Bite, Tongue, or hand?

[PhreeZone 20]

Which is everyones favorite method of taking stills?

I just got a digital camera and I'm starting to assemble a stills package for the camera helmet, but I'm still undecided as to which is better.

Any opinions?

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[AndyMan 7]

I went Tongue, because my wife said I needed exercise. (kidding).

Bite would be a close second.

I don't like 'blow' because I don't think it would have good shot control.

I don't like hand because it requires wires through the jumpsuit. Wireless hand could be dropped, or would require a teather - which raises other issues.

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[jimoke 0]

the difference between tounge and bite how tight your chin is when your locked and loaded. if your chin is secure and tight, pushing with your tounge seems easier. less stress on your jaw,
blow switchs are properly named.
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[dragon2 2]

I have an overbite and after one jump with my new biteswitch I decided that wasn't the best purchase I could've made... This one is NOT going to last very long, the teethmarks are already showing... Next switch for me will be a tongue switch!

I really like the jaw switch Henny Wiggers has, his helmet is custom made for his face otherwise that wouldn't work. Nothing in your mouth this way so it presumably lasts forever... It is home built though.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[vdschoor 0]

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I really like the jaw switch Henny Wiggers has, his helmet is custom made for his face otherwise that wouldn't work. Nothing in your mouth this way so it presumably lasts forever... It is home built though.

Saskia,

Do you have a close up picture of that switch? I'm curious to see how that works..

Iwan

[dragon2 2]

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I really like the jaw switch Henny Wiggers has, his helmet is custom made for his face otherwise that wouldn't work. Nothing in your mouth this way so it presumably lasts forever... It is home built though.

Saskia,

Do you have a close up picture of that switch? I'm curious to see how that works..

Iwan

Hmmm I don't want to mess around with the liner in his helmet, and Henny's in Lake Wales at the moment. When he's back I can ask him, or maybe you can ask him yourself how it works, he built it himself so he knows best (it's not a computer so I know nuthing ).

He's on dropzone as ParaShoot.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[vdschoor 0]

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I really like the jaw switch Henny Wiggers has, his helmet is custom made for his face otherwise that wouldn't work. Nothing in your mouth this way so it presumably lasts forever... It is home built though.

Saskia,

Do you have a close up picture of that switch? I'm curious to see how that works..

Iwan

Hmmm I don't want to mess around with the liner in his helmet, and Henny's in Lake Wales at the moment. When he's back I can ask him, or maybe you can ask him yourself how it works, he built it himself so he knows best (it's not a computer so I know nuthing ).

He's on dropzone as ParaShoot.

Cool.. I'll shoot him a pm.
So he takes a picture how? Opens his mouth and that fires the trigger? I'm confused how else you would operate a switch with your jaw.

Iwan

[dragon2 2]

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I really like the jaw switch Henny Wiggers has, his helmet is custom made for his face otherwise that wouldn't work. Nothing in your mouth this way so it presumably lasts forever... It is home built though.

Saskia,

Do you have a close up picture of that switch? I'm curious to see how that works..

Iwan

Hmmm I don't want to mess around with the liner in his helmet, and Henny's in Lake Wales at the moment. When he's back I can ask him, or maybe you can ask him yourself how it works, he built it himself so he knows best (it's not a computer so I know nuthing ).

He's on dropzone as ParaShoot.

Cool.. I'll shoot him a pm.
So he takes a picture how? Opens his mouth and that fires the trigger? I'm confused how else you would operate a switch with your jaw.

Iwan

If you bite, your jaw muscles get bigger at the top of your jawbone.My very scientific explanation

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[Miami 0]

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I don't like 'blow' because I don't think it would have good shot control.

I felt the same way till I tried one...now blow is the only way I go...

Miami

[diablopilot 2]

Hand is the way I really like, as the switches I build let me *know* when I'm taking a shot. The alow the most precise control over my equipment.


That said for tandems I mostly use a tounge switch for ease of rigging.

Bite switches suck as the "no shoot" position is usually holding your mouth open, a non-nbatural position especialy when you have a full face or chin cup trying to hold it shut.

Blow switches are high maintinence.

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[Canuck 0]

I use a flat top pro and a tongue switch. Bite switches don't work well with full face helmets, and blow switches disrupt the nice rythmic breathing I like in freefall. Go tongue, especially if you are jumping a full face.

Canuck

[nacmacfeegle 0]

"If you bite, your jaw muscles get bigger at the top of your jawbone.My very scientific explanation"

Henny showed me this set up, I was impressed.If you close your jaw, so your teeth are just touching, then clench, the muscle that connects your jaw to your skull flexes outwards.
Try it, put your hand on your cheek and feel the movement.

If I recall correctly, Henny has a plate about the size of a dytter, which acts on a micro switch built into a recess on his custom made helmet. Again, unless the altzheimers is bugging me, I recall his helmet may have been built for him by Andrey Veselov http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?username=AndreyVeselov;, but I'm not 100% on this.

It looks very cool, sounds simple, but I figured the devil would be to set it up 'just right'.

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[dragon2 2]

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"If you bite, your jaw muscles get bigger at the top of your jawbone.My very scientific explanation"

Henny showed me this set up, I was impressed.If you close your jaw, so your teeth are just touching, then clench, the muscle that connects your jaw to your skull flexes outwards.
Try it, put your hand on your cheek and feel the movement.

If I recall correctly, Henny has a plate about the size of a dytter, which acts on a micro switch built into a recess on his custom made helmet. Again, unless the altzheimers is bugging me, I recall his helmet may have been built for him by Andrey Veselov http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?username=AndreyVeselov;, but I'm not 100% on this.

It looks very cool, sounds simple, but I figured the devil would be to set it up 'just right'.

Henny's got 3 helmets set up like this, at least one was made by a Russian (don't know if it was Andrey, I think Henny'd have said if it was since I've met Andrey). He still jumps the first helmet, the 2nd (russian) has a problem he said, the third (dutch) isn't quite finished yet (no visor etc) and he did indeed have some trouble getting the jaw switch to work on that one.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[nacmacfeegle 0]

Okay, I must have seen the first one, I just assumed Andrey was involved in the construction of the second one as he brought the shell with him from Russia.

Thanks for clarifying.

I still like the concept of a cheek switch though.

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[jb092 0]

I started with a bite switch but it wore out very fast. I moved to the bite switch and went through 3 in 1 week. I am now using a blow switch and for 2 years I haven't had a problem. They take a little getting used to but once you do it's great.

What could possibly go wrong?

[videointhesky 0]

When I started doing stills I was using Minolta 7xi 35mm then I added a Pentax 645

The only electronic shutter release was a hand style so I had had a set up where both releases where in my left hand , my thumb would control the 645 , my middle finger would control the 35mm.

Now I ‘m using the 10D & 20D and I use the same shutter release that I did for the Minolta 35mm.

[ripcords 0]

I started with hand, but the threading through the jumpsuit was a drag. Moved to a tongue switch and like that. I tried a bite switch, but could not get used to it. I have never tried a blow switch, so I can't comment on that one.