Go Pro Gurus Looking for advice

[boss hoss bill]

Just unpacked my GoProHero3 Black Edition.
Reading the manual it says to get a MicroSd,Sdxc, orSdhc card with a speed class of 10 or higher.
I could use some advice on what card to buy and where?
Also, mount recommendations as well. Do you use suction cup mounts, and wear it on your helmet, or mount it on your hard points such as crash bars etc?
I'll be using it mostly for videos.
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Bill

[Pappy!]

Bill, the SD cards out there vary in quality. The rating required is kind of an indicaton of the speed capability on the card. The higher the better.
If you have a Best Buy around  they will have plenty of cards. Either buy one with a lot of storage capacity or buy two with a bit less. Don't skimp on the cards bottom line. If you think you will be doing a lot of shooting then purchase an additional battery as well.
On the GoPro forums I have seen where the guys are keeping the batteries out of the cameras until they are ready to use to max the batt life. As of this writing I have not seen a difference and leave mine in.
As far as where to place? That's totally a preference decision. I place mine up between the handlebars where the gauges can be seen as well as the road ahead. Down on the side of the bike for those twisty road scenes is great. (you know....those roads we don't have down here). Helmet sides or top will give you kind of an insiders feel to whats going on while riding. Your choice!
I use the full underwater case to cut wind noise almost completely out.
Also bought a small Pelican case to put my two GoPros in plus the necessary "Stuff" to stash and keep everything dry.

[Bugslayer]

I bought a SanDisk Ultra 64GB MicroSDXC from Amazon. Good price and TONS of storage. I had 40+ videos on it from my Ireland trip, and only a small portion of it's memory was used.

The cool thing with GoPro mounting hardware is you can combine them in different configurations. I've mounted the camera all over the bike. To me, the best location for a frontal view is mounted to the front turn signal. My bracket goes under the windshield, with the camera in front of it.... Giving the camera an unobstructed view.

If you use the suction cup, make sure to tether the camera to something solid. Just to be safe. They sell Tether kits or just make your own.

[MarkT]

I have had problems with several brands of SD cards.  Except SanDisc.  Cosco sells them. So does Micro Center but they sell other brands too.  I think Walgreens has them IIRC.  Get the biggest your camera will support (32GB or more) speed 10 or better.  Doesn't matter if it's micro-SD or the regular, except you can't tell how big the card inside is, w/o removing it unless you mark the holder appropriately. 

I have 4 mounts on Deerslayer.  I found Ball mounts with Hero mounts are the most versatile.  I have Ball mounts off both reservoir mounts on the bars.  Get some extender arms too.  And some handlebar clamp Ball mounts.  I have one mounted on my lower crash bar (but high enough it won't drag) and an adhesive mount on the rear fender.  I stay away from suction cup mounts because I don't trust them.  Be sure to attach a lanyard if you use such a mount.

Wind noise is a problem.  At Least for my Hero HD cameras, even inside the waterproof housing.  Could be something fixed in your more recent model.  I wish they had a remote mic plug.  I suppose I could take it apart and install one.  Or spend the money on your model to get the latest features.  But then I saved a lot of coin by buying two earlier models.  On the video below, I used the sound from the rear camera only, as the wind was blocked - the forward camera, sound was really bad from the wind.

If you do a helmet mount, you will find you need to move your head slowly - fast movements don't look good.

I will be making videos with Chuck of his restored George's Bobber sometime pretty soon.  I plan to get several angles of it and edit them into a video.  Some shots to be alongside, shooting sideways.  Some done in Redrocks park, a beautiful location.

This video was shot with two HD models, on the clutch ball mount with 6" extender arm, and on the rear fender adhesive mount:

EDIT2 Heroes & Valkyries on Skyline Drive Colorado

[donaldcc]

  SD cards with a lot of capacity are available at very reasonable prices.  Check out Amazon or just go down to Best Buy or Costco.  Look on Amazon for additional generic batteries and get 2 or 3 and a generic wall mounted, plug in charger for faster charging.

 I have mounted mine just about everywhere you can.  Suction cup is stable, but as was said, tether for safety.  I have had on handlebars through windshield (don't like video or pics with distracting shield), suction to bags looking to rear and front,   engine guards down low looking forward.

  The place I like the most is with the adhesive attachment on front of windshield as pictured below.  Learn to use different functions and enjoy.  I have done a ton of video and for pics what I like a lot is to set camera to take pic every 1-3 seconds.  You get a lot of wasted pics, but a few that really stand out.  With SD you just put in your computer to screen and delete most of them.

[Oss]

Don I like where you put the go pro and will check out putting mine there

but I WILL use a safety tether

After all any bump big enough to knock off FRED could dislodge a suction cup as well

[donaldcc]

  Evan I only used tether with the suction mount.  I attached the adhesive mount on the chrome of the windshield and can plug and unplug the GoPro from that.  The mount is VERY stable and  am not worried at all about it coming off.