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FWIW, the idea has been around for a long, long time (since the day the camera and the phone mated) It was dumb then, dumb now. We had a director on a shoot who insisted his iPhone be used for a shot, we had no housing. I taped and velcro'd it six ways from Sunday on my FTP, fucked around with it in the plane, and when we got down, he was butthurt because it was lousy video, and that was my fault. Except the footage he was paying for, from the EX1, was beautiful and flawless, mounted roughly 2" above his crappy iPhone. Just because something has a lens doesn't make it suitable for all kinds of shooting.

Looks familiar GoPro housing? Seriously tho...can you see a chest mount/mudflap mount altimeter? If this is carbon or other hard material, what are the potential problems for hard openings where the chin is slammed against the chest? How much additional performance do you expect to gain by streamlining these two areas? Pretty cool to see the innovation/experimentation, but do wonder how much the cost/risk vs proposed gains differ.

Really enjoying this app. It has VFS, and it's easy to read. Navigation took a few minutes to figure out, but once I understood how/why you did the nav this way, it's very fast. It's a great tool on an Android tablet as well. Clean graphics, easy to read.

Kenn Walker, Mark Hewitt do some nice work at the Elsinore loft. Dru Poma at Lompoc is very good as well. She fixed my suit a few years back after the medics cut it off. It was pretty ragged, but the work she did, it looks un-altered from new.

Saw several of these at CES, in a wide variety of forms. I found myself asking self, "What kind of fucking idiot would take his iPhone/Droid out as a helmet camera?" A-Compression is for crap B-Shutterspeeds are virtually always high, which means "jello-cam" C-it's an extremely expensive camera to take into "extreme" circumstances for very little gain.

The safire is a good canopy for WS, many people use them.

These drones are all over the show. Alcatel has professional models, and even Verizon is in the game. One of the companies (they're all forgettable with the crap compression) had a beautifully syncronized show of their drones flying patterns. It was so pretty to watch that I went back three times. The drones crashed at least twice in every showing, but the overall show was spectacular. But..all of them in the sub 2000.00 point were crap video, even the models with third party cameras strapped to them. Too much vibration. It'll get better, that's a certainty.

Today is the last day (for me) at CES. Been great seeing a few skydive friends. The show has been the most impressive CES in a long, long time. If the attendance, dollar flow, and tech are any indication of the future (and economy), it's pretty bright. found 14 different "action cams" at the show in addition to the usual suspects. Everyone wants in on the pie, but most of it is low bitrate garbage. Lots of flying drones, all of them with horrid video codecs, mushy pictures, but amazingly well controlled. Tablets and 4K seemed to own this show. And home life access/improvement controls that use the smart phone for proximity measurement and on/off cues. Washer/dryer on the net, so is fridge and stove. Wild year. Google glass ain't so great any more.

It shouldn't be too difficult to find the number of no-pull fatalities and compare to known AAD saves. Finding the number of cutaway pulls with RSL would be difficult to do.

Like this one? https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/270235_4690315249177_872820004_n.jpg

Mine was a 1959 Ford F100 bought at 14. Sold it when I was 26, and have been looking for another one ever since. Hard to forget that first love.

Glad you enjoyed it and found it useful. Seeing all the "lifestyle" cams at CES this year, I'm not sure how I'll do the next one. 14 cameras being launched at this year's show. Between fitness trackers, tablets (nearly 50 new Android-based tabs), 4K products, and "lifestyle" cameras, it's ridiculous. There are now approximately 30 different small-format cameras in the market stream. Even Celestron, Aquos, F.I.T. and Swann have jumped into the "lifestyle/action/POV" camera market.

