Hello today I'm going to be talking about housing basics,
quick release buckles, and mounts that come with GoPros
in this, the third part of our series about action cameras.
AdoramaTV presents; Capture the Action
with Martin Dorey.
Hello I'm Martin Dorey and this is AdoramaTV.
Today we are going to be looking at basic GoPro mounts
and buckles, and demonstrating them with this
Hero 3+ Black Edition, GoPro camera. When I was a film student
nothing like the GoPro existed. Cameras were huge
they used 16mm film, and if you wanted to put them on anything, you have to make the mounts yourself,
and in fact I spent the last few months in my college, in the final year,
building a special mount to go on a bike. Now what
was amazing with GoPro, is that now you can go online at Adorama,
you can buy one of these, a bike mount and you can put it anywhere on your bike,
it's incredible, I will look at this later on. But first,
let's look at some of the housing that comes as standard with your camera.
So the first housing we're going to look at is your standard housing. It's
waterproof,
240 meters and it will protect your camera against mud, dirt,
water, anything really useful. To get the camera out, open it up
it's quite easy grab the clip at the front, open the back,
and pop the camera out. Now, one thing to remember when you do close it up, but the
camera back in,
is that the seal here is all-important,
and if you are going in the water, run your finger around it make sure there's
no grit, or dirt
on that seal, or hairs, or anything like that to stop that from being a good seal.
Close the door up,
close the seal. Now the one thing about these housings
is that they are completely enclosed, so the sound
isn't always great because there's a barrier to the sound getting to the microphone.
The solution to this is to use a skeleton backdoor,
which is this. It's got holes in it and will let the sound travel through to the
microphone.
To remove the back door pull it off,
click the new one in place,
pop the camera back in, and away you go.
Another option is to use a skeleton housing, now this is the same, uses the same
skeleton
back, but it also has holes in the sides. Now that will allow you access
to the HDMI and to the USB ports
and you can plug a microphone in there and also will allow the sound to travel
better to the microphone.
Again it's not waterproof, it's not dust proof,
and it's not dirt proof. So if there's any danger in getting
any dirt or water on this, don't use this housing.
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Next mounting your camera.
Your camera will come with
two mounts, and two quick release buckles.
The mounts are: there is a curve mount,
one is a flat mount, it's quite self-explanatory. Your curved mount
will be used for mounting on to things like this helmet,
you can see it's a curve surface, so you get a better adhesion on to that.
Now the buckle, is a standard buckle,
and a vertical buckle.
Vertical buckle is exactly what how it sounds, it's for mounting your camera
on a vertical surface, like this helmet.
So what you do as you slide the buckle
into the mount, until it clicks and you're there.
Now to mount the camera on there, place your GoPro
on the top, using a thumbscrew,
screw into place like that.
Now its this rig that I used
when I went to surf the Severn Bore
in the UK, and I got some fantastic shots.
The other great thing about this rig is that you can use it
to take a selfie just by moving the camera down,
and this is exactly the same way I had it when I went on Europe's longest zip wire
in North Wales this summer, and I think you'll agree the footage is fantastic
Okay so we have time to have a little bit of fun. I'm going to show you just how easy it is
to mount your GoPro camera using a standard quick release buckle,
a flat mount on this skateboard and we will get some fantastic angles.
First of all, I need to see what the shot is going to be, so I'm going to switch on
the wifi, see the blue button flashing,
I'm going to pair it up with my iPhone,
and then switch the camera on using the app,
which will then give me a preview.
Slide the camera into the mount,
until it clicks, now.
I'm going to stick the camera underneath,
somewhere here,
and I can see from the preview what kind of a frame I'm getting. I want it to be
somewhere behind the wheels like that,
give me something really interesting to look at. Now the thing about this here
is that this shot you can see it's upside down,
so what I can do in a very clever little part the software here,
is I can flick that, the upside down button,
and it will turn it the right way up, so I can now see my picture right way up,
and I think I'm going to mount it roundabout there.
So, next thing to do is to peel off the back
of my mount,
put that somewhere safe.
Place the mount
on the skateboard there like so. Isn't that fantastic.
We are now,
absolutely ready to go with a wonderful angle
hit record, and away we go.
Okay, so the final mount, remember this from earlier, it's the bike mount.
It's fantastic you can mount it here, here,
here, pretty much anywhere or a bike to give me some really,
really interesting angles, and I'm going to do it to give myself a little bike selfie,
here we go.
Okay that's it for now
next time we're going to be looking at setting frame rates and resolutions
in the studio, and after that we're going to be strapping this little thing
to anything and everything we can find.
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