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Posted by John Hopkins
 - May 27, 2013, 10:18:11 AM

There are always two sides to the road and whenever I go out and take photos I am stuck with the choice of great views blocked out by the sun or, not so great views with the sun behind me, If I choose the one with the sun behind me I have my shadow to contend with..With a fixed video camera you have the same problem every time you change direction and editing the over bright bits out can leave you with a very jumpy film.

John.

Posted by Troll
 - May 27, 2013, 07:10:59 AM

  I don't like riding into the sun, either, but I'm just glad there was some. I am a little south of the arctic circle....

Posted by greenbarn
 - May 26, 2013, 23:50:18 PM

That was a good one Troll, the choice of music was swell.  Can't say I love the sun in my eyes, though....  A couple of times I thought you were going to hit something in the road....  I guess I better get polarized sunglasses to watch these when you're riding into the sun... 8)

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - May 26, 2013, 17:44:13 PM

  ok what was that a wabbit or a cat that crossed the road?

love the music....

Posted by Troll
 - May 26, 2013, 11:19:34 AM

  Sometimes, when you agree to make a "house call" in a rural area, you get surprised. By following directions I found that the  saying "you can't miss it"in this case, actually was true...the road ends at her garage door. For a while, there, I was starting to think I was in the "outback"
https://picasaweb.google.com/109550952480484427597/GoProVideoClips#5882319352291666530

Posted by Troll
 - May 26, 2013, 07:38:54 AM

I would need to buy a "skeleton" mount...The original it came with is waterproof to 60', so no holes at all. always something else to buy....

Posted by greenbarn
 - May 25, 2013, 21:27:16 PM

Hey Troll, they make a cigarette lighter-to-USB adapter that is common and available, I imagine, in most electronic departments.  It's common for some of the new phones to charge this way.  I just bought one for my wife, I think it was $10 or so. 

Posted by Troll
 - May 25, 2013, 20:03:08 PM

Mine is a Hero 2...There are a couple of options for powering it, but so far I've just been using the internal battery. It will charge off a computer usb port or a usb charger like a cell phone. When it's connected to a computer, it automatically goes into read/write disk mode. I don't own a charger with the correct size plug that isn't a computer, but I seem to remember reading it will function off a charger. More experiments! The case it mounts in is waterproof, so there is no way to connect to the power port, unless the camera is out of the case...

Posted by John Hopkins
 - May 25, 2013, 19:25:24 PM

I,ve been looking at the gopro and there are several different models ranging from the Hero to the Hero 2, Hero 3, in white, silver and black all with different prices and specs..

Which one are you using?

And does yours have the ability to use the bike battery from a lead like a GPS or are you limited to the camera battery time?

Thanks.

John.

Posted by CDNRatMan
 - May 22, 2013, 19:40:56 PM

  I'll watch that till I can remember the route to your house ...thanks....lol.....

Posted by Troll
 - May 22, 2013, 19:03:12 PM

I have some new software (freeware) that should allow me to edit the MP4 files the camera generates without having to transcode them first. I did a computer housecall last night, and tried several different resolutions while I was going to and coming from the patient...This video is shot in 1080 I with a 120 deg. field of view. Gives you a look at the part of town I live in. Looks like it's taking a LONG TIME for picasa to process the video...I'll post the link when it gets done. :o
https://picasaweb.google.com/109550952480484427597/GoProVideoClips#5880953630358732466

Posted by Troll
 - May 22, 2013, 08:31:50 AM

I edited the sections down to a short piece to make it more friendly to the free sites I use to host the films. The actual sections the camera breaks the recording into vary in length based on the resolution I'm using. At the highest setting, it runs about 14 minutes, and at lower settings as much as 25 minutes. I have a 32 Gbyte memory card in the camera, and I took a trip of some 70 miles last night and only used about 1/3 of the capacity. The camera automatically cuts sections at 1.85 Gbytes.

Posted by John Hopkins
 - May 22, 2013, 05:41:14 AM

I notice that your films are only 2 minutes long, is this because you have edited them to keep interest high or something to do with the memory capacity..

The picture quality seems good and both films seem very clear, I would have expected at least one bug to splat on the screen and plenty of road splatter on the lower mount, can you remember what speeds you were travelling at?

John.

Posted by Troll
 - May 21, 2013, 13:41:41 PM

Let me know when you do the great river road, I can see it from my house...

Posted by TripWire
 - May 21, 2013, 12:23:14 PM

Kettle Moraine is one of my planned rides this year, gonna ride the entire Kettle Moraine route.  Other planned rides for this year are:
* Iron Butt ride around Lake Superior (did Lake Michigan last year)
* Angle Inlet in MN (northern most point the 48 states)
* Great River road

I have been thinking about picking up a GoPro.  Saw a guy who had his setup to take just a few frames a second while riding up to Alaska.  Record pretty much the entire ride, that was a fun video to watch.

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