Headcam

[vig]

Does any of you technophobes out there know of an headcam that would be compatible with a sony handycam?

I was thinking of doing a course review in video mode seen from the golfers eye rather than the panoramic shots.

I'm not looking to shelve out something ridiculous like £900.

 

[USER1999]

I think head cam shots will make the viewer feel very dizzy. Give it a go by all means, but I think it is destined to be a bit puke making.

 

[madandra]

You could ask your local parachute club where they get theres from as almost every club offers jumps that are recorded for posterity.

 

[brendy]

Vig, most camcorders and digi cams are at best 30 fps, this makes for a choppy video when not mounted on something solid. You might be better getting a tripod and doing it film style.

 

[TonyN]

What about something like this VIG

http://shop.gadgetsnfun.com/products/ore...CFRpUEAodny0D2g

 

[vig]

That may do the trick.
I was thinking on the lines of a small unit strapped to my head that I could give a golfers eye view of the course. Probably filmed 3 - 6 holes at a time.

This idea came about when I looked on the website for my course and thought that it didn't actually look like that. Still pictures just doesn't do a course justice.

Then I thought, i could do this at other courses and build up some sort of library.

It's going to be a long winter, just something to keep me going

 

[vig]

Vig, most camcorders and digi cams are at best 30 fps, this makes for a choppy video when not mounted on something solid. You might be better getting a tripod and doing it film style.

I have a sony camcorder with hard drive and thought I might as well make use of it. Don't know if i could be ar$ed carrying a tripod around.

 

[John_Findlay]

I was looking to buy one for my ski-ing holidays, vig, and was thinking about this one.

http://www.sports-camera.com/?gclid=CLK4j7Hq4JYCFQZ3MAodVX0cOg

Think it works so long as you have AV in socket on your camera. Unfortunately my old video camera didn't so I didn't bother.

 

[vig]

Thanks for that John. I wiill give these a ring to see if theu can advise me.
I think mine has an AV