[1000-Oaks]

Most are pretty impressive (check out the footage samples, the snowmobile SledPorn and MX on the Sportzshot site is great), here are links to the ones I found. I think I'm gonna go for the JonesCAM kit.

http://www.jonescam.tv/helmet_camera.html

http://www.hoyttech.com/

http://www.skullcamz.com/index.cfm

http://www.sportzshot.com/index.htm

http://www.sports-camera.com/

http://www.viosport.com/

http://www.x10.com/news/howto/0712_helmetcam.htm

http://www.off-road.com/dirtbike/products/actionsportscam/

http://www.bulletcam.com/

http://www.wirelessvideocameras.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/helcam.htm?E+scstore

 

[dexterq20]

Could ya order one for me while you're at it?

 

[1000-Oaks]

Sure, anyone else want one?

 

[azonicbruce]

WARNING!!!

JonesCAM, while their cameras are a great value, and have some of the best specs, have HORRIBLE, I mean HORRIBLE customer service!!! :mumble:

Cross you fingers, throw salt over your shoulder, say a prayer, and just HOPE that you never have a problem with the camera.

I had a connection go bad on mine (the 480EX) which I admitted was my fault and simply asked for it to be repaired; I would pay for it to be fixed. Long story short,after 2 MONTHS of bugging them and calling every couple days, they finally just gave up and decided to send me a new one........ to the WRONG address. That took ANOTHER month and a half to get that straigtened out.

Don't EVER assume that they got all you info. Be specific, and when they say they'll call you back or get back to you, make sure you ask them "Do you have my phone # or my email address" Chances are they don't so you need to spell everything out for them.

 

[1000-Oaks]

Wow, thanks for the warning. Good to know.

 

[azonicbruce]

Yeah the replacement camera I got developed a dead pixel. Normally I would have been all for sending it back for warrantly or even paying to have it repaired. Luckily it's not very noticible so I'm either going to sell it cheap of just keep shooting with it until it dies.

Another note. Invest in a recarchable battery, one that does NOT use removable batteries. These type of battery holders will drive you nuts. You'll pull you hair out for messing up the perfect shot because all the bouncing around causes the batteries to lose connection sometimes and you get lousy blips in your video signal.

Also, get the wide angle lens. I found that with the stock lens it was extrememly hard to get it positioned where I could get what I wanted in the frame. Wide angle helped a lot.

Hmm, back when I bought mine almost a year and a half ago it cost me $275 and that was including the Lanc remote. Looks like their prices have gone up.

Also, I see they now have this "anti-fog" stuff. Probably because the camera sometimes has "fogging" problems. It seems like after the camera was running for awhile and got hot the lens would start to fog. I could never figure out if it was condensation or something else, but one thing that helped remedy it was to never use the foam that you put around it to protect it. It allowed the heat to dissipate better and I didn't seem to have problems with it after that.

 

[Kornphlake]

Bruce,

We put a dessicant lozenge in our camera heads to keep them from fogging up. I could probablly snatch ya one if you're interested. One other thing we do is to "bake" the cameras after assembly to evaporate the majority of the moisture. You may try opening up your camera and putting it in your oven for 30 minutes at 125-150 deg F then closing it up about as fast as you can after you take it out.

For those interested in a stupidly expensive over built camera check out:

www.deepsea.com/multiseacam.html

I can personally attest that the sapphire window at the front is impossible to scratch using anything softer than diamond.

 

[azonicbruce]

Ahhh, yeah!!! Those look sweet.

Can you just hook me up with one of those?

Kornphlake here can attest to the fogging problem. He probably remembers me yelling when I looked at the footage when he was geared up in Alpine and it came out all blurry.

 

[DLo]

I bought the one from www.helmetcamera.com. It's done it's job for me and the guys there have been pretty decent with CS it seems. Only sample vids I have up right now are dirt biking videos. Here's a link to them:
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93797

There was somethin else I wanted to post but now I forgot... damn.

 

[1000-Oaks]

Instead of baking, I bet you could open the head and blow nitrogen from a welding bottle inside and then cap it (while still blowing gas). Welding gas shouldn't have any moisture in it, I wouldn't think it would anyway. The better rifle scopes and binoculars are nitrogen-filled.

 

[freeriding101]

Bruce,


For those interested in a stupidly expensive over built camera check out:

www.deepsea.com/multiseacam.html

hey smarts thats a under water camera, and if you have ever been 6000meters underwater you would under stand why it cost so much, you send a styrofoam cup that deep and when it comes back up you cant even get it over the tip of your thumb (i know iv seen it)