Some vids i shot with the GoPro Hero HD

[Dupo]

Still trying to tweak this thing to get better video quality. I dont know if its the sun, vibration or what but one i get good another gets kinda crappy.

[youtube:3kha2kof]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bumBRHZ_ILE[/youtube:3kha2kof]

The sun was putting a beating on the camera lens --
[youtube:3kha2kof]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteS48Gh1c8[/youtube:3kha2kof]

Yea, my ugly mug -
[youtube:3kha2kof]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfvw9EGFw1c[/youtube:3kha2kof]

[Colton74442]

Happy six years Dupo! Great site and vids. Makes me wanna rush out and get riding today.

[Water Warrior 2]

You have a very nice area to ride around in. Maybe one day I will get to your neck of the woods on a trip.
The camera does a fine job compensating for the shadows and bright sunshine in the 2nd vid. I doubt you will get better footage unless there are really big $ spent on a camera. Thanks for sharing your countryside.

[mrlmd1]

I love those roads. I have a lot of them around where I live too. The only thing is I'm constantly watching for some critter to dash out of the bushes and trees in front of me - either a deer, a wild pig or boar, coyote, armadillo (they go slow, usually a mama and 4 babies in tow), or a turtle or alligator on the road, or a bunch of vultures eating road kill.
And, no ATGATT, our trusty admin, owner of us all? At least you could have put on the armored jacket for the video (J/K, LOL).
Those are quality vids, nothing wrong with the camera or the sun. What do you have the camera mounted on, the fork or crash bar? Mine is usually mounted on the mounting bar to the windshield, sometimes on the mirror stalk.
Do you think the quality is just as good with those HD keychain cameras you got? Can the GoPro can take a larger memory card?

[Dupo]

Camera is mounted on the tank with a suction cup for all 3 vids. I have to get a bar attachment so i can put it elsewhere on the bike. The GP will take any size card. They hd keychain only goes up to 8gb.

I haven't even tried that HD keychain yet. The thing that sucks with that is the wind noise.

And no, i don't do ATGATT. That was even a treat for me to wear the non DOT german helmet. Only reason was to keep the sun off my face. I sweat profusely, so wearing more than i need beyond jeans, is a good thing. otherwise i would be soaked from head to toe in sweat. That and i just choose not to suit up.

[alanmcorcoran]

I like the content of the second one a lot better (Swamp Creek) than the first. The reality is, video of "regular" riding, get's old kind of fast. I think to make an interesting video you have to mix up the footage - use some from the bike mounted cam, some of someone shooting you from a car perhaps, and... a couple of helicopter shots wouldn't hurt!

Also I'd like to see the Swamp Creek one set to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries...

[alantf]

Also I'd like to see the Swamp Creek one set to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries...

Naw.......... That tune's just for Hueys.. :)

[mrlmd1]

That's got to be a helluva suction cup. You're not worried it'll blow off in the wind?
There's no vibration at all where you have it mounted and the view is pretty good.
The other place I've mounted a camera is to the short stalk on the front marker light.

[blaine]

Love the videos.Beautiful country side in the second clip. :) :cool:

[Dupo]

The suction cup is very heavy duty. Consists of a button to press it against the surface and then a lock that pulls it up creating a vacuum that sticks it like glue. I've seen some vids where they suction cup to the outer windshields of drag cars at local strips. If they can handle 100+mph and that kind of vibration .. they should be ok on the bike.

[Dupo]

Its too bad i cannot capture the large creek that runs along the road in vid #2. The road was made to follow the creeks path. There are two man made dams (a third and fourth were destroyed years ago, floods), huge boulders the size of dump trucks, trails to the creek where people go swimming/fishing/hanging out. It is the site of a very old boy scout camp that dates back probably close 100 years. They used to use the creek and lakes for summer camps that are long gone (you can still find chimneys in the woods that have no cabins). Theres an abandoned house along that road that begs investigation. There are also tiny cabins built along there (about 8 of them) that hang over the creek that you can literally sit on the small porch and drop a fishing line into the creek. There are a few homes, some of which the only access to are walking bridges acrosss the creek. How the hell they moved their house contents over a walking bridge is beyond me lol.

[alanmcorcoran]

That does it. We need to get Dupo a chopper. No, not that kind! I mean the kind where he can swoop in over the water or hover outside your window in "stealth mode." I've heard they're available as kits and he seems to be handy with tools...

[Water Warrior 2]

I'm sure the fellows in Area 51 would lend us some of their toys to do stealth vids. :lol: :lol:

[mrlmd1]

Get him on of those radio controlled choppers like Danny Lightning had, or one of those mini ones from Brookstone and the like, and he can put his keychain camera on it to snoop around.

Dupo - do you wet the suction cup for a tighter more secure stick or do you use it dry?

[Dupo]

Also I'd like to see the Swamp Creek one set to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries...

Naw.......... That tune's just for Hueys.. :)

BFV :rawk:

[Dupo]

Ok somewhere i missed the correlation between what i was talking about and spy cams and helicopters lol.

mrlmd1 - dry.

[mrlmd1]

That's called free association and AC started this one. A wandering mind, full of imaginative ideas :??: :??: :cry:

[Water Warrior 2]

Free association you say. Is that like a hooker and free samples ? Okay, now you know what and where my mind is today. :lol:

[mrlmd1]

Not getting much lately? Time to ride I mean, (right).

See how this works?

[alanmcorcoran]

If you had a helicopter you could video the creek (and yerself) from the air to cut in to the on-frame mounted video.

[mrlmd1]

It would be better maybe if someone went out there with him and videoed him riding that road. Any volunteers?

[Dupo]

Actually alan, i could wait till fall and just turn the camera to the right and film most of the creek aside of the road.

Not so sure a heli would be feasible in the woods lol.

[cayuse]

sometimes I think a tank mount with a swivel head would be great. set up a fair bit of drag so the camera angle doesn't drift and then you could point it in various directions while you ride.

[cayuse]

sometimes I think a tank mount with a swivel head would be great. set up a fair bit of drag so the camera angle doesn't drift and then you could point it in various directions while you ride.

[Water Warrior 2]

I am sure somebody sells them if you have the $.

[cayuse]

buying stuff like that just takes all the fun out of it!

[alanmcorcoran]

I happened upon a film shoot in process recently when I went on a Cook's Corner run. I didn't see the whole rig, but basically there was a guy in the back of a pickup with a tripod mounted camera in the bed, tailgate was down and he might've even been sitting with his legs dangling over the side. The pickup driver paced the the motorcycle. They weren't going too fast when I passed them but I think they had slowed down to pull over and let me by. The camera looked pretty spiffy - not sure how it handles things like bumps, but, there aren't many on that road.

[Water Warrior 2]

Many modern cameras have IS, Image Stabilization. They can take a fair bit of joshling around and still perform nicely.

[cayuse]

My Playsport has IS which is noticeably effective for handheld operation, but can't quite deal with my thumper's oscillations in the current mounting configuration. I'm going to try a softer mount. Looking forward to your results today, WW.

[Water Warrior 2]

Results were not great. Need some fine tuning to reduce the vibs from the road. Should not be difficult.