I like the full face. It's warmer, more quiet, and works well for radio comm when called for. However, I dont' like that students can't see my face, and when training WS I don't like when I can't see theirs. Since the majority of my jumps are coaching jumps, an open face is my most commonly-worn helmet and I encourage WS students to wear open-face.

there have been full-face helmets made with molding to go around larger/older cameras. I suspect they're just not popular. Someone will correct me here, I'm sure, but I believe full-face were originally created for RW and being kicked in the head. It wasn't until recently that RW jumpers started wearing cameras. Other disciplines have begun using full-face, but that's not the original aim. Square 1, Deltagear, Chutingstar all offer lowered snag-risk helmet mounts for some of the cameras, and Cookie has a nice side mount option, Bonehead Revolve has some nice options, and using systems like the RePlay are likely the best options we'll see for a while. How big can the market really be? The cost of tooling up a new helmet is pretty high.

It's about the size of a silver dollar, and thinner than the GoPro. There are at least 10 different action cams being released at the show from various vendors. The "wearable/personal" cam seems to be one of the highlights of the new year. So many pieces of personal tech, it's almost creepy.

Stick still firmly up ass. Cunt is a term of endearment for a great many people. If you don't like it you are free not to use it, but your attempt to belittle those who use it "friendly" is misplaced and unwarranted. And you've had a conversation with the person to whom it's being directed? I have. If having respect for someone, and for their wishes is "having a stick up my ass"...pound that phone pole further in. It's called "standing up for a friend."

Lisa's cards are always fun and appreciated, yet out of respect for a person...can a humorous, yet disrespectful name from the past please be retired? It's just not funny any longer. People do outgrow themselves.

http://gizmodo.com/5973611/a-teeny-tiny-action-cam-with-a-half-decent-sensor-must-be-for-porn and I gotta say...it's impressive for what it is. Footage is ridiculously good, and the low-light samples they provided were reasonable.

In a similar context, 75% of the voters didn't vote "no."

I'll be at CES tomorrow; I'll see if I can learn anything more about GP's service strategy. My guess is that they're overloaded with calls for return. Can you return it to the retailer for a refund/exchange?

The "little white things" that come with the GoPro camera are different than the lanyards that don't come with the GoPro and are sold by third-party vendors. There would be no argument, had the original comment you posted been accurate. It's always hard to hit a constantly moving target.

On a different helmet. The big problem with fullface helmets like that is that you cannot install a cutaway system. Something that should be mandatory on any camera helmet IMO. So especially for a beginner, a freefly-style open helmet with chincup + cutaway for a camerahelmet, especially with the big-ass hook a go-pro is, is the only way to go IMO. This bears repeating. Fucking around with cameras that don't break off (see the video in the Small Camera Incidents thread) has already killed at least one on video, and probably two others that aren't absolutely confirmed. The little white insert in the gopro footing doesn't hold it to the helmet any more or less than the sticky tape. What it does is dampen vibration and lessen the chance of the snap-catch breaking/weakening. Having it in place won't make a whit of difference in an entanglement. There is also the conversation of what kind of jumping one is doing. In RW, there are at least four documented instances of a small format camera being part of an unintentional reserve deployment either in a door or in the air, due to snag on a handle. Some say the appropriate response is to get rid of D ring reserve handles. Smarter ones say "rather than screw around with changing out a D-ring for a pud/soft handle, re-think why you're changing a safer standard to fix an unsafe standard. If you really want a full-face, there are mounts like the Replay low-boy that will break off easily, that have an open point for the camera to escape. The Contour isn't bad either.

Ridiculously jealous.... Very sexy.

https://vimeo.com/29103767 This might work for you. One handed technique used by some wingsuiters.

The difference in quality is much greater than the difference in price. 4K on the GoPro is a bulletpoint. That's about it. You'll see a couple new 4K cameras next week at CES (I'll see what I can shoot while there). Expect several new 4K cameras at NAB in April (at least 3 I'm aware of). Expect the price to drop in half in the next year as the early adopters defray the cost of product dev and gear-up, just like with HD, and with AVCHD to AVC-I. Start studying now on HEVC, and get familiar with MPEG...as said here almost 6 years ago...MPEG has changed up what we can do at all resolutions. Really excited for 4K and what it offers us, when combined with even low grade glass and a medium-sized sensor.