Hat Cams

I have an imitation GoPro from Amazon, £50 and it records for an hour and a half. It automatically splits the film up into about 10 mins segments.

I use it to record traffic after a couple of nasty incidents. It is always on. As it is just £50 it is easy to switch cameras after an hour and a half, and just use the other one to record up to a full 3 hour ride.

Interestingly, after using a chest cam and a hat cam, I found the chest cam actually gave the better picture. The camera is a high def 4K one, but I don't record in 4K as the image is picture quality but jumpy, I downgrade the image level to 721 or 1080 to have more frames per second.

This is a still from the camera, taken from a video by my computer, and I think the quality is great, enough to lift a number plate, which was important to me. I wear it every ride, take it in, clear the camera and recharge for the next day. I only download the rather large files if there is something I want to save.


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I have both a go pro and a Muvi - which is the cheaper one from Amazon. It depends on what you want it for. the Go Pro is better for high definition action stuff - if you wanted to record a cross country round or something. But the Muvi os more than sufficient for recording traffic out hacking. I too have found wearing it on the chest is more stable - otherwise the point of view swings as you move your head. But the go pro is a cube shape which would worry me in the event of a fall. the Muvi is much smaller and flatter.
 
Red-1 said:
Interestingly, after using a chest cam and a hat cam, I found the chest cam actually gave the better picture.
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How do you secure it to your chest? I'm looking for something I can clip to a climbing harness without needing a separate harness for the camera. (I'm rather well endowed in the chest area and none of the camera harnesses look like they'd work for me.)
 
I did a lot of research in Septmeber last year. I've got a SOOCOO its an S30 I think but I'd have to check. If you have a look on Youtube theres split videos and its easily comparable to the Go Pros. It also fits their attachments. I paid about £55 inc 14 different attachments for it. I highly recommend the SOOCOOs.
 
Red-1 said:
I have an imitation GoPro from Amazon, £50 and it records for an hour and a half. It automatically splits the film up into about 10 mins segments.

I use it to record traffic after a couple of nasty incidents. It is always on. As it is just £50 it is easy to switch cameras after an hour and a half, and just use the other one to record up to a full 3 hour ride.

Interestingly, after using a chest cam and a hat cam, I found the chest cam actually gave the better picture. The camera is a high def 4K one, but I don't record in 4K as the image is picture quality but jumpy, I downgrade the image level to 721 or 1080 to have more frames per second.

This is a still from the camera, taken from a video by my computer, and I think the quality is great, enough to lift a number plate, which was important to me. I wear it every ride, take it in, clear the camera and recharge for the next day. I only download the rather large files if there is something I want to save.
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That's an excellent quality picture - what is the make of it?
 
My climbing harness would just give me a waist high view of the world, is yours different? I use a chest harness specifically for the go-pro, which I find very unobtrusive (but I don't have the fortunate of being well endowed so don't think about that part). I do find the chest rig view could make me feel a little sea sick watching back sometimes, whereas the head view doesn't. I tried the helmet mount harness whilst on holiday and test rode a fall in it (unintentionally!) and it pinged off as soon as my head hit the floor which was handy but I didn't land straight onto it but onto the side of my helmet instead. I find the muvi hard to keep stable, it wiggles around a bit more.
 
Go-Pro every time. This is from a Hero 5 Black, an includes some footage of it on the headpiece of his bridle between his ears!

[video=youtube_share;WOA_i40u4ZY]https://youtu.be/WOA_i40u4ZY[/video]
 
KatPT said:
My climbing harness would just give me a waist high view of the world, is yours different? I use a chest harness specifically for the go-pro, which I find very unobtrusive (but I don't have the fortunate of being well endowed so don't think about that part). I do find the chest rig view could make me feel a little sea sick watching back sometimes, whereas the head view doesn't. I tried the helmet mount harness whilst on holiday and test rode a fall in it (unintentionally!) and it pinged off as soon as my head hit the floor which was handy but I didn't land straight onto it but onto the side of my helmet instead. I find the muvi hard to keep stable, it wiggles around a bit more.
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It's for sailing, so it's more like a fall arrest harness than a typical climbing harness - straps over shoulders/chest as well as legs/waist. I'm crewing a tall ship trans-Atlantic over summer, so I really want to be able to get video from the top of the mast but it obviously needs to be very flat if it isn't going to get in the way of handling the sails, etc.
 
Pippity said:
It's for sailing, so it's more like a fall arrest harness than a typical climbing harness - straps over shoulders/chest as well as legs/waist. I'm crewing a tall ship trans-Atlantic over summer, so I really want to be able to get video from the top of the mast but it obviously needs to be very flat if it isn't going to get in the way of handling the sails, etc.
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Ah gotcha!
 
Darbs said:
Go-Pro every time. This is from a Hero 5 Black, an includes some footage of it on the headpiece of his bridle between his ears!

[video=youtube_share;WOA_i40u4ZY]https://youtu.be/WOA_i40u4ZY[/video]
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Domino is so lovely with all those spots
 
Darbs said:
Go-Pro every time. This is from a Hero 5 Black, an includes some footage of it on the headpiece of his bridle between his ears!

[video=youtube_share;WOA_i40u4ZY]https://youtu.be/WOA_i40u4ZY[/video]
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Great footage. Very well done, as the camera stayed in the same place throughout. Do they show anywhere how they attached it exactly?
 
Ollison said:
Great footage. Very well done, as the camera stayed in the same place throughout. Do they show anywhere how they attached it exactly?
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The mounting for the footage we took between his ears is shown in the clip, the mount is taped to the headpiece of his bridle. The footage from the helmet was using the headstrap found here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Adjustab...398205&hash=item3f7e04957b:g:DTAAAOSw3v5YtYlQ

It is super secure and didn't slip on the helmet at all.
 
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