Any of you who have seen my videos from the past few seasons may have noticed that in addition to the helmet cam, I have a camera mounted on the harness.
The mount is a Flytec Universal Camera Bracket that was originally designed for use on hang gliders. One of our local XC experts, Brett Hazlett, discovered that this device could be mounted to a paraglider carabiner as well.
Attached to this bracket was a GoPro Hero 2 - up until I managed to fry it in France in 2013 ('let the smoke out' sort of frying). Following that was a Hero 3+ which unfortunately disappeared from the hill last season.
Given the replacement cost - I figured it was time to test the waters of the Chinese clones.
First up is the SJCAM M20. Ordered in hard to lose red directly from SJCAM with a spare battery.
The form factor reminds me very much of a police body camera and the camera itself is capable of upwards of 2K video (4k with some interpolation).
Tiny? Yep.
Able to do 1080p @ 60 fps? Yep.
Looks like it fits the bill.
The camera arrived just last night - so I have no flying footage as of yet. Unboxing photos will have to do in the near term.
Sample video:
The mount is a Flytec Universal Camera Bracket that was originally designed for use on hang gliders. One of our local XC experts, Brett Hazlett, discovered that this device could be mounted to a paraglider carabiner as well.
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| Flytec Universal Camera Bracket |
Attached to this bracket was a GoPro Hero 2 - up until I managed to fry it in France in 2013 ('let the smoke out' sort of frying). Following that was a Hero 3+ which unfortunately disappeared from the hill last season.
Given the replacement cost - I figured it was time to test the waters of the Chinese clones.
First up is the SJCAM M20. Ordered in hard to lose red directly from SJCAM with a spare battery.
The form factor reminds me very much of a police body camera and the camera itself is capable of upwards of 2K video (4k with some interpolation).
Tiny? Yep.
Able to do 1080p @ 60 fps? Yep.
Looks like it fits the bill.
The camera arrived just last night - so I have no flying footage as of yet. Unboxing photos will have to do in the near term.
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| Package arrives via DHL. DHL emailed with the tracking number and a link to prepay customs fees. If only UPS and CanadaPost could do the same. |
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| Forms pulled. |
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| Box openned. Simple red bubble wrap around camera box. |
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| Camera box exposed. |
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| Camera box removed. |
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| Pulling it apart. |
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| Camera + Accessories. |
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| Manual, stickers, + mounting options. |
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| Camera in waterproof case + charging cable + spare battery (extra $) + cleaning cloth. |
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| Gives you a sense of the camera size. |
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| Rear screen. |
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| Manual with button map. |
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| Manual button map 2. |
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| Camera on riser mount. |
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