Contour has shut down

[Scuba_Steve]

Contour Inc, competition to Go Pro in action cam market, shut it's doors on Fri week or 2 back (sorry if it's been posted previous)

“As of Friday Contour is CLOSED,” wrote Jacob Hase, the company’s former social media manager, in a public post on his personal Facebook page this week. ”Ya, it shocked all the employees even more. Incredibly hard to just walk away from something you put so much energy into.”
He added in a follow-up comment, “No one really knows what happened. We were just told we are no longer are employed by Contour and the doors were locked on Friday.” (http://www.geekwire.com/2013/contour-closes-seattle-hq-surprises-employees-execs-mum-status-gopro-rival/)

[nzspokes]

Contour Inc, competition to Go Pro in action cam market, shut it's doors on Fri week or 2 back (sorry if it's been posted previous)

“As of Friday Contour is CLOSED,” wrote Jacob Hase, the company’s former social media manager, in a public post on his personal Facebook page this week. ”Ya, it shocked all the employees even more. Incredibly hard to just walk away from something you put so much energy into.”
He added in a follow-up comment, “No one really knows what happened. We were just told we are no longer are employed by Contour and the doors were locked on Friday.” (http://www.geekwire.com/2013/contour-closes-seattle-hq-surprises-employees-execs-mum-status-gopro-rival/)

Guess I better not break mine and need parts then. Shame as Gopros just look so stupid for helmet mounts.

[Gremlin]

Yep, some wonder whether or not someone else will bring the ideas to life in another company.

On the other hand, Garmin has now entered the market with their own product... http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/news/article/garmin-virb-and-virb-elite-action-cameras-launched-38170/

[Milts]

Funny this should come up, I've been considering a camera for a while now but didn't like the look of gopros.

I saw the Garman camera on uncrate (http://www.uncrate.com/stuff/garmin-virb-camera/)yesterday and thought it looked perfect.

The other one I like the look of is the Looxcie (http://www.looxcie.com/looxcie-hd/) - doesn't seem to be as major a brand but looks like a nice camera.

[Scuba_Steve]

Funny this should come up, I've been considering a camera for a while now but didn't like the look of gopros.

I saw the Garman camera on uncrate (http://www.uncrate.com/stuff/garmin-virb-camera/)yesterday and thought it looked perfect.

The other one I like the look of is the Looxcie (http://www.looxcie.com/looxcie-hd/) - doesn't seem to be as major a brand but looks like a nice camera.

The Sony one seems to preform pretty well & seems to be one of the better ones in low light

[oneofsix]

Shame as Gopros just look so stupid for helmet mounts. Agreed. Meant to be best at the job but the look is just not good.


The Sony one seems to preform pretty well & seems to be one of the better ones in low light Heard the Sony is meant to be the second best to the Gopros.

Still not sure I want video evidence of my mistakes :lol: Thou the twats I've seen the last two days deserve to be videoed :nono: not surprised that poor lass was forced into rolling her car at J'ville. Bloody full moons and dangerous lane changing.

[Corse1]

I received a letter from Qantas Monday saying I had to spend 54000 points or lose them! cant remember the last time I flew with them and didn't realise I had that many points. GoPro Hero 3 arrived in the post today;)

Dont care how bad it looks when it came from the Qantas shop! Cheap bullet camera used once going on trademe! But yeah I was only talking to someone today about the Contour cameras and he had never heard of them.

[nzspokes]

Agreed. Meant to be best at the job but the look is just not good.



For trail riding they are nasty, have seen vids of the cameras catching on trees and trying to pull riders helmets off.

[FROSTY]

intova now for me

[Big Dave]

For trail riding they are nasty, have seen vids of the cameras catching on trees and trying to pull riders helmets off.


You just have to be smarter than the tree.

Helmet is the worst place to mount a camera anyway. That's the best bit about the go pros, the variety of mounting options available.

The bad thing is that much of the hardware is made of cheese. One to (maybe) two year life expectancy for most of the brackets in moderate use.