Originally Posted by subwoofer

I'm looking to start capturing video on various rides, so am looking for the various options available and some personal recommendations if you have tried out any of the possible choices.

It will be used for a mixture of day and night time and on and off-road routes, so need something that can cope with all of these scenarios.

Up to now, I've tried (rather unsuccessfully) to simply bike mount a normal compact digital camera, but have found this gave poor results.

Having done some searches on the forum the GoPro gets a lot of mentions and it seems that the Hero3 has made many significant improvements making it not really worth buying into the Hero or Hero2.

Before I make the final justifications to buy the GoPro Hero3 (which would have to be the Black version with its low light level performance, higher still picture resolution and remote control etc) are there any others I should consider?

Any thoughts, experiences, recommendations or advice?