GoPro or No?

[muddywings]

The reason I got in to shooting stuff....with a POV camera, is I was looking back upon my 20s and didn't really have any pictures or video of the cool/fun stuff I did whether it was for work or fun. Now it's rather nice to look back on a video and go, 'oh yea, that was a blast...remember when...that was cool...blablabla'
That being said, putting together a 'video' isn't as easy as GoPro makes it out to be with their little video display booth. Shooting a gun stage isn't that big of a deal because it is what it is, but splicing action sports together takes a lot of time. For instance, I mt bike a lot and just turning on a POV camera and letting it run for a 30 minute ride will get real boring to watch. You have to splice different camera angles together and make your clips no more than 10-12 seconds long or you'll fall asleep bored watching it. It's great for shooting mt biking rides but really, the videos aren't that entertaining unless they are your local trails that you can run different angles and setups. When I went to Moab, I shot with it only on my helmet and the videos come out less entertaining.
With that, you'll need a descent computer to run the video software. I run a MacbookPro with the iMovie software that comes with it.
The reason why I figured I'd jump in here blab for 5 minutes is because a know a lot of people who have gone out and bought one only for it to sit in the closet after the initial test run.

The below videos would be a regular 30 minute ride but probably took 3 hours with starting, stopping, setting up different angles, running different lines etc etc. After that, the video production could be anywhere from 1-3 hours.



With the infamous zipline mount:



Gun Stuff:




In the end, the reason why I like contour over GoPro is because of the positive on/off button and the slimmer profile. The only major benefit of the GoPro over Contour is the chestmount rig.

Good luck....