New video of gliders racing 1000 ft above the desert

Here is the link to the GoPro Wi-Fi remote.
http://gopro.com/hd-hero-accessories...-remote-combo/

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/


"Papa3" wrote in message
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Go Pro is supposed to be releasing a wireless remot "any day now." That
will really make it useful for the sorts of shots we want to do...


On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:13:11 PM UTC-4, Brad wrote:
On Mar 20, 11:50 am, Bruno
wrote:
Excellent! was the GoPro inside the plastic case?

Brad

Thanks for the supportive comments everyone. It is so fun to share
flights with others. Yes, the GoPro was using the regular outside
plastic housing. I added an extended battery pack to the back of the
GoPro for around $50. Since a 32 gig card can handle around 3.5 hours
of video, it is always the batteries that die first. We'll see how
long the regular battery + extended will last together. I will be
thrilled with anything over 3 hours total.

Bruno - B4

Thanks for the info Bruno................I'm thinking of up-grading to
either the GoPro you are using, or the Drift HD that uses a wireless
remote. The thought is to be able to turn on and off the camera to
save storage and battery for the "exciting" parts of the flight. I
always seem to run out of battery power when I'm racing up and down
the ridges!

I think there is a wireless unit for the GoPro but am not sure about
that.

Brad

What's a little worrisome is the availability date was "Soon", then "February 2012," then "March 2012"... It may be worth letting someone else figure out the bugs in the first release :-)


On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 10:31:17 AM UTC-4, Wayne wrote:
Here is the link to the GoPro Wi-Fi remote.
http://gopro.com/hd-hero-accessories...-remote-combo/

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/


"Papa3" wrote in message
news:30427123.44.1332338384640.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbat19...

Go Pro is supposed to be releasing a wireless remot "any day now." That
will really make it useful for the sorts of shots we want to do...


On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:13:11 PM UTC-4, Brad wrote:
On Mar 20, 11:50 am, Bruno
wrote:
Excellent! was the GoPro inside the plastic case?

Brad

Thanks for the supportive comments everyone. It is so fun to share
flights with others. Yes, the GoPro was using the regular outside
plastic housing. I added an extended battery pack to the back of the
GoPro for around $50. Since a 32 gig card can handle around 3.5 hours
of video, it is always the batteries that die first. We'll see how
long the regular battery + extended will last together. I will be
thrilled with anything over 3 hours total.

Bruno - B4

Thanks for the info Bruno................I'm thinking of up-grading to
either the GoPro you are using, or the Drift HD that uses a wireless
remote. The thought is to be able to turn on and off the camera to
save storage and battery for the "exciting" parts of the flight. I
always seem to run out of battery power when I'm racing up and down
the ridges!

I think there is a wireless unit for the GoPro but am not sure about
that.

Brad

We all seem to be impressed with the quality and angle width of the
new GoPro Hero2 for recording our soaring. Please note that many
remotes to video recorders DO NOT turn the units on and off but only
start and stop recording. If that is the case with the new Hero2
remote then it won't help with battery life issues. You only have
around 1.5 hours of battery life. I have the extended battery pack to
get the record time up to around 3 hours but with it installed I don't
think you can also have the remote hooked up so you are stuck with
either a 1.5 hour battery life with only a start/stop recording remote
or a full 3+ hours of continuous footage with the extended pack....I
think: I haven't recorded for a straight 3 hours yet on the Hero2 so
it might be possible that it automatically stops recording after a
certain time period. I hope not. My old HD camera on video mode would
do that because it limited the individual file sizes so it would stop
recording after around 30 minutes. Was a real pain. Best is to "Set it
and Forget it!" but I guess we aren't cooking chicken in the cockpit
even though we sometimes feel like one.

Take care,
Bruno - B4

I've recorded on my GoPro Hero HD for 2.5 hours straight with no auto off. I think there is an auto-off function that can be set up via the menus but the default out of the box is continuous on mode.

Robert

On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 10:09:07 AM UTC-5, Bruno wrote:
We all seem to be impressed with the quality and angle width of the
new GoPro Hero2 for recording our soaring. Please note that many
remotes to video recorders DO NOT turn the units on and off but only
start and stop recording. If that is the case with the new Hero2
remote then it won't help with battery life issues. You only have
around 1.5 hours of battery life. I have the extended battery pack to
get the record time up to around 3 hours but with it installed I don't
think you can also have the remote hooked up so you are stuck with
either a 1.5 hour battery life with only a start/stop recording remote
or a full 3+ hours of continuous footage with the extended pack....I
think: I haven't recorded for a straight 3 hours yet on the Hero2 so
it might be possible that it automatically stops recording after a
certain time period. I hope not. My old HD camera on video mode would
do that because it limited the individual file sizes so it would stop
recording after around 30 minutes. Was a real pain. Best is to "Set it
and Forget it!" but I guess we aren't cooking chicken in the cockpit
even though we sometimes feel like one.

Take care,
Bruno - B4