POV.1 - short commute

[BentMikey]

I took the train yesterday, and skated up Grosvenor Place with the new helmet camera.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvEjqS_BmqY

 

[nilling]

good lord! that's some speed you get there BM, did you blast past that RLJ cyclist?

the guy at the zebra crossing looked totally confused

 

[HLaB]

Youtube is blocked at work unfortunately but if I remember I'll check it out later.

 

[GrahamG]

That's awesome - I was cracking up when you came past the RLJ!

 

[spindrift]

Are you, like, eight foot tall?

 

[BentMikey]

LOL! 110mm skates with pitch (raised heel in the boot), and camera on top of helmet.

 

[Mr Pig]

I was cracking up when you came past the RLJ!

Yeah, loved to have seen their face! :0)

 

[John the Monkey]

Quality looks pretty good - there's a slight "fisheye" effect though, I'm guessing the lens is a fairly short focal length. The sensor seemed to struggle a bit to retain detail in the "ground" part of the frame with a lot of sky in the frame too (more obvious at the beginning of the footage).

 

[Riding in Circles]

It is a wide angle lens so it will loose a bit at the edges with it being a short camera.

 

[snorri]

You gave the office gent at the zebra crossing a pleasant surprise by letting him cross before you.
Nice one.

 

[magnatom]

Looks interesting Mike. Will you be placing the footage somewhere in a more 'raw' format. Obviously youtube doesn't do it justice.

It does appear to have a slight fisheye, but for the purpose of a helmet camera when cycling I don't think that matters too much. What I want to find out is, how good is it a picking out registration numbers and what is it like in low light conditions.

 

[PrettyboyTim]

That does look very cool, Mikey. The sound wasn't great in sections, but I'm guessing that's a mixture of wind noise combined with YouTube's low bandwidth compression. As Magna says, it would be neat to see a little clip of it in its original format...

 

[hackbike 6]

Yeah must admit that was cool especially as you were passing all those cyclists.

Oh btw what is the camera model?

I like the way it pans around.Useful for mobile phone clowns.

 

[Piemaster]

I would really like to see 3rd person vid of that, bloke on skates charging up a bus lane past lots of traffic. Heh.

Seems to be a disproprtionate amount of 4x4 in the footage, is it typical and just my perception as there seem less on the roads here?

 

[Jaded]

Did you get the wide angle lens then?

I find that number plates are not always readable on the standard lens setup. (Mainly rural cycling, not up-against-the-bumper stuff like in town)

One great benefit of the POV-1 is that you can just get a different head for it if you want. e.g. if they bring out a more sensitive one for low-light, or if you want a different focal length - just buy a new head.

I can't see YouTube where I am just now, I'll have to wait a few weeks to see it, but did you upload it so you get High Quality too? (I think you know where to look to see footage uploaded that way )