Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Ride to Aspen
I thought I would test YouTube as a way of posting short videos since the Blog restricts uploads to 10MB. The video below is 30MB.
This video clip of my ride to the Maroon Bells in Aspen, Colorado on Memorial Weekend 2006 was taken with my Canon Powershot A75 Digital Camera. The camera was held with my clutch (left) hand at speeds up to 60 mph while balancing and steering, not to mention dodging bicyclists and oncoming traffic. Now you can see the need for having mounting systems for our cameras! If I weren't such a stud, this video would've been much shorter and shown a lot more gravel.
This video clip of my ride to the Maroon Bells in Aspen, Colorado on Memorial Weekend 2006 was taken with my Canon Powershot A75 Digital Camera. The camera was held with my clutch (left) hand at speeds up to 60 mph while balancing and steering, not to mention dodging bicyclists and oncoming traffic. Now you can see the need for having mounting systems for our cameras! If I weren't such a stud, this video would've been much shorter and shown a lot more gravel.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Filming our Trip
One challenge that we've been faced with is how to film our upcoming trip. We originally discussed helmet cams because of their size and versatility. But because helmet cams are merely peripheral units, they require a recording device, i.e., camcorder (negating the advantage of a helmet cam's size). The good news is that Peter already owns a camcorder. The bad news is that I do not. However, in researching helmet cams, we soon discovered that not all camcorders are compatible with all helmet cams. There is still the possiblity that Peter's camcorder will not work with the helmet cam that we deem acceptable. So this could potentially be bad news for Peter as well. In addition to purchasing 2 helmet cams, we could potentially be looking at buying 2 new camcorders. It begs the question, do we really need helmet cams? Once the trip is over, how much use will we really get out of them? (But man, are they cool!)
Although we haven't ruled out helmet cams, we have shelved that issue for the time being. We are exploring the idea of simply mounting our camcorders to our bikes directly using mounting products from PanaVise, Ram Mount, or Ztechnik, for example, or even fabricating a custom mount. Now that the riding season is upon us, we will soon be experimenting with mounting the camcorder in lieu of helmet cams as a viable alternative.
Keep in mind that our intention is to bring you our experiences on a daily basis. This poses a whole new problem - one of editing and uploading video files to our blog. We are not traveling with a camera crew. We are the camera crew. I anticipate it will be quite the undertaking to have the energy at the end of each day of riding to faithfully post blogs, photos and videos. Therefore, the solution to our filming and mounting dilemma will have to be as simple in the post production process as well!
Although we haven't ruled out helmet cams, we have shelved that issue for the time being. We are exploring the idea of simply mounting our camcorders to our bikes directly using mounting products from PanaVise, Ram Mount, or Ztechnik, for example, or even fabricating a custom mount. Now that the riding season is upon us, we will soon be experimenting with mounting the camcorder in lieu of helmet cams as a viable alternative.
Keep in mind that our intention is to bring you our experiences on a daily basis. This poses a whole new problem - one of editing and uploading video files to our blog. We are not traveling with a camera crew. We are the camera crew. I anticipate it will be quite the undertaking to have the energy at the end of each day of riding to faithfully post blogs, photos and videos. Therefore, the solution to our filming and mounting dilemma will have to be as simple in the post production process as well!
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95 days and counting!
we're getting close to lift-off. A lot of work left to do though.
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