Epic Wide Video Camera

[phylodog]

I bought an Epic Wide Video Camera to try out at the range. I was hoping to incorporate it into our training in various ways. I took it for a test drive yesterday to see how it worked and was a little disappointed in the video quality. It's not a high dollar camera so perhaps my expectations were unreasonably high but with technology as affordable as it is I think they could do better.

 

[IndySSD]

Glad your arm is healing up nicely!

I'd say that the image quality is ok at best but what bothered me more than anything was the placement of the camera because it doesn't show what you're looking at or what you see from the same angle.

 

[phylodog]

I had it mounted to the side of my hearing protection. It came with a couple different mounts that we'll be playing with to see what works best.

 

[fullauto 45]

Check out the GOPRO HD 1080 camera. I use one on the 4 wheelers and it is very nice and wide angle as well. Check them out on youtube.

 

[jayhawk]

Check out the GOPRO HD 1080 camera.

These little things are impressive.

 

[jeremy]

Interesting, very interesting...

 

[phylodog]

Check out the GOPRO HD 1080 camera. I use one on the 4 wheelers and it is very nice and wide angle as well. Check them out on youtube.

If it turns out that we find a place for this sort of thing in our training I'll definitely look into the GOPRO. I didn't do much research before I bought the Epic, probably should have.

 

[HICKMAN]

I use a cheap, waterproof Kodak ZX3 I got from Walmart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPaODfpuJ2o&hd=1

you can bump it up to 720 HD for even clearer picture.