@organic355: how do you find the mounts on your VHoldr? Mine seem really crap – very loose and wobbly. I think I’ll end up making my own.
-j
I agree. The bar mount is pretty crap. Designed for non OS bars you’re limited to where you can put it. I jammed some rubber in the screw hole to reduce the vibration. That helped, as does mounting the cam under the bar rather than over it.
The helmet mount seems OK on my Xen, due to the vent locations. It does need to be cranked down hard though.
I do get really variable results though – If you push the cam all the way in to the bar mount as you’re supposed to you get more vibration.
Some other experiences. Mine had the common “blurry centre” fault. I bought it from Tredz but they couldn’t check one in the UK and send it out to me until Contour had seen the camera, so I arranged to deal direct with Contour to speed things up.
It took 3 weeks to turn it round – I shipped it next day to the US. They dispatched one pretty quickly but didn’t fill in some forms correctly so it sat in a customs warehouse, and I got hit with a VAT bill and a process from hell to claim it back – I couldn’t be bothered! Up to that point they’d been pretty impressive customer service wise. I wouldn’t have minded if I hadn’t bought the camera specifically to take skiing with the kids which I couldn’t because of the screw up. Better UK support / RMA would make it a lot better. This may have improved in the last 10 months though.
I’ve also got the waterproof housing. I’ll be trying it on the board next month, but I noticed the plastic in front of the lens looks a bit discououred like it wasn’t moulded properly!
So a good to great cam, with very sensitive set up unless you’re using a sticky mount / goggle mount and some pretty poor accesories.