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I saw these on your website. Interesting.

How do they work on helmet or on a mount near the head-rests. How did the folks at the Dragon mount them up?

Does it include any type of software for control/editing or is it a simple transfer to your computer and tool of choice.

I might be interesting, if the pricing is aggressive. :smilewinkgrin:

Thanks,
Don Suiter
Colorado - MINI5280

 

Same here.......price would need to be good.

 

hey ralph,
these things are crazy! very small and the resolution is awesome. i don't suppose you could get mikey to upload my dragon vid (i think he knew i'd be interested in these:crazy.....it might help sell some of these things too:yesnod:
see ya tomorrow
tim

 

Ralph, updates on this? Anyone have real pictures of this mounted in MINI?

Sample videos?

opcorn:

 

hey don!
i'll send ya a copy of my dragon video when i get it
unfortunately, i am not the camera owner....who graciously allowed it to be mounted on fi.

 

Randy (M7) has one- you can see it [ame="http://www.motoringunderground.com/forum/showpost.php?p=406952&postcount=978"]here[/ame]...

Killboy (Dragon fame) has several videos recorded on his Vimeo page

Videos are saved in AVI format...

I saw their booth at SEMA and they have a mount for just about anything you can think of (anything!). (I also have a good interview w/ their Rep. but never got around to editing it.) Personally, I think they live up to the hype.

www.goprocamera.com

(wow- all that from memory!)

 

I played with Darryl Killboy's Go Pro when we went to Jamaica in January. It is really sweet! It took really great still pictures as well as movies. He took some cool underwater footage we we when scuba diving. I want a wide angle one really bad. The only drawback might be that it has no viewfinder, but you quickly get used to aiming without one.

All these still photos were taken with a Go Pro:
Jamaica - Jan 14, 2008 - a set on Flickr

Jamaica - Jan.8, 2009 - a set on Flickr

 

So what's the latest?

 

Mol,

Thanks those are some crisp pictures in Jamaica. Looks like a nice trip, too.

Any more input on this setup, pricing. etc.... opcorn:

Don

 

Ralphy's off today--still licking his wounds after a wee shunt in his Evo yesterday. He's okay (surprisingly cool for a car guy who just tagged his car), the car needs some love, so he'll be back tomorrow. We're looking to do pretty agressive pricing on these so we can buy at a good level, but not have a billion cameras in stock. We'll post soon...

 

Ouch - Glad he's ok - Eric - I will be shooting you an email re: some upcoming work on my car.
Mendra

 

Was he on-track or on the street?

Glad he is ok and hope the car is fixable....... :yikes:

 

Sorry to hear the car took a shunt. Ralph is ok?

I will keep an eye on the thread and see where you go with group buy pricing. :smile5:

The wide looks like a good option for a headrest mount on the passenger side in the R56.

Don

 

I just got one of these for work. The camera is awesome. I'm using the wide version. The video below was made using the camera mounted in two spots with the suction mount. I had it just in front of the fuel door and on the upper corner of the windshield on the right side. The cockpit view is a different camera on a CruiseCam mount.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClKcYWEUu7g"]YouTube - MINIBee at BMW CCA Autocross #3 - May 17, 2009[/ame]

 

Nicely done. How much SD card did you use up on these runs?

Great clarity and editing, you merged 3 or 4 different sessions?

Don

 

Ralph, your back and well? Car going to be ok, too?

 

Thanks for the compliment. I had two camera mounts and the video was made from two different runs. The GoPro Hero was mounted on the driver's side, just in front of the fuel door for one run and then again at the top of the windshield on the passenger side for a later run. The cockpit camera was on a CruiseCam mount and the camera was a Canon Powershot SX1 IS.

I had a 4GB SD card in the GoPro and had a total of 8 runs on the card with plenty of room to spare. Each run took about four minutes of video (actual runs were just over 60 seconds) because I turned it on while waiting in the grid before going to the starting line.

I put it all together in Final Cut Pro.