Follow Cam

Wakeness450 · Posted: May 08, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: Follow Cam

i thought it would be a sweet idea to ride doubles on a cable and have one guy follow cam the other with a waterproof housing. it'd be such a sick shot Cool

sparrow.2 · Posted: May 08, 2007 11:00 am Post subject:

We did that over here and got some great shots! If you can try and screw the housing onto the helmet of the guy doing the filming. Makes things soooo much easier!

If you aren't fussed with picture quality then you could pic up the Oregon Scientific Helmet Cam http://www2.oregonscientific.com/shop/product.asp?cid=20&scid=77&pid=709

The clips you get out of it are definitely useable and great for video analysis to see what's going wrong on a particular trick. The Cam works a treat and I am really glad about it, because it makes seeing what's going wrong so much easier.

Wakeness450 · Posted: May 08, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

isnt there a cheap housing probably for just as much as that helmet cam

Larsen · Ollie Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 75 City: Hannover/Germany

housings are mostly way more expensive than that camera right there. don't expect to find a housing that's any cheaper than what this camera costs. but on the other hand, the oregon cam doesn't deliver good quality (at least IMO), so you might do better with a good cam and a special waterproof housing for this one.

you can see the results in my latest video that you can download from my websites video section (see link below).

I don't think that mounting the camera to a helmet would be such a good idea. saw a video from a friend who used the oregon cam mounted to his helmet and most of the time the viewer was missing the action because he didn't look at what happened and so on. stay with the double line riding with one guy filming. holding the cam might be difficult, but at least you can see what you get.

K'jellman · Posted: Jun 05, 2007 5:45 am Post subject:

Wakeness450, me and a friend rode doubles after a boat and he was filming me. i took a long set, and when i was done and when we were going to look at the footage the tape had been messed up exactly where the footage was Crying or Very sad

follow cam is cool as hell though!

delphi · Faceplant Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 48

hi there larsen, nice comment on the helmet cam... wanted to buy but was scared to because of what you just explained.

by the way, do you know a sandro reinhardt wakeskater. he tells me theres a really good german skater out now. even christian gruener (maker of statement) was raving about him, but i havent seen any footage of him. im so curious to see how this mystery german riders rides. all the cable riding germans i have met so far this year would not stop raving about this guy... i tried looking at your site, but i dont understand german.

help please

bochner · Frontside 180 Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 470 City: Miami

do u think that the oregon scientific cam is good for shooting ur friedns on a normal basis. how bad is the quality. it would kinda cool to get on a tube and film from there with a waterproof camera. right?