Sun - February 3, 2008

... paddling photography speedlinking for February 4, 2008







paddling South Platte River

Paddling and photography links from our readers and from surfing the web:
  • Rambo is showing pictures of some of his innovations in camera mounting for paddling and racing including several mount options for GoPro Digital Hero. Just a few day ago I wrote about his panning camera mount.
  • Peter Donohue posted a nice review of Oregon Scientific ATC-2K waterproof video camera including examples of video clips.
    It is a relatively simple camera, without a view screen and saving all videos onto a memory card. But what appealed to me is that it comes with necessary straps and brackets to attach to most anything, including both a bicycle handle bar and a helmet.

    Summary - Pros
    + Inexpensive (under $100 at Amazon)
    + Attaches to most anywhere with provided straps and brackets
    + waterproof and rugged
    + Simple to use
    + Decent battery life
    + Good for basic action videos which don't need high resolution

    Summary - Cons
    - relatively poor quality
    - no vibration stabilization
    - no software to edit/trim videos
    - Not high quality video
    - Not that good for use as a hand held
    - microphone is basically useless

    You can find another review of this video cam in Helmet Cam Central.


  • Stephen Shephard posted three video clips taken last summer when sea kayaking in Alaska using the deck camera mount he put together.
  • I am preparing 2008 Marathon and Ultra Marathon Paddling Race Calendar in Fitness Paddling blog. I also posted a list of winter and spring trips and paddle races on the South Platte River in northern Colorado. I will try to post there my training runs as well if you would like to join me. Typically, I am paddling upstream and downstream.

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