The new hero 3 black has 3 FOVs and it includes one called narrow, only for the 1080p or 720p. If you want to shoot in 4k then you have to use ultra wide.

Nothing personal, but I have a hard time believing that, About a year ago, I tried to use my pns camera in car, and the gopro elsewhere. it worked alright aside from getting it to start recording, but for the brief 5 minutes or so that it worked, things appeared much faster than the same mounting spot with the gopro.

I thought the Iphone made me look slow, then realized I was slow!

On a gopro hero 3 silver and black edition and hero 2 in 1080p you have 3 field of view options narrow, medium, wide. On the original gopro hero IIRC you can only go to the narrow view on smaller resolutions, I believe it's at 720p or 960p. The gopro hero 3 white edition will only do medium and wide at 1080p. I had one of those cheap ebay keychain cameras but went to the gopro 2, and now the 3. I wouldn't bother with anything else now there is some other choices but you end up kicking yourself in the ass later. I had the 808 keychain camera, while it was cool and cheap. The battery life was less than 40 minutes, awkward to mount, no way to preview video, video quality was actually pretty good.

Go with the hero 2, or 3 silver or black. It's so much easier to find accessories, and it has spot metering which is great for when the camera is mounted to the rollbar. That way the camera only adjusts exposure for the center of the image, which is the track and not the interior of the car. If you get the hero 3 or 2 with wifi bacpac, you can preview your placement with an iphone or android device. Much more convienent than mounting it, shooting a test video and then unmounting and hooking it up to the computer to see what it looks like. Battery life is about an hour and a half but you can buy the extended battery bacpac or purchase spare batteries.

Here's a clip with medium fov gopro hero 2 mounted to my rollbar diagonal.


Suction cup mount to the door, medium fov

Mounted in bumper grill I think this was also medium

Just for the hell of here is the cheap ebay 808 #11 camera attached to the top bar of the rollbar with masking tape

808 in the bumper

It would be for me.

Assuming it would integrate nicely with the new GoPro.

I plan on going MS when I swap to an NB engine, so a few hundred more for DA would be great.

We've used a GoPro Hero2 HD for two seasons now. In my opinion they produce quite good video, especially for the price.

It isn't the relative speed that bothers me, it is how distant the objects in the center of the field of view appear. If I put it in the bumper mouth the car appears very fast, but it is difficult to judge how far away the car in front is, or even what it is sometimes.

I can get a 30 min session in and re charge before the next one but keeping it plugged in would keep the phone from heating up

Just ordered the HD3 Silver, should be here tomorrow. Got it for $230. It's not at all clear which mounts it comes with. Thanks GoPro. Hopefully something useful, they are ridiculously expensive and I don't want to drop another $30 per.

It tells you right here what it comes with.
HERO3 Silver Edition | Wi-Fi Enabled | Professional Quality HD footage

I left my secret decoder ring on your mom's nightstand. What does "Assorted Mounts and Hardware" mean?

With the hero 2 or 3 silver or black you can set it on the narrow view.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1362097497

Looks like 2 quick release, 2 adhesive, and whatever that other thing is. In your defense, this picture is up for ~2 seconds before it switches.

Yup.

Midpack, if you want a suction cup or rollbar mount you'll have to buy them separately.

The motorsports pack on the hero2 had the suction cup. I had to buy the rollbar mount.

Mind if I Ask where you got such a good price?

I figured as much. Really, I'm just bitching because it doesn't come with the mounts I want. I mean wtf, this is 'murica. That and their description is incredibly vague. Looked around briefly for a motorsports pack and only saw them for the HD2. Either way I'm stocked to have a real track camera that I own. Borrowed an HD2 last year but it sucks when other people's things fall off your car.

I tried the 808 "spy camera" route from a couple years ago. They are fun, unreliable and not worth the hassle. If the battery dies or SD fills up it might save the video file, or it might delete it; or just corrupt it. The charge indicators are either meaningless or just don'r indicate at all; and if you over charge the batteries then the life dramatically decreases rendering them useless. Oh and the cameras point in different directions between different fobs so you're guaranteed to not record what it's aimed at.

Bought it from an Ebay seller, it was posted on Slickdeals earlier this week.

That always happens when Collin is driving that tired 1.6. haha

Dude! It is tired... help me find a vvt engine :loser:

Hey, those of you using Harry's Lap Timer, quick question.

How much space used to store a typical 20 minute session with video? This is making me wish I had a 32/64 iPhone 5 vs a 16.