The Go-Pro by HERO

I want to tell you about a fun little product that we’ve been using called the GoPro Camera, you’ve probably seen this. It’s just amazing! We’ve been using it on a lot of our shoots and it’s an actual little camera that shoots hi-def video, and it’s this little thing. But in this little package you can shoot full 1080p hi-def video and the beauty is, you can mount this anywhere. It’s in this underwater housing so it will go down 180 feet underwater, and it has all these crazy connections that you can mount it. We’ve just finished a couple of shoots with it because you’re always looking for new ways to tell a story, different angles you can get, and radical photography, and this camera is just amazing.

We just did a shoot on an airboat where we had this on the end of a 20 foot pole. As we were going along, airboat to airboat at about 40 mph, we could hang this out over the other boat. It has a radically wide-angle lens we utilized for some amazing shoots. We actually had the camera in the spray of the water coming from the airboat, pulled it out of the spray and came over the top of the boat, and the footage was just amazing. This camera never ceases to amaze me how great it is. It’s so cheap, about $300 and you can get great hi-def footage.

We were just up in Lancaster, PA on a farm, where we mounted the camera down underneath the wheels of the tractor, in the planter, so you can see all the wheels turning and the slicing as its planting the field. We are able to mount the camera where you would never put a very high-end, expensive camera, but this tiny camera you can put anywhere. I’ve seen shows recently, a car show, where they put five or six of these in different places on the car, and drive the car at 100 mph to get amazing photography.

This is the GoPro Camera. Not only does it shoot 1080p, but it shoots at 60 fps, and also at 720p at 60 fps, so you can do slow motion of water or anywhere you have high speed action going on. It also shoots stills and time-lapse photography and works off a simple SD Card that you can plug right into your computer.

This is a cool little device that we have been using recently to get some unusual photography.

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Pawdcast 01: “GoPro Camera” with David Nixon from DNP Studios on Vimeo.