No need to spend big bucks on a helmet cam. Here's my Canon IXUS in a $30 aquapac strapped to my head with some hat elastic. Lot of fun!



P.S. The actual quality is much better than shown on the link. Seems YouTube must do some pretty severe video compression.

Hey nice that looked prity good. Much betta than spending couple of hundred on a waterproof camera. However one of my mates at school spent about $300 on his new digital camera which is waterproof, and takes that out when his waterskiing a lot. Same sorta thing i spose.

bubs

Yeah i was expecting a gybe in there somewhere aswell . Would have looked good.

bubs

Harrow, what's the board you are running, year, volume and style JP
Those loft sails look OK

Mineral

Harrow how come you're grip is so far apart? Do you like holding up near the mast or are you're lines too far forward? Do you like holding so far back with back hand or is sail unstable? Or were you overpowered/worn out?... since you showing you're technique to the world

Do you have pics of you're cam setup? Came out a bit better than I expected, almost better than some early pryde videos . Time to film a bit more and waste some hours on moviemaker.

mkseven, hah, I knew someone would pick at my technique! You think it came out well? The YouTube version is total garbage compared to what I got from the camera. Basically it is TV quality. Camera setup was simple. Camera in aquapac, sitting on top of bicycle helmet with heaps of hat elastic wrapped around and around. I walked around the house testing it to get the angle right.

firiebob, with all the elastic tying the camera to my bicycle helmet, way to hard to push the tiny button on and off while going along. Saw your still avatar a few days ago, but lol after seeing the animated version.

mineral1, 2003 JP 84 litre FSW. Great board - pinny tail with a long straight section. Great for flying through the chop.

nice 1 harrow, i use a ixus 60 in the water housing to suit ($299) this in turn fitted to a gath hat via a 1/4 ss bolt cut down and protruding through the top of the gath into the tripod fixing.(used a dremel to cut another slot)
then i use 2 additional cable ties for good measure. the advantage of the propper housing is you can easily operate the 'on' button then the shutter release to capture footage to your hearts content, obviously the disadvantage is the cost of the housingespecially if the camera s..ts it self and their not being made in more.
your right about the quality of the footage it is very close to tv and a large file size to go with it.if you want to see a pic of the set up let me know. here is a clip of slowboat using the above mentioned set up keep in mind this clip has also been downgraded for net viewing.
http://www.kasail.com/windsurfing/videos.html -click on Chris 39 knots

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Originally posted by bubs

Are you not meant to have your hand that close to the mast because thats what i do?

bubs

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Don't like the word "meant", hand close to boom will help you depower in very tricky / overpowered conditions. But for normal sailing having hands at shoulder width will allow you to get maximum distance from rig, hence more leverage over it, and more power.
If harness lines are set correct for the sail, this should mean hands next to harness lines, on the outside of them.

correct- carbon art speed 44 good for at least 48knots

well almost mk... you were born a girl..[}:)]

Ah but a girl who beat you in the Movember contest