Helmet-mounted digital video camera?

**nonie** · 5th March 2014, 08:59

Can anybody recommend a digital video camera for mounting on either helmet or bike, apart from go-pro. Need something easy/ simple to use. prefer a stop-go button that I can flick while riding if such a thing is around. want good battery life and can take a large memory card. Oh also reasonably wide angle and stability. Can't afford to spend an awful lot either. sorry if there is already a thread about this but I could not find one. Thanks

**insomnia01** · 5th March 2014, 09:10

trademe is a good place to start, got me a 1st gen Gopro for $150 works great, there are also other options there

**awa355** · 5th March 2014, 10:04

I have a spare Vholder ( early Contour standard definition) which I have replaced with a GoPro. The contour is slimmer and easier to operate than the GoPro but the SD video is nowhere as sharp as hd. The contour had a mount on my helmet and a homemade mount on the handle bars. Some early cameras can be good value providing they haven't been knocked around.

**jellywrestler** · 5th March 2014, 10:12

Originally Posted by nonie

Can anybody recommend a digital video camera for mounting on either helmet or bike, apart from go-pro. Need something easy/ simple to use. prefer a stop-go button that I can flick while riding if such a thing is around. want good battery life and can take a large memory card. Oh also reasonably wide angle and stability. Can't afford to spend an awful lot either. sorry if there is already a thread about this but I could not find one. Thanks

when michael schumaker wakes up ask him...

**slofox** · 5th March 2014, 10:29

I like my Replay XD. Easy to use on the fly, takes great video, easy to mount etc etc.

**oneofsix** · 5th March 2014, 10:47

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

when michael schumaker wakes up ask him...

yep, my first thought was the same, mounted on the chin guard might be the safest option at least that way you only loose a few teeth or your jaw

Actually you are less likely to directly impact the chin guard, any impact to the chin guard is likely to scrape the camera off.

**Akzle** · 5th March 2014, 12:21

i will never understand this. Nine hunnit and ninedy nine days in a thousand, i dont give a fuck what you do.

On the thousandth day youll probably find me kicking you in the minge and smashing your camera..

NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU, IF THEY DID, THEY WOULD COME AND SEE YOU. NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR COMMUTE OR WHY YOURE SO BUTTHURT BY A CAGER DOING DUMB SHIT. EVEN WHEN DOING EPIC SHIT, GUESS WHAT, NO ONE GIVES A FUCK.

**strandedinnz** · 5th March 2014, 12:28

Originally Posted by Akzle

...Random gibberish...

I are you actually like this in real life ?

**strandedinnz** · 5th March 2014, 12:34

Originally Posted by nonie

Can anybody recommend a digital video camera for mounting on either helmet or bike, apart from go-pro. Need something easy/ simple to use. prefer a stop-go button that I can flick while riding if such a thing is around. want good battery life and can take a large memory card. Oh also reasonably wide angle and stability. Can't afford to spend an awful lot either. sorry if there is already a thread about this but I could not find one. Thanks

I got a "M500 Sport DV" (sometimes called the Sport F9, Sport M500 F9) camera for my commute in, handy to have for insurance claims is my logic, it cost US$79 which included a 16GB card and free shipping from China .. camera isn't bad quality, seems tough enough, but the helmet mount is more geared to cyclists .. since the camera is the same form factor as the ReplayXD (much better camera to be honest, but 3 times the price) I was planning on getting a helmet mount for one of those and using it with my camera.

If you want an idea of what video is like when mounted to the handle bars I have a few videos up on Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/Marksmithinnz/videos

**nonie** · 5th March 2014, 12:53

thanks, will check out those suggestions.
Is there something wrong with the person named Akzle??????

**Akzle** · 5th March 2014, 13:06

Originally Posted by nonie

Is there something wrong with the person named Akzle??????

thats a whole nother thread sunshine.

**RDJ** · 5th March 2014, 13:45

...the International Classification of Diseases rewrite did not include anything new for this type of pathology in its latest iteration; for now I think we would have to go with sociopathic narcissist, keyboard Tourette's, tertiary progressivism, and an overdeveloped inferiority complex manifested by challenging all forms of authority, including imaginary ones.

**RDJ** · 5th March 2014, 13:47

Originally Posted by nonie

Can anybody recommend a digital video camera for mounting on either helmet or bike, apart from go-pro. Need something easy/ simple to use. prefer a stop-go button that I can flick while riding if such a thing is around. want good battery life and can take a large memory card. Oh also reasonably wide angle and stability. Can't afford to spend an awful lot either. sorry if there is already a thread about this but I could not find one. Thanks

if you can find a Sony ADR 15 for sale, it ticks all your boxes except for the price. The first-generation ones are cheap these days because the next gen is out already, you might be lucky.

**pritch** · 5th March 2014, 14:03

Originally Posted by strandedinnz

I are you actually like this in real life ?

Generally rather than specifically regarding Akzle who is often amusing, that's an interesting question. Recent research indicates that internet trolls tend to be arseholes in real life as well. Not that that will come as a surprise to most people.

**Akzle** · 5th March 2014, 14:31

Originally Posted by RDJ

...the International Classification of Diseases rewrite did not include anything new for this type of pathology in its latest iteration; for now I think we would have to go with sociopathic narcissist, keyboard Tourette's, tertiary progressivism, and an overdeveloped inferiority complex manifested by challenging all forms of authority, including imaginary ones.

otherwise most would put it down to bongs for brekkie and homebrew an hookers for lunch.