Helmet camera

[Moonshot_1]

In the past, when the wife and I would go on a bike trip, she would ride on the back and have the camera at hand and take pictures on our trip while on the fly.

She has since gotten her own bike.

Our recent trip to the Lake Superior area, (South shore) lacked some photos.

Actually, lacked a lot of photos.

So a thought on how to solve this issue is to find a helmet camera.
Just looking for a still photo camera that can be mounted to the helmet like my Sena bluetooth com set.

What is good out there?

[hubcapsc]

GoPro will mount to your helmet.

I mounted mine to my bicycle helmet once, it was too heavy,
lot of helmet movement when zooming down the bumpy
singletrack.

One of the riders at the Hillbilly ride had a GoPro mounted
to his motorcycle helmet, he went a lot faster than me,
didn't seem to bother him at all.

Based on my bicycle experience, whatever you use needs
to be light weight...

-Mike

[Rams]

Back when I used to skydive, some jumpers used helmet cams, not something I ever tried but, they did talk about the weight of it.  The major difference I can see is their total time while freefalling was short in comparasion to riding with one.   Also, just how will you know what you're shooting and when to shoot to get the picture you want. 

Have to be light weight and have some sort of lens and a trigger switch unless you want to record continuously.  Technology is wonderful most of the time when it works but, I've found that the user must know what the hell he's doing.  Therefore, I think I'll go get my Kodak and shoot some pics.  Anyone know where to get film now days? 

[jer0177]

The GoPro cameras aren't all that heavy - I've used the head strap with mine before and as long as I kept it out of the wind coming over the windshield, had a hard time telling it was there.

They can be set to either record video (which you can capture any single frame from with amazing clarity) or set to take a picture every X seconds (the new HD Hero2 will allow as short as .5 seconds).

Below is a screen shot of a paused video from my GoPro HD Hero.  You can see the speedometer indicates >40mph, and the car passing the other direction was going at least 30 (speed limit).  Notice how the wheels aren't blurry - you can actually see them clearly. 

[Atl-Jerry]

Have to be light weight and have some sort of lens and a trigger switch unless you want to record continuously.

When my son turned 40, he did a tandem skydive and we got the video package for him.  The photographer had a video camera mounted on top of his helmet and a still camera on each side of the helmet.  He had a shutter cable running into his mouth from each side, attached to a little "button" he could bite down on to take pictures.  He must have known what he was doing because the video and still pix came out great.

AJ

[Rams]

Have to be light weight and have some sort of lens and a trigger switch unless you want to record continuously.

When my son turned 40, he did a tandem skydive and we got the video package for him.  The photographer had a video camera mounted on top of his helmet and a still camera on each side of the helmet.  He had a shutter cable running into his mouth from each side, attached to a little "button" he could bite down on to take pictures.  He must have known what he was doing because the video and still pix came out great.

AJ

Yep, I've seen similar equipment but, not what most cyclist would be interested in.  One would need a lens to look through the camera lens which would also be an issue for normal riding.  I admit I don't have a clue as to what is available now, I'm still looking for Kodak film for my Insta-Matic.