Brody wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:42 pm

Freightdog wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:11 pm I’ve made some decent, but boring videos on some of our flights.

Brother, I'd love to see those. If you can do it without giving away your identity, post them in the aviation thread.

I'll see what I can do- Farcebook got all shitty with me over copyright on some music that I'd edited to fit the videos, and I ended up pulling them off. They were only ever going to be seen by my very few friends, one of who rarely looks, and the other isn't interested, so I don't understand the fuss.

I'll have to find some appropriate music fora round track. I don't upload to you tube, so I'm not sure where to host and post...

AND!

In all cases it's several minutes of your life watching them that you resent never getting back.

Did I mention boring? It's not like we're allowed to hotdog anymore

You defintely can't go wrong with with a GoPro. They just released the GoPro Hero 9, so I'm guessing you'll be able to get a killer deal on the GoPro Hero8 Black. The 9 now records in 5K resolution, but that seems a bit over the top right now, and you'd better have one hell of a computer to deal with those files.

I haven't seen those cheaper action cameras mentioned, but I'd be shocked if they come anywhere near as stable as the GoPro 8/9. They have what they called 'Hypersmooth' and it's unbelievable. You can be running with the thing, and the footage will look like you had the camera set up on a track or something. If it gets any better, you can probably drop them, and your footage will be unaffected.

I've loved my DJI Osmo Pocket, but it has a gimble, so it's not nearly as rugged as a GoPro. Which is fine, as I'm an old man and the hell if I do anything dangerous enough to need a drop-proof action camera, lol. The gimble gives it some cool features because it can rotate, but as far as 'smoothness' I still think the GoPros beat it. I think the audio is better than our GoPro 8, but not by much. The biggest downside of this thing is that, while it's small, it's very strange looking, and half the videos I've taken have people asking, 'what's that?,' and me saying, 'it's an Osmo Pocket,' as if that explains everything.

Another one that I've never used at all but many people still use to travel vlog with is the Sony FDR-X3000. It's steady enough to get out the jitters/shakes out of your videos, but not at the GoPro level.

Here is a funny travel vlogger, Harold Baldr, that uses a Sony FDR-X3000, and you can see it's pretty steady:



And here's a random video I took walking around with the Osmo Pocket, and then a motion timelapse of the river near sunset in Battambang, which is made possible by the moving gimble: