what about the velcro strap thingo that you put around your centre strut with the go pro housing attached.......or is there a specific reason you want it attached to your lines?
yeah their alright for still shots but video is too wonky.. anyone with any solutions?
The centre line mounts do seem to spin and bounce around a lot unless they are stabilised against the rear lines.
Whatever you do though make sure you don't disable your safety in the process of hooking up the cam mount, and understand that having more things for lines to potentially get tangled on is generally a bad thing.
Cheers for the "replies"
I know the pros cons of the line mount, what I'm asking is dose anyone sell them in Perth, all I can find is buying them thu kite power coming from the eastern states which are currently out of stock, would like to get it a bit quicker if possible
from hawaii dunno how long that would take.
from hawaii dunno how long that would take.
How much should I inflate the kite I do it till it is hard to pump then bit more
Btw I am still learning
I agree that the kite hero line mount is great for pic's but the video is absolutely shocking. I have seen away to improve it, just haven't been motivated enough to bother.
Here's some pic's using the kite hero with the HD wide.
I can't even watch my video attempt, it's that shacky and all over the place I think it will me me sick.
Pretty sure the stabilisers connected to the outside rear lines are via rings etc so the rear lines can still run through. Just prevents twisting?
In my experience the centre stutt one works quite well and doesnt seem to shake that much .....by far the most annoying factor is not being able to watch the vids without editing as the image is upside down on one tack....so you end up watching normally then standing on your head to watch the tack back then normally again......... watching a days kiting is to be accompanied by several beers and the constant image rotation has people begging to turn it off...
After a bit of head scratching I rigged up a line mount for the Ozone 2010 bar using standard GoPro bits and an aluminium spacer.
It's pretty ghetto, but it works. The front line safety still works too. And it's got a camera leash.
Got at least one nice shot from the first session. Still hadn't got my hair wet.
For those interested here's a pic of the kite hero line mount I use.
Just to give you an idea what the results are like, here's a 30 second clip of footage taken on a recent trip. This is probably the only watchable bit I got, The rest of the stuff is unwatchable due to the camera being all over the place due to no stability. So keep that in mind if your mainly after a line mount for Video guys.
I once used the Oregon Scientific cam; it a small waterproof video cam that you can attach to one of your kite struts but found the image was OK but a bit far away, it was very stable though when we tried to attach it to the lines or on a head came it became very blurry, the other problem with it was you can only turn it on and off by bring the kite down to the ground. The good thing is they are quite cheap, ALDI was selling them and also Ebay has them
The centre line mount works great. Yeah, you do get the occasional odd photo...
But it's generally pretty good:
(My standard def clearly not as good as the new GoPro HD version though...)
