Camera Placement Safety

I suppose if you think of the camera on an iPhone, or maybe even the 4K camera on the new Sony phones, it's incredibly flat. It can't be that long until somebody butchers one of these phones and grafts the camera on to the front of something like a helmet?

In fact, where did I put my hammer....
 
Are lenses on a lead a real thing? Surely any optical cable will have a lot of restrictions on how much it can be bent.
 
It would;t be an optical cable. The sensor is immediately behind the lens, the cable would be copper. It's just how far the CMOS signal will degrade on its way to the back box.
 
Ah, so just the battery, storage and processor in another box with data being fed to it from the sensor? That sounds ideal, but an iPhone camera would be crap for it.

How big is the GoPro lens and sensor?
 
No not yet, not long found his channel, takes me a while to get round to looking at the back catalogue
 
So in fact you could build an app for an iphone, stick a lens on via the usb port, and attach it to anywhere on or inside the helmet? I'm copyrighting this.
 
Lurch said:
Lens on a lead would easily fit anywhere without needing to do anything other than loosen the lining to run the cable neatly. I know people who have jammed a Mobius in between the side and brow padding.
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Yeah, you can surface mount the camera on your forehead for the best position with some of that super velcro stuff. That way you would only have a tiny device on your helmet, with the camera body in a pocket.

O8ride said:
So in fact you could build an app for an iphone, stick a lens on via the usb port, and attach it to anywhere on or inside the helmet? I'm copyrighting this.
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It's in the public domain now so you can't unfortunately :p

I really want this to become a thing though!
 
Last time I checked a camera isn't as substantial as tarmac, an impact with which modern helmets are designed to handle twice on the same point of contact.

So, as long as cameras are weaker than tarmac, I'm calling BS on the intensifying the force on the helmet theory. The camera is at worst going to crush, but would probably detach way before then.

One point I'll concede is it does increase the weight of your helmet, and it does make the target area bigger, for a higher likelihood of impact in that area.

Also, a little bit of high bond double sided tape weakening the resin used to make these helmets?! Anyone that has worked with these resins know that's just BS, an insurance cop-out from the manufacturers.
 
Well, there are helmet safe adhesives, and you would assume that GoPro, Sony, Contour and Drift are all big enough boys to use an appropriate adhesive.

Where other solvents and adhesives are concerned it isn't that they WILL degrade the shell (after eating through the paint one assumes) it is that the effects are not known as they have not been tested for this use, that is the difference. It IS incorrect the say they will, it is incorrect to say that they won't too.
 
I actually have this argument many times a year over the use of PPE for working at height. People put stickers and permanent marker on building helmets, same on harness webbing, and the effects are just unknown, they weren't designed to be drawn on and have non-approved adhesives put on them. Each manufacturer has a maximum life for a product, and it is a maximum, the first use could be the last. Petal state a harness must NOT be used more than 10 years after date of manufacture, regardless of when purchased, yet people are happy to put their lives in this ageing harness saying it is complete nonsense. Nobody has come out of an old (undamaged) harness yet, but I'd imagine on the way down, they will be thinking that they should have spent the £250 and got a new one when it was due. I tend to change mine every 5 years or so depending on how much use it has had. I've got 3 of the bloody things!
 
its alot of things though people get away with it for ages, but there will be that 1 time it fails and gets people hurt
 
It sits with the saying "the gear is for the slide not the ride". You don't know when it's going to happen, so mitigate it as best you can.
 
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