Anyone Ever Mount A Cam On The Backpack Strap?

RiderInRed

RiderInRed

The guy who rides in red
So I was testing out a way to mount the camera with kind of some discreetness.

Basically it's going on my right shoulder strap for the backpack. I'm gonna try it out tomorrow on the actual motorcycle but today I was testing it out on my feet.

CONS: it doesn't fully look at what you look with your head, but it kind of swivles around with your torso

PROS: it goes with you anywhere you go, with or without the helmet. It doesn't need any mounts stuck on your helmet permanently. It doesn't weight down your helmet. It doesn't yell out 'LOOK I"M RECORDING!'


Thoughts?
 
It's an interesting idea -- I guess it really depends on the field of view you get from it. Are you thinking of mounting ON your shoulder or more of on your chest, lower? I'd be curious to see what you get for a view, if it gets the underside of your helmet like a dark moon hanging over your video at all times. I expect it would do that with my GoPro with the Wide FOV.

Dave aka Ghan
 
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Ghaniba said:
It's an interesting idea -- I guess it really depends on the field of view you get from it. Are you thinking of mounting ON your shoulder or more of on your chest, lower? I'd be curious to see what you get for a view, if it gets the underside of your helmet like a dark moon hanging over your video at all times. I expect it would do that with my GoPro with the Wide FOV.

Dave aka Ghan
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yep tried it out alreayd and it does look like a dark moon hanging on the top left. I guess it's better than a huge wall of helmet on the entire side of the video haha. It's right at the part the strap comes over my shoulder. It's not standing up from the strap. I need a better mounting solution though, may be a plastic sandwich that goes on the strap to tighten everything up. I'm goign to try it out on the motorcycle tomorrow and see what happens!
 
Hmm while I lean towards wanting to see a helmet view this idea could work. I do like the fact that ie will always be on and recording even when you take your helmet off. It can be a pain to keep your helmet on just to get that POV footage. Only thing I would say is buy a gimbal for the camera for ultimate smoothness and it could turn out awesome!
 
JoshAFJ said:
Hmm while I lean towards wanting to see a helmet view this idea could work. I do like the fact that ie will always be on and recording even when you take your helmet off. It can be a pain to keep your helmet on just to get that POV footage. Only thing I would say is buy a gimbal for the camera for ultimate smoothness and it could turn out awesome!
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to be honest if I could buy anythign that would get here in a week, I'd get helmet front mount arms. But, shipping is gonna take ahwile so I'm going with the backpack mount, thus can't buy a gimpbal either for now (but hey suggest me a link to something that would work with the backpack?).

On the other hand I hope Premiere Pro stabilization will work just fine! :D
 
My buddy has a really nice one he uses, but not sure if he mounted it to anything yet. I'll have to see who makes it and let you know.
 
I remember Do It With Dan made one that he wears like a backpack but puts the camera behind his shoulder. So your view is looking over his shoulder. Kind of neat for riding, shooting guns, and stuff.
 
Just tried this with a jaw-mount on a strap on a backpack. Works well, doesn't jiggle around as much as I thought. Might do it for actual recordings sometime, like when I'm on foot.
 
So it's up guys! Let me know what you guys think. I did add a little stabilization... on some shots. some don't have any at all

PS. can't post the video here, just visit my youtube from the link below
 
lupin said:
Can't quite put my finger on it but it looks wrong. Might be the satibilzation.
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2nd that, its not bad on that one, but its still enough to be mildly annoying.
I also noticed it doesn't really capture what you focus on as much, which to some degree mess with the content.
 
Maybe that's what it is. You can't tell what he's looking at. It's almost like a 3rd person view.
 
yeah stabilization and fixed angle of view. I can actually agree with the problem. Guess I still need the helmet mount!
 
Now guys I spent some time thinking about this, Could you be a little more specific here? There's some footage where you can see the bike and the image isn't stabilized (hence the bike doesn't get cropped out). I think it looks quite more 'authentic' than just stabilized. I won't have the chance to get the helmet sidemount arm really for this season so I guess i'll have to stick with this for now.
 
RiderInRed said:
Now guys I spent some time thinking about this, Could you be a little more specific here? There's some footage where you can see the bike and the image isn't stabilized (hence the bike doesn't get cropped out). I think it looks quite more 'authentic' than just stabilized. I won't have the chance to get the helmet sidemount arm really for this season so I guess i'll have to stick with this for now.
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I think its fine unstabilized. When compared to the stabilized footage.
 
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