Lowest Price GoPro HD Helmet HERO

I bought this from REI using the annual 20% member discount on a lark and it has turned out to be a great purchase.

The video quality is surprisingly good for such a cheap (relatively speaking) camera. The 720p is better than that from my Canon SD940IS, which does not even provide 1080p. There are many sample videos on YouTube from myself and others, just search for the product name.

I haven't used the still mode much, but the pictures do not seem nearly as good as that of dedicated still cameras (like the aforementioned camera).

I have not tried out the helmet mounts yet, though I did use the included head straps for a couple of videos. These turned out to be nausea-inducing, as I tended to turn my head a lot. I don't think the helmet mounts will be any better, as I would still be turning my head a lot in most sports.

I ended up ordering a GoPro Chest Mount Harness for HERO Cameras and the videos from that were much more stable.

I thought I would be using the 1080p mode a lot, but for the coxing videos I have been using this for so far the 720p wide-angle mode is much more suitable, you can see much more of the boat and the oars; also, at 60fps slow motion video would be much clearer.

The choice they made to leave out a display paid off in battery life - 2.5 hours of continuous on time is awesome! The control mechanism is fairly unfriendly, but you get used to it... not sure why they couldn't have put in a mode dial though, it wouldn't have been that much more expensive, even for the waterproof case part - Canon cameras have had this in their waterproof cases for many years.

I didn't even think about the sound, but after reading the product literature I have to say I agree with their comments about sound quality. Looking back over some other videos taken with still and video cameras I find that there is a lot of wind noise in most of them, whereas this camera in its waterproof case lets you hear ambient noise without the wind noise.

All in all, a great product. A little pricey, but great for what it does.
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