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Waterproof action cams

Postby Kamikuza » Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:30 pm

Add to the list of cams that don't require a case: fight the fogging!
Features and quality are another discussion...

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Re: Waterproof action cams

Postby Toby » Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:49 pm

awesome thx !

Will check the specs now

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Re: Waterproof action cams

Postby Kamikuza » Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:28 pm

Interesting... just looked at amazon.com - when I bought my ROAM2 in 2012, it was $142 new... now the new ones are $100 more expensive :o guess with the company going under, people are milking the price on the very good thing the R2 is...

Ion Air 3 looks like it could hit the spot - but I want a line mount for it 8) Stringy...?

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Re: Waterproof action cams

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Re: Waterproof action cams

Postby Toby » Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:39 pm

saw this too:

http://www.rollei.de/produkte/actioncam ... us,p100260

But JVC still best so far!

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Re: Waterproof action cams

Postby BWD » Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:27 pm

Question:
If you mount it on the kite (or lines) will the ion air pro's auto-rotation feature keep the horizon level when you change direction?
Or is it just a "flip" not a real "rotation"?
EDIT: wishful thinking, it is just a flip to adjust how you mount the camera, naturally.
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Re: Waterproof action cams

Postby VOMKB » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:47 am

Copying from Toby's thread, here are a few more:

Geonaute

Voxx 360

iOn Camera

Sony Action Cam

Polaroid Action Camera

Contour (you already know about this one)

For people who have an iPhone, Optrix makes a case and mount for it. I got a case/mount to test, but unfortunately, the mount had issues that added vibration while mountain biking.

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Re: Waterproof action cams

Postby Kamikuza » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:33 am

VOMKB wrote:Copying from Toby's thread, here are a few more:

Geonaute

Voxx 360

iOn Camera

Sony Action Cam

Polaroid Action Camera

Contour (you already know about this one)

For people who have an iPhone, Optrix makes a case and mount for it. I got a case/mount to test, but unfortunately, the mount had issues that added vibration while mountain biking.

Jaime
Cameras WITHOUT CASES I said... case = fogging :cry:

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Re: Waterproof action cams

Postby Kamikuza » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:34 am

BWD wrote:Question:
If you mount it on the kite (or lines) will the ion air pro's auto-rotation feature keep the horizon level when you change direction?
Or is it just a "flip" not a real "rotation"?
Ooh, good question!
Toby wrote:saw this too:

http://www.rollei.de/produkte/actioncam ... us,p100260

But JVC still best so far!
Make sure you get the Adixxion blah-blah2 cos it's better than the 1, I hear.

For IQ I still think GP is the king though...

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Re: Waterproof action cams

Postby ptraykovski » Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:08 am

Kamikuza wrote:
BWD wrote:Question:
If you mount it on the kite (or lines) will the ion air pro's auto-rotation feature keep the horizon level when you change direction?
Or is it just a "flip" not a real "rotation"?
Ooh, good question!

It says it has a "g-sensor" so only can flip it right side up. Needs a gyro to do real dynamic rotations.

I'm working on making a very limited beta production run of this soon. Its not perfect yet, but gets a little better each time I work on it:

viewtopic.php?t=2383020&p=820898

here is a combined rotation correction from the imu backpac and a bit of warp stabilizer processing from adobe. you can see the horizon is still sometimes ~ 20 degrees off but will fix that soon I hope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mDWMnx9TLM

ion does look nice though. Like the that contour like tube shape so much better!
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