Aug/090
Summer ending in Chamonix, VTT or MTB
The lifts are coming to a close for the summer, and I've finally finished my first headcam film. I haven't quite got the hang of it yet - I need to mount the camera on the helmet better. I'm looking forward to using this technique for skiing this winter. Skiing is much smoother and should yield much better results. Having said that, this little vimeo film isn't too shabby for a first attempt.
Aug/090
Playing with a new toy > the ATC3K Action Camera
My new toy was delivered the other day and I've spent a happy couple of days messing around with it. I bought an ATC3K Action Camera off t'interweb. Perfect for capturing those special high adrenaline danger death sport moments. And it was only a hundred quid.
It records 640x480 footage at 30 frames per second onto an 4GB SD card. That means up to about 2 hours of recording time. With no need for moving parts or an LCD screen, power consumption is kept to a bare minimum, so you probably could record for 2 hours on one set of double A (AA) batteries. It's waterproof too, and fairly hardy.
My second test of mounting it on the handlebars of my bike and cycling down to Les Praz yesterday showed some real promise. The footage is a bit shaky because of the vibration of the bike, and I've speeded it up a bit to make it a bit more interesting. But here's the full ride from my house in Le Tour to the Paradis Des Praz along the lovely Balcon Sud river path. It's not an extreme ride by any measure. I wasn't wearing any protection at all, just booting it an having fun.
Le Tour To Les Praz on the bike 175% speed from Listingslab Productions on Vimeo.
I'm going to pull the best bits of the footage out, and put them all together with some more information, perhaps mixing in some of the time lapse I did the other day to create a kind of tourist information film which will end up on youtube. While it's in production, the test renders will go onto vimeo.