Camera mount for solo trips

[the gecko]

Who films themselves while fishing solo? Id love to see your camera setup. Im looking for ideas to mount a camera.

Is it all too hard on your own, or is it possible?

cheers
Andrew

[TheRealAndy]

Who films themselves while fishing solo? Id love to see your camera setup. Im looking for ideas to mount a camera.

Is it all too hard on your own, or is it possible?

cheers
Andrew

I have just been playing around with a gopro hd hero on my boat. I bought the motorsport kit for my motorbike, and it came with a huge suction cap mount that hangs onto the boat really well. I will post up some clips of lucinda and 1770 when I get back.

[Marlin_Mike]

Who films themselves while fishing solo? Id love to see your camera setup. Im looking for ideas to mount a camera.

Is it all too hard on your own, or is it possible?

cheers
Andrew


Mate I bought a little mount set up online earlier thsi year. Hard to explain, but will post a pic or the link to the site so you can see it. Works for me fine.

Mob was in Hong Kong cost me $11.00 posted from hong kong got it 1 week after ordering and paying for it.

Will post link to site tonight.

Mike

[Spaniard_King]

Have a look at this guys setup.. His name is Willo on here

he is the king of solo video

http://il.youtube.com/user/Willo20

[honda900]

Here is another one to try, tiny little camera that you can attach to just about anything, works great, and comes with a few different fixed mount attachments.

There are some youtube videos of the camera, attached to model airplanes. ;)

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=10093

Cheap as chips as well.

Regards
Honda.

[wayno60]

Still love watching willo get amongst em......

[cuzzamundi]

Head cams work great as well. Good quality footage and pretty cheap.

[Winf]

I use one of these http://www.digitalcamerawarehouse.com.au/prod5681.htm

and one of these http://www.digitalcamerawarehouse.com.au/prod23.htm

What would be really handy is a remote control but works ok.

Camera records in MP4 format though which I couldn't edit with moviemaker so I use this http://www.serif.com/movieplus/

Sometimes you capture something unexpected!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCrl6K5o6OY

Cheers

Winf

[Greg P]

Anyone have one of those Gorillapods??

[Willo]

This is a pic of the set up I use ,which is basically a camera Balljoint tripod mount fitted to a rail clamp system I made myself,out of a marine BBQ Rail clampand a water proof housing for the cam

And also a link to another system I am thinking about using ...The Fat Gecko....
Check out the vid of its application
http://www.fat-gecko.com/
http://www.delkin.com/products/accessories/fat-gecko.html
A wide angle lens for the Cam is also a good idea
Willo

[Heath]

Willo's setup is great !!!!!

You definately need a wide angle lense. 0.45x is perfect.
You will also need a polarised lense to cut down on glare.
Get the right size lense, don't use a step ring.
If an open boat then a water proof housing is a must, you can get away without one in a bigger boat, but the added advantage of the water proof housing is that you can easily throw the camera underwater if needed & I can tell you, there are times when you will. I use my underwater housing all the time, they are great.

And a long life battery won't go astray either... something that lasts about 7 hours will do.

Finally my mount. Made it myself from a few bits n pieces I had in the garage... an old busted tripod, an old alvey winch clamp & some gal tube. Mines about 8 years old now & still going strong. It out lasted the camera!!!!

[TheRealAndy]

This is a pic of the set up I use ,which is basically a camera Balljoint tripod mount fitted to a rail clamp system I made myself,out of a marine BBQ Rail clampand a water proof housing for the cam

And also a link to another system I am thinking about using ...The Fat Gecko....
Check out the vid of its application
http://www.fat-gecko.com/
http://www.delkin.com/products/accessories/fat-gecko.html
A wide angle lens for the Cam is also a good idea
Willo

Thats the same mount that comes with the go-pro, except mine only has one suction cap. I was surprised how powerful that suction cap is. It does have a few issues on the boat if there is any dried up salt, but a quick wipe down and it becomes a permanent fixture of the boat.

Th go-pro camera I have is wide angle. I am very impressed with it so far.

[murf]

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Sometimes you capture something unexpected!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCrl6K5o6OY

Cheers

Winf

that unexpected is a ripper :)

cheers Murf

[the gecko]

Some great setups there guys, thanks for the feedback. All the mounting brackets seem fine. I should have mentioned that I do a lot of night fishing up creeks for jacks, so I need a spotlight setup too.

When a fish hits, there isnt much time to flick a lot of switches......so can I get a combined camera spotlight that would suit? I dont wanna drop a fish while Im turning a camera on, so One Touch record and lighting will be essential. Maybe a helmet cam will be the go? Anyone done helmets?

Difficult challenge for solo, I know. I need a mate who will do the late hours and hold the camera.

cheers
Andrew

[Heath]

That's what the infra red night shot is for 8-);)

[Jabiru658]

I have just been playing around with a gopro hd hero on my boat. I bought the motorsport kit for my motorbike, and it came with a huge suction cap mount that hangs onto the boat really well.

^^^

This is what I did as well, there was a group buy on a motorbike website I read recently and I got a gopro hd hero. They work very very well, the casing is weather proof and that suction cap works well on the front deck of my tinny (as well as on the motorbike). I still put a safety line around it though just in case.

Not the sleekest looking camera but the video quality is simply the best available in the price range.

Highly recommended. I'm going to take the tinny out on Sunday so I'll take some videos and link them here.

[FishHunter]

I have a 3mp Go Pro and its a pos. I have modded the suction cup mount to work with this.
http://lumix.panasonic.com.au/products/Lumix/Camera/DMC-FT1

and this is in the post
http://lumix.panasonic.com.au/products/Lumix/Camera/DMC-FT2

[XtremeBoony]

hey guys, some very useful info throughout this thread, after doing some research found this one as well:

http://www.camzilla.com.au/

cheers fro boony

[gazza2006au]

for $20 u can pick up sunglasses cameras from ebay shipped from china and hong kong they record nice video it also takes still pictures the recoding time varies i only have 2gb card in mine but the battery is soppose to last 2 hours and charges by the USB port on your computer

[FishHunter]

hey guys, some very useful info throughout this thread, after doing some research found this one as well:

http://www.camzilla.com.au/

cheers fro boony

I bought one will be testing it on the weekend

[fishfeeder]

I have one that I bought from these guys, I got the fully intergrated one

http://www.launchhelmetcams.com.au

They have heaps of mounts also, I use it on my roadbike and dirtbike and the quality is fantastic...... I haven't tried it in the boat but will give it ago next trip.