Hello! Today I'm going to be taking a look at using body mount with your GoPro camera.
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Capture the Action with Martin Dorey.
Hello my name's Martin Dorey and you are watching AdoramaTV. We're here today
at the Ultimate Adventure Center here in North Devon and we're going to be taking
a look at using body mounts with your GoPro today.
More specifically using the chesty harness and also
the wrist mount. Now I'm here with mountain border instructer
Danny, hi Danny how are you doing? Not too bad thank you.
Good, good and my daughter Maggie. Now Danny is going to be putting Maggie's through her
paces in a little lesson and then he's going to be showing us some moves.
Right guys, you ready? We're ready. Okay off you go.
Okay so while they go off and get some practice I'm going to talk to you
about the chesty mount. Now
this is a very simple piece of equipment that allows you to wear your GoPro on your chest.
It comes in two sizes
adults and junior, but actually because it's adjustable
it will fit someone of Maggie's size and also someone of my size so we're
just using one today
which is pretty cool. Now it's very easy to put on, you slip it on
really like a coat
over your shoulders and then
okay, there you go. It's actually really comfortable to wear
and the straps are elastic, fully adjustable and you know
you hardly notice you're wearing it. Now clipping on the camera
is very easy. Mount it on
a vertical quick release buckle and then
simply slide it in
click it into place, adjust the angle...
and away you go!
You might not think that the footage that you get from a chesty mount
will be that much different from say a head mount, but actually it will be,
and the reason for this is the way that you move when you're doing sport. Your
chest is going to be a much more stable camera platform
and say your head. Now if you're doing a sport like mountain boarding
you're going to be looking around you and your camera if mounted
on a helmet is going to be following what you see but
your body's going to move around a lot less so it's a much more stable camera
platform and to prove it,
we've mounted a camera on Danny's head
and on his chest, and we'll compare the footage.
So you can see the chesty footage is slightly smoother.
Now you might think this is a one trick pony of a mount,
but no of course it isn't, now what you could do is you can mount it back to front
and mount it on your back to get footage of someone following you
You could even flick the camera for the weirdest selfie ever!
Or you could even drop the camera to get a shot of your feet as you go over a jump.
Nice work Danny, okay that's it for the chesty, now we're going to take a look at using the wrist housing.
Right, now we've warmed up a bit, it's time to take a look at this
and that is the GoPro wrist housing. Now this is a really
useful piece of kit, if you doing sport where you need your
your hands, surfing or skiing
or kayaking, your camera is right there when you need it
and you can easy to get access to it
Let's give it to Danny and see what he does with it.
I'm going to put on your right hand,
and on the inside of your wrist so that you can get a nice selfie
and also use that to get some shots of
Maggie as you're going down. Ready? Go for it!
This is going to go on the outside of the wrist
so you've got a little bit more control.
See how this one goes.
Alright Danny, one last thing we're going to try with this just,
it doesn't have to go on your wrist, give me your hand, hold it in your hand
just grab it like that, it makes a really nice and safe handle for you, give that a go
and you can get to the buttons. Easy! Easy!
Alright, that's it for now I think I'll go and have a go myself!
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