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    Hehe they sure do. Thank you sir. An honour talking to you.
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    Yeah I have no idea how it works but the camera does that. On the previous version the SD mode was simply a crop of the 720p mode, giving it a narrower FOV. How they put more pixels into a narrower field view I cant explain. The 1080p is 110° while the 720p is 135°. I believe the gopro has different FOV in different settings too. Samples attached. Sorry I dont know how to prove they're authentic, youll have to trust me, theyre at the same distance from the fridge. Its all on the vholdr webpage too.
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    Yes, I was referring to 28mm on a fullsize. Only checking horizontal FOV though, might be different vertically. I believe Ricoh DW-6 and Konica-Minolta ZCW-200 are "real" 43mm WA converters, altough the latter is not being made anymore. If any of them works with the Contour, or with any camcorder, I have absolutely no idea. Regarding the DVDs, if you're burning something to be played on a PC of course you can pick the resolution. I was referring to standard tandem DVDs, which is usually to be playable on any DVD-player, hence delievered in SD.
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    I compared the contours 1080 FOV to 28mm eq on a still camera, which I guess is what most or at least a lot of people use for tandems. The contour slightly wider, so it should work. Since everything ends up in SD on the DVD it should be fine to use the wider low res modes too. Cool shots the airplane mount. Just some 3M velcro on the plane and the XV mount? Quality looks good to me with the raynox on it. To get rid of the vignetting it seems you'd have to look into converters for still cameras, there are a few options with 43 mm threads and severeal with 52mm and up. I have no idea if focusing issues would occur though. Or maybe a 37mm single element such as the century would do it? I use a soft forehead helmet so I guess Ill have to bend my neck to get the opening shots anyway.
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    For tandems there's no need for extra WA, however it's an interesting project. Did you manage to find a WA thats not vignetting on the contour? I'm more than happy with how the Contour works out of the box. I glued the original T-rail mount to my helmet and so far, 10 jumps or so it works good. And I honestly dont see the point with the XV mount. It seems to bring down the major advantages of this camera: price, size and weight. The two major downsides I've found with the contour is the really annoying lensflares you get when shooting towards the sun. According to the manufacturers, a UV filter should fix that (so I'm probably gonna spend some more money on it too...) It also produces a loud click when you stop recording as there is a short delay between sliding the switch and the recording stops. So if using it for tandems, you'd want to cut a sec or so at the end of each clip with sound.
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    There's a free firmware for the Canon powershot series of p&s cameras that allows syncronized remote shots with those cameras. You could probably buy two powershots on ebay for the price of one gp. Google Stereo Data Maker if youre interested. /Jonathan
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    This would be one option. /Jonathan
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    The gopro is being frequently used for handcam. People say it's a bit too wide for filming tandem from the outside, even in its narrower mode. I dont know if the contour is being used for outside tandems, but I cant see why it shouldn´t work. At least from groundtesting mine seems to beat or at least match the image quality of my PC-camera, which is still used a lot for filming tandems, at least over here.
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    I dont know a lot about this, but are you sure a shooting 1080p with an additional wide angle would improve image quality over shooting 720p with the lens already on the camera? I've had the same thought as you but from what I've seen most WA converters negatively affect the image quality. There's been discussions about the resolution of wideangles before, number of lines and so on. How many consumer wideangles actually gives justice to 1080p?
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    Thanks, that's interesting. Is it the ZCW-200 converter?
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    Just curious, were these photos taken with the wide angle converter?
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    That's interesting. I suppose that's because of the higher framerate of the CX1? The GX100 should produce better images though? Did you notice any difference in low light performance? The GR series also looks like a great but rather expensive low weight option. Anyone got experience? I've spent some time trying to make a CHDK modded compact jumpable, it might work out in the end but it seems there would be so much less hassle just buying one of the Ricohs. Jonathan
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    Awesome you did that. Thanks a lot. I'm gonna go with the contour. For some reasons it was the only option anyway and it seems like the picture quality is holding up pretty well.
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    Are those taken with the still feature or is it framegrabs? Nice pics btw
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    Never tried one but from what I've seen the image quality is pretty similar to the gopro. Would be interesting to see a freefall comparison between the two though. I believe I've seen them mounted on the same helmet? Discussions on this page so far has mainly been about the standard contour mounts, which obviously needs some modifications. Also wondering if anyone tried to post-stabilize any freefall video taken with these cams, using the imovie feature or similar? The 37mm thread also allows for stuff like ND and polarizing filters, which from what I've read can improve the colours and reduce some of the artefacts this camera suffers from. Again it would be awesome if someone with first hand experience gave their opinion on it before I order one. Anyone? /Jonathan
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    Any hardware store will likely have something similar. Jonathan
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    Is it good enough to use for tandemvideos?
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    Should work with just a couple of tie-straps going through holes in the helmet and holes in the dytter, or the attachment device that came with the dytter. Or is that one of the ideas you didnt like? /Jonathan
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    Is it possible to use the Skylite recording indicator with a gopro? /Jonathan
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    Does anyone know if this has happened to any of the pc-series camcorders?
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    Ricoh's got a new model coming out in december. Interchangeable camera unit(!). Weighs 325 grams lens included. Looks to me like it has all the features necessary for skydiving and takes 5 RAW frames/second. http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/gxr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXS820Ut7lA&feature=channel /Jonathan
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    I'm definitely not a stillcamera expert but it looks like people are talking about different cameras here. According to test's I've read but cannot confirm the G11 has far less problems with noise and artefacts than the G10. Maybe they named them different in Europe and US?
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    A few pretty nice pictures taken with ricoh compacts have been posted on this forum. They weigh about 200grams and according to the ones jumping them, the quality works for tandem, at least in good light conditions. They're pretty fast, have a 24 mm wide angle and you can mod the cable switch to work with a mouthswitch. Try search ricoh. I'm not jumping stills. /Jonathan
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    Wish you had never sold that cameye now huh
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    Wow, that sounds great. Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot! Would be great to hear how it works in other conditions. Of course samples also welcome, whenever you have time. By the way, it shouldnt be too hard to make your own trigger device for it. Check out the remote used for chdk-modded canon compacts. http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/File:Remoterelease1rastercy6.gif The ricoh uses only 1,5V though, right? Otherwise isn't it likely the same remote would work? If you put a 2,5mm jack instead of the switch, you can plug any mouthswitch into it, and wont have to remove the USB all the time, would probably make your USB port last longer. CX2 is on the way too, don't know if it's very different from CX1, but its a little faster, 5pics/sec.