GoPro cameras for tree work

[Bart_]

I custom shaped a styrofoam wedge to go between the side of the chin/mouth protector on the mx helmet and the camera and strategically used precise duct taping only. I added a replaceable lexan cover for the lense to prevent mud scratches when cleaning. Sometimes a freak blob would land and stick and look like boulder when it was 1/8" dia!

Sound was missing so I built an audio pre-amp for a dynamic mic mounted and covered in foam (vibration, wind noise) on my chest protector. In that location it picked up my voice coming out the bottom of my helmet. Early cameras had sucky electret mics. Mine had none. Used 120 minute SP tapes. Exactly long enough for a good ride on one tank. SP was 640x480. auto AGC and white balance IIRC

For laughs google Ren and Stimpy Nature. I'll refrain from posting it.

 

[moss]

I custom shaped a styrofoam wedge to go between the side of the chin/mouth protector on the mx helmet and the camera and strategically used precise duct taping only. I added a replaceable lexan cover for the lense to prevent mud scratches when cleaning. Sometimes a freak blob would land and stick and look like boulder when it was 1/8" dia!

Sound was missing so I built an audio pre-amp for a dynamic mic mounted and covered in foam (vibration, wind noise) on my chest protector. In that location it picked up my voice coming out the bottom of my helmet. Early cameras had sucky electret mics. Mine had none. Used 120 minute SP tapes. Exactly long enough for a good ride on one tank. SP was 640x480. auto AGC and white balance IIRC

For laughs google Ren and Stimpy Nature. I'll refrain from posting it.

Brilliant!

 

[evo]

I hear chickens are great gimbles something about their natural head movements maintaining a smooth feild of view. Maybe make a helmet mount for a chicken, then mount the chicken to your helmet?

 

[southsoundtree]

I've heard this.

I think a chicken would be in the way too much. I think a shoulder- mounted Cornish game hen, or whatever they're called, would give a good climber eye-chicken head height and more out of the way... definitely right shoulder!

 

[Bart_]

Smarter Every Day has a stable chicken head vid. I think in people stabilizing your head staves off motion sickness caused by vestibular system eff ups. I don't consciously stabilise my head when dirt biking - just realised it after the fact by seeing video playback. If you want a direct line to make someone puke give them a vr headgoggles, connect it to a video camera you hold in your hands and you attempt to track where they point their head manually. Takes about 1 minute. The error between their eyes and their head orientation sensing (inner ear) is what does it.

 

[bobs yeruncle]

instead of pov footage, what about a time-lapse camera? calculate framerate based on how long you want the video to be and how long the job is estimated to take, set up one static shot, minimal editing, can be pretty dramatic if youre doing a removal

 

[Bart_]

Speak the name in trivia three times and it shall emerge

 

[Friedrich]

where can i order this mounting system?

 

[southsoundtree]

instead of pov footage, what about a time-lapse camera? calculate framerate based on how long you want the video to be and how long the job is estimated to take, set up one static shot, minimal editing, can be pretty dramatic if youre doing a removal

This would be great for orchard care and beglected Japanese maple pruning, along with other ornamental pruning.