New Wireless High Definition Helmet Camera

[martyboy26]

Check this out. Contour HD, the world's first HD Helmet Camera is now in Australia. Heaps of car mounting options. Shoots awesome quality video and audio at 1280x720 @ 30 FPS. It only weighs 100 grams and is fully self contained. $539 delivered Here now at http://www.racerecall.com/features-1.html

Edited June 23, 2009 by martyboy26

[Marlin]

I got the mass email yesterday.

Interested to know if it uses internal or external mic or both?

[phunky_monkey]

I'll be interested to see the quality vs the POV1/1.5... I'm hoping not as good as I just got a POV

[Beer Baron]

I got the mass email yesterday.

Interested to know if it uses internal or external mic or both?

internal only by the look of the pic above.

[Marlin]

yeah saw that after i posted.... shame, had high hopes.

[funkymonkey]

ugh.... HD @ 30FPS is terrible (well... amature-ish) when getting in car footage or anything with high levels of motion in it. and it only does 60FPS on SD. So realistically its still a SD camera that takes great HD stills also keep in mind that it's only 720P HD not 1080P. So its just a run of the mill HD camcorder.

For that money I'd buy three Creative Vado HD's. Ductape one to your helmet and strap the other one to the side of your car and another strapped to an RC helicopter that your mate's flying around the track for arial footage.

here's some footage shot only using a Vado HD (go to the youtube page and click the HD button to see it in full quality)

[zebra]

thats pretty impressive stuff funky.

do you have a link to the vado?

[funkymonkey]

http://au.creative.com/products/product.as...p;product=18108

Sells for a lot less, its about $175 out of the US.

Did I mention that the Vado is 16 grams lighter than the helmet cam?

[Mr. Keets]

The HD looks ok...a remote control would be nice though

[funkymonkey]

guys... check out this for a bit of a bargain if you're looking for a helmet cam:

http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/smallfish_...roducts_id=3476

cheap, but its low res etc. still, not bad. plus you can take it biking, snowboarding etc.

[260DET]

None of the above look like they do wide screen

[funkymonkey]

None of the above look like they do wide screen

The Vado and the contour HD does 1280 x 720, which is 16:9, which is widescreen

[260DET]

Here is a HD wide screen incar filmed at 30 fps, camera is a solid state ~100 grams DigiLife pocket type, cost ~$300. The subject matter is pretty ordinary but I'm very happy with the video quality. No external mike plug though.