bholleran Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 This is the first video I have every taken on a paramotor using my new Sony Action Cam, I am quite pleased with it. Although I might need to work on my editing. [youtubevideo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIG23FDem8[/youtubevideo] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_b Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Nice first video Pete ps 500 foot rule, dont chase animals!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richwill15 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 nice video Barry, thanks for sharing it. how did you find the setup and use of the camera? is it one of these new fully tango'd up beasties with the wifi and everything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bholleran Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 Nice first videoPete ps 500 foot rule, dont chase animals!! Hi Pete, Are you refering to the building at the end next to the lake? If you are I was asked by the owner to take a video for him, it is a fishing lake and he wants to get a clip to put on their web site. The field we fly from is right next to it and normally it is a no fly zone. They are wild deer, and I did not do it for long. I would not do that to livestock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bholleran Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 nice video Barry, thanks for sharing it. how did you find the setup and use of the camera? is it one of these new fully tango'd up beasties with the wifi and everything? Hi Al, I really like it, it does have the built in wifi which can be used as a view finder, but it kills the battery life if you do. I got around 1.5 hours with wifi at the 1080p setting and I got around 2.5 hours without the wifi. Although I did find an issue with it. You can clip it onto the mount facing either way, which I did not realise, so I was following Mark down the river Arun yesterday with some amazing foot drags, only to find that when I landed Mark was about to kill me as I had it pointing backwards. (Sorry Mark ) Which meant he had to do it again and my camera skill were not s good the second time around. I am going to get a leg mount as I think it will be easier to keep pointing towards the subject, as I find that when it is on the helmet Every time I go to get the brake handles or look around to see what is going on it wastes a good shot. But overall I am very pleased with it considering the cost. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curiosity Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Great vid, really enjoyed it. Not quite so impressed with harassing the deer, but maybe I'm just a spoilsport and alone in thinking that's a bad idea. Otherwise, as I said... A great vid. New camera seems to perform pretty well, even in low light situations. P.s. it doesn't make a difference if they are wild or livestock. They can still spontaeously abort and suffer heart attacks through stress, even apart from the fact that its hardly going to look good to anyone else watching. (just me being grumpy again). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bholleran Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 Ok, OK, Ok I take the point about the deer, I just wanted to go and have a look at them. I consider myself reprimanded and will refrain in future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richwill15 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 reckon this will be a serious contender for the go pro. Wifi will do that i'm guessing coz of the constant beaconing. thanks for the write up Barry, glad you're pleased with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curiosity Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I'll get down off my high horse now and stop being such a sanctimonious bastard. Apologies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_k Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Good one Barry, some great video from the Sony. I might be tempted with one myself. Cracking first vid, I was almost there Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpapa Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I like the image stabilisation. Looks much smoother than other cameras. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_b Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Nice first videoPete ps 500 foot rule, dont chase animals!! Hi Pete, Are you refering to the building at the end next to the lake? If you are I was asked by the owner to take a video for him, it is a fishing lake and he wants to get a clip to put on their web site. The field we fly from is right next to it and normally it is a no fly zone. They are wild deer, and I did not do it for long. I would not do that to livestock. No probs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morgy Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Hi Barry I have to say i am impressed with the Video footage quality and stabilization. I the camera on wonky as the the river footage is at the same angle ?? At least this time it's facing forward!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinoxyfen Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Great vid, really enjoyed it. Not quite so impressed with harassing the deer, but maybe I'm just a spoilsport and alone in thinking that's a bad idea. Otherwise, as I said... A great vid. New camera seems to perform pretty well, even in low light situations.P.s. it doesn't make a difference if they are wild or livestock. They can still spontaeously abort and suffer heart attacks through stress, even apart from the fact that its hardly going to look good to anyone else watching. (just me being grumpy again). They can also jump out on to roads and deer tend to jump at windscreen height, I saw the results of that once, it ended up in the passenger seat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curiosity Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 At least they are safer than camels. They wander onto the road at night to keep warm and when you hit them, half a ton os smelly camels comes sliding through the windscreen and leaves your head in the back seat along with the obligatory box of tissues. So, watch out for those camels! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik_Y Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I understand it's tempting to get close to wild life, I've got close encounters with moose, deer and fox myself and those crazy rabbits One time I starred a fox right in the eyes at about 20m and they where bright orange shining like fire and it felt magical. And an other time I circled a moose several times and got pretty close but every little indication that it was about to back of I turned away and that made it stay it's ground and let me come back. But I never fly straight at them as that keeps them much calmer, and if I see that they back of or start running i immediately turn away and that may even get them to stay so that I can pass them by more then once. I don't think they'll get a heart attack if you chase them but they might injure them self, breaking legs or run into fences and such if they panic like that. And it doesn't look good if someone see you and if there would be an incident from it those things could get us banned. I hope you'll get you're own magical encounter someday but be careful and fly responsible Here's the fox, and he first faced me and we are both about to turn away from each other at the picture and he didn't even start running just keep on walking down to the lake. (Had my GoPro on timelapse) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Hi Barry, I wonder if you would be so kind as to email me a 10 second clip of raw footage from the Sony. ?? It's a bit of a big ask, but I think you have used some pretty full on compression before or during upload which is taking a fair chunk of quality out of the shot. It would be very helpful if you could so that I can see what It will look like uncompressed for TV. Pretty please.... SW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bholleran Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Hi Simon, I will do I just dont have any to hand, but as soon as I will make a point of recording something to send to you. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Thanks dude! SW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil1975 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Si, I've been impressed with the footage from mine - when it worked. It's back in the shop now because it regularly started recording gash footage, in fact I haven't yet managed to get any flying footage with mine! It's totally bonkers that you have to take the camera out of the case to turn it off (or in fact make it do anything except start/stop recording) & mine also doesn't want to charge - every time you plug it in it switches on, which is great because it will only charge when it's switched off! Long story short, I'm trying to get my money back & get another GoPro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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