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Photo's whilst riding ??

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Farway

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Hi.
Would been keen to hear if anyone has any usefull input on this matter? I want to start using my digital camera whilst riding. It will have to be a left handed operation only (I imagine...) but thick ish gloves and small clumsy "fit in your pocket" camera's could make for interesting times. There has to be some tried and tested tip's about?

I will imagine strapping it to the tank of a vibrating twin will rezemble what my hands feel on a daily basis!
 
Taking photos on the move is difficult. I gave up! (But I admit I do it too rarely to justify a decent camera mount). Now I ride with a compact digital camera on a strap round my neck & stop for landscape shots. For on the move photos I use a video camera and then take a still form the video when I get home using my video editing software.
 
Suggest you get yourself a Drift HD helmet camera, it has remote control that can go on the bars.

Keep you hands on the bars :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tArO2u6wpFc

This clip was taken with the 720HD version, around £120 and I can take stills from the footage, or I think you can set it for stills every few seconds.

Look at Action Cameras web site, they have whole range.

With the helmet mounted camera you don't get all the vibration
 
This is a still taken from a video on the track
 

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Thanks for that. Something I need to look into. The quality of footage is great in comparison to anything strapped to tbike. I'm looking at doing the Royal British Legion's 1000mile/24hr run later the year and time is of the essence but going through Oban and Fort Willam is absolutely stunning and I never get to stop and get a few photo's...birthday's coming up, prese for self I recon!
 
Might want to check out the Replay HD helmet cam. Very small, works well and with the right software you can pull out magnificent stills.
See below:

Helmet Cam:


Extracted Stills:
 

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I've clearly had my head in the sand with regards helmet cams.... they do offer some fantastic still's. I'll need to do some research as I do like the idea of a slightly more streamlined cam oppose to some bulkier units. Thanks guys.
 
Campagman said:
Suggest you get yourself a Drift HD helmet camera, it has remote control that can go on the bars.

Keep you hands on the bars :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tArO2u6wpFc

This clip was taken with the 720HD version, around £120 and I can take stills from the footage, or I think you can set it for stills every few seconds.

Look at Action Cameras web site, they have whole range.

With the helmet mounted camera you don't get all the vibration
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This was a great video. I did post it on ADV Rider in the Stelvio site. Pussies complaining that the Stelvio is not an off road vehicle. You proved them wrong, and the response on ADV rider was very positive.

Props to you.
 
I use the Drift HD, too, strapped to the brake reservoir. Using Windows Live Movie Maker, you can extract "stills". These have a slight distortion, thus: http://motoguzzimackers.com/2013/10/12/spaghetti-rally-2013/

Or you can set the camera to take snapshots at various intervals, which don't have the distortion.

The problem with the Drift is that it's difficult to see when it's switched on and off - the LED is too small and not angled for bike use.
 
I have a lot of still photos that I have taken with a digital camera held in my left hand, with a long strap around my neck. Grab it, point in the general direction, take a shot, hope for the best. It works out more often than I expected. I also have done videos like that, and those turned out.

This is a video that I took with my cell phone mounted to the handlebars. Usually the vibration is an issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDvSyGxtGzA

This is a video taken with a helmet cam. The vibration is not a problem, but this is an older low resolution camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTzuLYwUiTU
 
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