Originally Posted by R. Danneskjöld
No, the best would be to skip the bullet/lipstick camera and use a camcorder.
If you decide to accept the lower quality video supplied by bullet/lipstick cameras then at least capture to tape, rather than a hard drive. Hard drives heavily compress the video and the resulting footage is more difficult to edit, in addition to being lower quality.
Actually you can get broadcast quality bullet cams and alot of the footage in lower budget MTB films (Early Drift Series, late Mud Cow Series........ actually maybe it's just an Aussie MTB movie thing
) is shot onto a Digital medium, not film. With the right equipment it can be cystal clear. As for just the type of shooting videos for mates to see recording to a Digital camera in your back pack or HD would be fine.
Originally Posted by R. Danneskjöld
That look-back footage is very cool
Yeah I love that camera, if you can get your hands on Drift 2: A new Race, there is an awsome section where someone is dirt jumping with one, the whips he pulls look amazing on the look back. Also Adam Smithson in Drift 3 is absolutely pinning it down an Aussie DH track called Amazon with one on his head, the camera really highlights how much body control is needed in DH. Also you learn the dangers of these cams when you see the footage from one of Sam Hill crashing, his head hits and the boom doesn't allow him to roll, his head stays still and his legs scorpion over his body, I reckon he was lucky not to get neck injuries.