damn? cheap enough that i might just have to get one n find out.
oh, heres another link that shows it mounted on a skate or climbing helmet.

Danimal has one and I have one, they're pretty crappy quality but I imagine if you rode with it all the time it'd be nice to have all those crazy shots you'd never get with a normal camera. But we never use them so we don't get any footage with them. It looks like security camera video.

thanks for the info, you just saved me $120 :)

well, this is the one i'm prolly gonna get, not helmet mountable but with 1280x720 flash memory recording (@ 30fps) for $169, seems worth it. cheap enough that i wouldn't cry all night if i wreck with it, be good for sideline shots, and it looks cool... haha

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Helmet cams don't seem to work too well anyway. there is so much vibration and head turning that it ends up chopy. Learning to ride with a hand held is a good way to get sick footage. Let us know how your new toy works out.

seems like the videos from on board skating vantage point come from regular small video cameras mounted in custom made PVC pipe cases with a handle...and you don't have to worry about breaking your camera...and you can use it as a puck as David has shown us before.

as far as cameras go.... you get what you pay for.

heres what I use..

its an aiptek handheld, you can buy them at target for around $160, they take exceptionally good video... still need to out all my footage together though... :/

and I highly recommend using a wrist mount like I have here, under the glove I is a wrist brace (not the skate kind, but the ACE medical kind), the medical wrist braces are nice because they have an aluminum splint and they're nice to drill through...

I drilled a hole through the aluminum splint and then attatched the removable top of an old camera tri-pod (goodwill), this way your camerajust easily screws on and off, I have a little PVC pipe protector for the top if this filled with mattress foam too. You get reall steady shots with this, and then the glove is just a gardening glove with a gorilla glued UHMV ouck on the bottom, kinda half assed that part, but oh well, nothing too heavy duty needed, I made its own glove becuase it needed to be cuy out to fit over the wrist brace. I even cut a slot through the glove so the brace strap can go through and secure the glove even more.

you have a lot of time on your hands.

but it looks great.

I'm 17, of course I do, haha.

on martin siegrists web site he got a new helmet cam but instead of putting it on his head he strapped it right below his knee i thought that was cool because it would probably get a better shot

that would be an interresting perspective but then again that blickvang camera he's using in that shot is $1000. that would give ya a sweet shot no matter how ya mount it :)

good point haha