GoPro's
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I LOVE my GoPro....I highly recommend everyone own one. They take GREAT videos, the time lapse+video function is awesome.
I use mine all the time. Put 40 gigs of videos and pics from Easter weekend. You can watch on time lapse and see an entire day or night in 2 minutes. Helps you relive an entire day without having to rifle through pics or watch videos that last for ever.
Being able to control the camera from your phone makes it super easy to use as well.
I used it for the birth of our little one as well...turned out GREAT!
See link!
https://youtu.be/FvPkoqAQ-1g
I use mine all the time. Put 40 gigs of videos and pics from Easter weekend. You can watch on time lapse and see an entire day or night in 2 minutes. Helps you relive an entire day without having to rifle through pics or watch videos that last for ever.
Being able to control the camera from your phone makes it super easy to use as well.
I used it for the birth of our little one as well...turned out GREAT!
See link!
https://youtu.be/FvPkoqAQ-1g
I have 3.
Gen 1 (pre HD)
Gen 2, first HD Hero
New one (Silver) it's two years old.
I tend to use the gen2 first HD one the most.
My original one still works great. I don't think it makes too much of a difference.
Gen 1 (pre HD)
Gen 2, first HD Hero
New one (Silver) it's two years old.
I tend to use the gen2 first HD one the most.
My original one still works great. I don't think it makes too much of a difference.
I didn't know the silver had been out that long...that is what I have, works great!
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I coach youth football.
my wife has filed with a HD video camera on a monopod from the sideline. I prefer this as you get steady shots, a wide field of view, and she starts and stops the camera for each play so i end up with a series of 60-80 short video which are easier to share.
there was a coach in our league who wore a go pro in the huddle (this was elementary kids with coach in the huddle). it worked, but the narrow field of view and depth really distorted things and made it less preferable.maybe they have solved these but a few years ago this was the case.
of course, if you don't have someone available to film, its a good solution. also, for certain things, like skydiving or white water rafting, you want that first-person perspective. but i think in most cases traditional is better.
you can get a high quality standard HD camera that records on data cards for about $300.
my wife has filed with a HD video camera on a monopod from the sideline. I prefer this as you get steady shots, a wide field of view, and she starts and stops the camera for each play so i end up with a series of 60-80 short video which are easier to share.
there was a coach in our league who wore a go pro in the huddle (this was elementary kids with coach in the huddle). it worked, but the narrow field of view and depth really distorted things and made it less preferable.maybe they have solved these but a few years ago this was the case.
of course, if you don't have someone available to film, its a good solution. also, for certain things, like skydiving or white water rafting, you want that first-person perspective. but i think in most cases traditional is better.
you can get a high quality standard HD camera that records on data cards for about $300.
For a second I thought you took the GoPro into the delivery room
Wait a sec... you did!
This post was edited on 4/10 10:30 AM by Formerly Rockymtnole
I skimmed it at first.
That's actually really cool and I bet your son will really enjoy seeing that when he's older.
That's actually really cool and I bet your son will really enjoy seeing that when he's older.
I have a feeling he is going to get tired of seeing it...I'm thinking that I'll be watching it every birthday, graduation, wedding day, etc.
and thanks...I'm so happy I followed through with the idea. My wife really was a trooper letting me do it.
Originally posted by RunRonnieRun:
Cool backwards hat for the biggest moment of your life.
Laffed
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This post was edited on 4/10 11:40 AM by PoopandBoogers
Cool backwards hat for the biggest moment of your life.
Laffed
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This post was edited on 4/10 11:40 AM by PoopandBoogers
While not a Gopro, the new, big thing around here for surfing is the Soloshot, a gps tracking mount for a camera, where it follows the subject when moving. The POV vids of surfing just look so cheesy and overdone, this allows a different angle without a cameraman and is used for all action sports that are played in a specific field. Obviously skydiving is out, but if you play football, soccer, surf, etc it's a pretty cool new take on filming yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc7AZWaHm4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc7AZWaHm4o
If you get one you can go a generation back and don't bother getting the black version - that's really just for pros and suckers. Silver is good enough. The new GoPros are really very nice. I was comparing the video from a GP3 my brother had to my GP1 and it was night and day. Add in the preview on the phone, touch screen, and the different field of views, and they are pretty sweet. I'd like to upgrade mine.
The GoPro to me is not a "general camcorder". I wouldn't consider using it for recording kids ballgames unless the camera was mounted somewhere on the kid if you get my drift. Recording from the sideline would turn out much better using something that didn't have a fisheye lense. I know you can make some setting changes to help reduce it but if you have watched a video from say a Samsung Note 4 or an iPhone 6 and compared it to a GoPro, the quality is completely different if the person using the camera is stationary. We took a cruise this year for spring break and people were using all sorts of high quality cameras at the beach and other stuff that was around the same price or less than a GoPro and they had some accessories that gave them similar features.
Holy shite man, that was not exactly what I was expecting when I opened that link.
"No video during delivery" was my wife's only demand
Originally posted by dmm5157:
Holy shite man, that was not exactly what I was expecting when I opened that link.
"No video during delivery" was my wife's only demand
Yeah, I promised her no down the middle shots. I didn't think it was to intrusive.
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I dumped my big older expensive dive camera for a GoPro. It's probably just as good and much smaller and cheaper.
No...she's not that cool. Matter of fact, the way I'm looking these days, I wouldn't want to see myself in my flesh suit.
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