OK put me off after 2 GOPRO HD head cams that never worked
I have now seen the Contour HD 1080 going
for £ 230.00p UK so anyone got one and happy
with it!

Hi a freind of mine has one and uses it regularly to film D/H practice runs. It has good clarity seems pretty tuff and is small. Some of the footage is here…………

http://www.liamlittle.com/

and here

There is a nice quality to that video posted above, lighting wise at least. But it looks like the footage is suffering really badly from a rolling effect.

Big problem with them is that the batteries only last 2 hours of recording.
Toying with the idea of getting one myself.

I’ve got one it’s very good, light compact I have a second battery but not noticed an issue with battery life, when not in use it turns itself off which is good an preserves a bit of battery and it’s easy to use too.

If you buy from dogcamsports you’ll get excellent support should it be needed

Hi thanx for all the above
regarding the vid clips is your mate using a Class 6 memory Card.
If not that could be why hes getting the rolling effect.

Forge197 you got any vid clips.

Anyone got more vid clips or advice

Cheers 😉

One question whats there software like and is it easy
to use or what editing software you recommened to buy/use

Grantway, sorry to hijack the thread but have you sold the storm controls you offered in a different thread?
Quite interested if they are still avaliable.
Tim_j_price@btinternet.com
Ta
Tim

I’ve used the windows moviemaker with reasonable (considering it’s free) results.
It’s really easy to use and fine for YouTube type posts.
I only have a very cheep muvi copy camera and the results arent worth showing, this is more the camera than the software though.

I borrowed two of them to take footage in the alps. I don’t think they are as good as a gopro. You can’t mount them as a chest cam, the shape of them makes them harder to mount sometimes, I had one of their glue mounts fail resulting in camera damage, they take a special battery. The standard battery (AAA IIRC), of the go pro makes more sense. They suffer abit going from dark/light but the quality is pretty good. A waterproof over cover like standard with a gopro should be an essential upgrade to protect it. They are fragile. The on/off/film button is extremely hard to use with gloves and often takes a long time to start recording, resulting alot of frustration.

My video http://vimeo.com/14265264

I dont’ seem to have uploaded any 1080p videos yet!!

Nice vid clip solamanda
Yeah agree that they seem to be better But i have had two
when the first HD version came out and both never worked
First one i charged up and then set it up but then every
icon came on and froze and the replacement well the video
was julty GOPRO was no help.
Thats why im looking at the Contour to be honest.

But thank you for that input cheers