Testing the Camera Mount in the Pool
15 05 2008Yeah, baby; time put this little puppy through its paces at the pool. Overall- pretty cool, performed well, fit for purpose. A few over looked challenges (1) lack of grap loop- not good, not recommended (2) hand occasionally hits camera while rolling and it hurts!!! (3) More bits sticking out from kayak= more potential to pin (4) More Locktight needed (5) Better camera small ball mount needed (6) the torque the camera would experience in the ocean surf could be too much; might break kayak. I’m meeting with my friend who’s a welder soon to tease out some of these issues. Stand by for Kate’s low-tech-jury-rigged-cheap-o-camera- mount-version 2.0; an affordable mount for those with undisposable incomes.
Testing the mount -video link
Thought I’d post up a video of pool footage from the camera. Please excuse the egocentric appearance of the video ; I usually don’t put any footage of myself in my videos, but on this occasion, I was testing the ability to film both other people and myself. It’s all about me, me, me; clearly 
This post was written yesterday…prior to my boat being stolen. Boo.
That looks like it worked well. I’m a sucker for head-cam footage. I want to try something like this with a gopro-3.
It worked pretty well. Will work on the design more so that the camera angle is better.
Cool footage - looks like the mount was working pretty well. Saw your post on BT about the boat being stolen… bummer. Hope you find it.
Yeah Yakdaddy, I’ve ordered a different mount from amazon.com-hopefully it’ll work better. WRT to the boat, as my friend said yesterday, a playboater without a playboat = an unhappy paddler. But not for too long- I ordered a new All Star and it was shipped yesterday. YEAH!