Well, I ordered a GoPro HD camera for my plane last weekend from Amazon.com. This is a pretty good 1080p/30fps or 720p/60fps HD camera that records to SD card in MPG4 and has a light lion battery and waterproof case plus a ton of helmet and vehicle mounts. Planning to run it as a separate feed/local recorder for now. There is talk that they are planning to have a FW update that will allow it to output composite standard def video while recording HD, which would be AWESOME (there are some tricks to being able to do this now, but it isn't real friendly).I don't have as beautiful scenery as this guy, but this gives you an idea what the GoPro HD can do (it would be best to watch on Youtube and click widescreen and 720p):
Hi Jeff, thanks for sharing. I read through your blog and it looks like you are making good time on your FPV projects. I'm moving quite a bit more slowly, so this is good encouragement. Good luck with your projects.
ReplyDeleteJust a note for folks on this camera...it has ALL SORTS of compatibility issues with various SD and uSD card vendors. I've seen countless posts of problems with Lexar and other cards (just with this camera). My own experience with some of our (Micron's) own internally built Skymedi controller 16GB cards is they don't work. At all. But work fine with every other camera I have, even doing HD video. They are class 6 and should work. Also, the same solution with only 8GB works ok in the GoPro...so, just be ware. There have been screams and rumors of a firmware fix for the GoPro for months now...
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