Originally Posted by
KraneXL
A voice activated gopro or similar. Just don't mount it on your head if you use it for video unless you want to give your viewers vertigo.
A chest mount is inexpensive, makes a perfect vantage platform, and is easily accessible whether by hand or voice activated. I actually had my chest mount for 3 years (used it once when I first bought it) before I figured out how great it was at taking video.
I don't personally use my gopro that much for stills though, I have other cameras I prefer to use for that.
Nothing wrong with mountin a Gopro on a helmet. This vertigo bit is absurd.
The suggestions so far do not address the issue of framing the images while not looking through the camera because it is perched on top of one's head. Unless, of course, your photography technique is "spray & pray".