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jbrown2
Nov 26, 2012, 4:12 AM
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Can we as climbers please stop climbing with cameras on our heads. The footage sucks and thats all. Thanks
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guangzhou
Nov 26, 2012, 4:59 AM
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jbrown2 wrote: Can we as climbers please stop climbing with cameras on our heads. The footage sucks and thats all. Thanks
Stop watching the footage on Youtube. Your choice.
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camhead
Nov 26, 2012, 11:53 AM
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guangzhou wrote: jbrown2 wrote: Can we as climbers please stop climbing with cameras on our heads. The footage sucks and thats all. Thanks Stop watching the footage on Youtube. Your choice.
... and if you don't like bolts, just don't clip them!
Seriously, there is no such thing as a good GoPro climbing video (with the possible exception of this one). They're much better for rafting or mtn biking videos.
The original poster has performed a valuable public service.
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Wade308
Nov 26, 2012, 5:57 PM
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camhead wrote: (with the possible exception of this one).
When I was reading through this thread, I was thinking, "That one vid from GOTG is pretty cool..."
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marc801
Nov 26, 2012, 6:02 PM
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camhead wrote: Seriously, there is no such thing as a good GoPro climbing video...
1. When climbing, we move our heads and look around *a lot* - it makes for some pretty lousy video. Few climbers have the discipline and ability to not do that when they have a dork box, uh, GoPro sprouting from their head.
2. The GoPro is a really wide angle lens. When it's that close to the subject as it is in climbing, there's a lot of annoying spherical image distortion.
Edit to fix spelling
(This post was edited by marc801 on Nov 26, 2012, 9:59 PM)
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louBlissab
Nov 26, 2012, 8:12 PM
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jbrown2 wrote: Can we as climbers please stop climbing with cameras on our heads. The footage sucks and thats all. Thanks
Hard to say that people's self-absorbed Go Pro climbing videos are facinating...actually much less and much more annoying!
There is a resemblance to teletubbies however.
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