Windsurfing equipment

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Weird questions mate...
I do a lot of clipping for freestyle, tried 3 times on-board cameras, but too much spinning, one sees nothing useful.

But just to answer...

Gender: every woman I've been has always come back for seconds...

Age: old, but not acting my age.

Water depth: weird mate. You have to worry about nasty falls and shock a lot more than depth.

Material: not relevant. Make it sturdy.

Where: that question doesn't work, it depends what you're making the movie for. For Tube clips showing freestyle, I find none works. For straight sailing, most of them work, but then it gets boring to watch. Nothing like an outside view, which is basically 99% of all Tubes.

Finish, buttons: you're kidding, right? This sounds like a kitchen Tupperware question...

Battery life: longer the better. More than 1-2 hours.

Screen: you're kidding, right? I find looking back at movies on the peddly little screens don't work for outside cameras, let alone on-board ones.

Shots: gotta be video. Stills and 1-sec action shots are not useful with head cams or mast cams. It's hard enough to make useful videos with on-board cams...

$$: none here. I find they don't work again, personal opinion.

Hope I didn't rain on your parade, hope some of this was useful to your project.

Question 1:

What gender are you?
a) Male

Question 2:

What age group are you in?

e) 45-50

Question 3:

How many feet below water would you want the camera to withstand?
c) 20-30 feet (it's got to handle impacts into water at speed which do more damage than depth)

Question 4:

What materials would you prefer the camera to be made out of?
a) ABS
c) Polycarbonate

Question 5:

Where would like the camera to be mounted on?
a) Helmet
c) Windsurfing Boom
d) Windsurf board
e) Windsurfing mast

Question 6:

What kind of finish would you want the camera in?
Some thing visible if it comes of and floats in water

Question 7:

What material would you want the buttons to be?
a) Rubber



Question 8:

How long would you like the cameras battery life to last?
b) 3-4 hours
c) 5 or more hours

Question 9:

Are you going to use this camera just for windsurfing?
b) No

Question 10:

Would you want a screen built in with the camera?
b) No

Question 11:

What kind of battery would you want the camera to consist of?
a) Built rechargeable battery
b) AA batteries (to big)

Question 12:

What kind of photo shot would you take ?
a) Multi shot
b) Video
c) Automatic shot every 1 second
all of the above

Question 13:

At what level of windsurfing are you at?
b) Intermediate


Question 14:

What other cameras do you use for windsurfing?
a) Helmet GOPro hero camera (with fish eye lense)


Question 15:

How much money are you willing to pay for the windsurfing camera?
b) 100-500


Question 16:

How long do you want to be able to video record with the camera?
a) 1-2 hours
memory cards are good and cheap


The Gopro Hero (fish eye) is a good camera fairly easy to use get close to an hour out of a 2Gb memory card
$10 worth of AAA batteries last approx 1-1/2hr, that hurts.
The fish eye lense is good for stability of image, but loses a lot of feel in depth of field ie you can't really see how big the wave is or how choppy the water is. if you film someone by following the anything over 15m away seems miles away.
Weight is an issue, the GP is light but you still notice it hanging of your helmet.
The GP has a good selection of mounting brackets to choose from.