Shoulda set it up right the day before when the surf was cranking. Only went out to test the soloshot, but had some fun little waves. Looking forward to some good days & its that time of year when the magic days starts happening

Nice mate Obct would be proud of you taking on all those leftsNow was that doggie on the 666?

Cheers Mac ...I don't know Doggie, pretty sure he lives in Perth.

Cool mick thanks for sharing that .

Pretty cool mate .... as you say would have been smoking footage the day before - I'm hoping in the next week we see some more of that

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Pretty cool mate .... as you say would have been smoking footage the day before - I'm hoping in the next week we see some more of that

Drop in on him so we get some footage of the pup

hahaha you'd have been proud of me champion - we had a blast hey ....Mick & I have had some sweet surfs at times

That was great to see in action Mick - clearly at a secret West Aus location with the lack of crew in the water I am really surprised at how well it works. Its tracking looked spot on.

Maybe a silly question but does it keep recording or do you activate it when you want it to start n stop? If so through what mechanism?

Was there much editing involved then when its all done?

Teddy mate .... it's a 25 minute drive from the nearest main road , the track is infested with 12 foot tiger snakes , Dingoes that chew tyres for brekky , goannas that like human flesh , ticks as big as cats , shortboard eating feral goats , wild pigs that are just plain nasty to anyone who goes near their Mully crops .... oh and the Longboard chicks are 8 foot amazons who force boys to do unspeakable things , I've been terrorised at times ...... well you know the caper

When nuthin' goes right..


Go Left

Mick would love to see some solo shot footage of a certain reef a couple of kms to the south that has seals if you know what I mean

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Teddy mate .... it's a 25 minute drive from the nearest main road , the track is infested with 12 foot tiger snakes , Dingoes that chew tyres for brekky , goannas that like human flesh , ticks as big as cats , shortboard eating feral goats , wild pigs that are just plain nasty to anyone who goes near their Mully crops .... oh and the Longboard chicks are 8 foot amazons who force boys to do unspeakable things , I've been terrorised at times ...... well you know the caper

well thats very informative Pup as i thought you only had **** loads of sharks

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Ctngoodvibes said..

Mick would love to see some solo shot footage from some of those bike girls that Weiry & Pup knows - if you know what I mean

Fixed it for ya

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thePup said..

Teddy mate .... it's a 25 minute drive from the nearest main road , the track is infested with 12 foot tiger snakes , Dingoes that chew tyres for brekky , goannas that like human flesh , ticks as big as cats , shortboard eating feral goats , wild pigs that are just plain nasty to anyone who goes near their Mully crops .... oh and the Longboard chicks are 8 foot amazons who force boys to do unspeakable things , I've been terrorised at times ...... well you know the caper

well thats very informative Pup as i thought you only had **** loads of sharks and the farkwits who don't like fish & chips

Yeah mate

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Ctngoodvibes said..

Mick would love to see some solo shot footage from some of those bike girls that Weiry & Pup knows - if you know what I mean

Fixed it for ya

You are Home alone again aren't you Rhino

LOL...cheers guys, hope all is well & your getting a lot more swell than we aren't atm...

Ted, with the soloshot 1 you basically have 3 parts to the kit. A little white thing you velcro to your arm which is a transmitter & a tripod which is receiving the transmission from that transmitter. You have to sync these 2 parts together so the tripod keeps pointed at the transmitter. You put your camera on top of the tripod & the tripod keeps the camera pointed at you (if you set it up right). Best thing is to put the camera on the tripod, focus the camera on an object you can stand in front of, walk to that object & then sync the transmitter/tripod by pressing a button on the transmitter....once that's done, I take the transmitter off & place it like 20 ft in front of the tripod & go & start the recording button. Otherwise it keeps moving around trying to point at you while you frantically run around trying to press the button (yes I was dumb enough to make this mistake & its probably why the camera was misaligned the first time).

So yeah, your continually recording & if its inconsistent like this day. Your going to have to edit out the nothingness. These were all the waves I had in just under 110 mins, so like 107.5 mins of footage on the floor, but ya gotta love digital hey

The soloshot 2 also has vertical panning & I think it also has a control to stop start recording. I know you can control zoom, so it would most likely have stop/start recording also. But for me a simple horizontal pan & editing out the nothingness is all good/NP.

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LOL...cheers guys, hope all is well & your getting a lot more swell than we aren't atm...

Ted, with the soloshot 1 you basically have 3 parts to the kit. A little white thing you velcro to your arm which is a transmitter & a tripod which is receiving the transmission from that transmitter. You have to sync these 2 parts together so the tripod keeps pointed at the transmitter. You put your camera on top of the tripod & the tripod keeps the camera pointed at you (if you set it up right). Best thing is to put the camera on the tripod, focus the camera on an object you can stand in front of, walk to that object & then sync the transmitter/tripod by pressing a button on the transmitter....once that's done, I take the transmitter off & place it like 20 ft in front of the tripod & go & start the recording button. Otherwise it keeps moving around trying to point at you while you frantically run around trying to press the button (yes I was dumb enough to make this mistake & its probably why the camera was misaligned the first time).

So yeah, your continually recording & if its inconsistent like this day. Your going to have to edit out the nothingness. These were all the waves I had in just under 110 mins, so like 107.5 mins of footage on the floor, but ya gotta love digital hey

The soloshot 2 also has vertical panning & I think it also has a control to stop start recording. I know you can control zoom, so it would most likely have stop/start recording also. But for me a simple horizontal pan & editing out the nothingness is all good/NP.

You just fit your own camera than

Have you got suggestions on camera to get or what your using

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MickPC said..

LOL...cheers guys, hope all is well & your getting a lot more swell than we aren't atm...

Ted, with the soloshot 1 you basically have 3 parts to the kit. A little white thing you velcro to your arm which is a transmitter & a tripod which is receiving the transmission from that transmitter. You have to sync these 2 parts together so the tripod keeps pointed at the transmitter. You put your camera on top of the tripod & the tripod keeps the camera pointed at you (if you set it up right). Best thing is to put the camera on the tripod, focus the camera on an object you can stand in front of, walk to that object & then sync the transmitter/tripod by pressing a button on the transmitter....once that's done, I take the transmitter off & place it like 20 ft in front of the tripod & go & start the recording button. Otherwise it keeps moving around trying to point at you while you frantically run around trying to press the button (yes I was dumb enough to make this mistake & its probably why the camera was misaligned the first time).

So yeah, your continually recording & if its inconsistent like this day. Your going to have to edit out the nothingness. These were all the waves I had in just under 110 mins, so like 107.5 mins of footage on the floor, but ya gotta love digital hey

The soloshot 2 also has vertical panning & I think it also has a control to stop start recording. I know you can control zoom, so it would most likely have stop/start recording also. But for me a simple horizontal pan & editing out the nothingness is all good/NP.

You just fit your own camera than

Have you got suggestions on camera to get or what your using

Yep the camera sits on the tripod, you just gotta make sure its sitting square on by pointing at a landmark & standing in front of it when you sync.

I'm using a Panasonic Lumix FZ150, the upgraded model is the FZ200 which is also a great all round camera. However if you were buying a camera specifically for the soloshot. You'd want something with more battery time. Not to say the FZ150 does not, I'm getting just over 2hrs on 2 yr old frequentlty used batteries which is pretty good imo

But I havn't researched camera's for a long time, so I couldn't recommend any particular camera for any budget range atm. Soloshot seams pretty awesome though

Good work!

Great view Mick