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04OFF
Yeh it was actually raining a little, so hard to capture anything decent really, I knew you would know that track Troy, ive done it a few times before , but it was nasty on "wet" rock (lol)
Im used to the gopro now, and know what it can and can't do, ive also got a HD dash cam now, its in a fixed position, so will be able to capture stuff and know its at the right angle, and the battery wont go flat (also has a lower res rear cam, but the back window on a GU gets dusty so quick, a rear cam wont be much good off road)
When I ask people about their gopro, they always comment on how reliable it is "every time" the have used it, then I ask how often they use it ?, and the reply is normally ,oh about 2 or 3 times now (lol), know body seems to use one on a regular basis out in the feild, like every second weekend to capture everything exciting they may do, you don't see many people using them, or footage posted from a gopro, especially considering how many people have one, I mean, where's all the patrol action from the gopro owners on this forum, should be heaps of it, so I ask the question, why don't people use one when they paid so much for it ?
Mine will work mint in my lounge room, its when you get to the bottom of that really steep hill, every ones waiting for you, you want to video it, you need to set up the camera fast, that's when it will become a pain, and be more hassle than its worth wasting your time to get it up and running, so you end up giving up out of frustration.
Its a $500 camera, compared to any other electronics for $500 (cameras or otherwise) it is not that user friendly/reliable IMO.
If you can get it all set up, angled and working so you just have to hit record it works well, but, on standby it will eat the battery, so wont be long and you have to set it up again, these days I use mine in the same two locations (roof and drag link), this way I can guess the angle pretty well without any preview.
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