SA
112 posts
Hi,
Started this after seeing the great photo's at Parham.
Looking to purchase a camera for water use for kiting and surfing.
Just a note (bit off track) but was surfing at Middleton on Sunday and a whale surfaced within metres of four surfers, including me!! just fabulous to watch.
Also rigging to the kite and board etc.
Any advice?
SA
91 posts
I've been using a camrig ( www.camrig.com ) with Pentax Optio W60. It does the job, but I'm sure there are better options out there. There have been plenty of seabreeze topics on the subject. As long as the camera's waterproof you could make your own kite mount out of an old camera case and some Velcro straps.
WA
1419 posts
Just a further quick note on this(make sure you search the forums as there will be a heap more info).
The GoPro and Pentax are the only cameras in the price range that support interval shooting (GoPro 2sec up and Pentax 10). All the rest (Olympus, Canon, Nikon, Sony etc) do not support this so are useless for kite mount photography.
SA
286 posts
The GoPro seems to be the one to go with. There are plenty of mounts for either board or kite lines.
www.kitehero.com is the site I've used to get the mounts.
SA
262 posts
Apologies, I'm still logged in as Saksa. Jordo here...
I'm a big fan of the GoPro. A few reasons. The market seems to have demanded a HUGE range of mounting options which various manufacturers have met well... Kite, pole, bike, board, car etc. Plus with the mounts available, me and Chopsy have built cable dollies, steady cams and various other options.
I've also snapped my GoPro off my board, it survived. Hit trees on my bike, it survived. Fallen off my skateboard onto it... It survived.
720p is the lowest resolution, which is about 30% better than DVD for instance. However, this leaves you with a severe fisheye effect. Running it at 1080p tends to flatten it out a bit and when mounting it in your kite, as I do often, you can zoom in when editing and you don't lose the quality.
Also, there's a 3D setup for them which requires another GoPro and a special waterproof case.
Ummm... What else. Oh, for editing, I use iMovie on my Mac but have just changed over to premier pro which I'm loving. Simplicity is definitely imovie's bag but if you know your stuff to a little degree, or have done some audio recording before with say cubase or similar, premier pro will probably make a lot of sense to you.
Hope this gives you a bit more info mate. Good luck with whatever you buy.
