One ounce ear mounted camcorder

[Inigo_Montoya 0]

http://www.looxcie.com/

Pretty neato.

http://www.pixiq.com/article/the-one-ounce-ear-mounted-camcorder

"It’s called a Looxcie (www.looxcie.com ) and records video and sound continually up to four hours. When you see something you like and want to either save it or send it to your social media, you hit a button and it saves the previous 30 seconds as a clip. Clips are time stamped and stored in a clip register as MP4 files. If you continually press the save button, it will send that clip to a predetirmined email account. That means you can see it and share it immediatley.

No fuss, no muss, no big camera to carry. In fact nothing to carry, it’s just attached to your ear! It’s not high definition; at the moment it’s 480 x 320 at 15 frames per second (FPS). Sure, that might seem small for now, but seeing how technology has moved in my lifetime, I expect to see an HD version of the Looxcie before long.

Actually, there are slightly bigger, and I mean slightly, HD mini camcorders right now, like the GoPro HD cameras (www.goprocamera.com) starting at under $300 with a version coming out soon priced at $179.99. They can record 1,280 x 960 at 30fps.

Make no mistake, these little cameras are game changers. It will change how people view the world and changes what we want to see. Scary, yeah in an “Orwellian 1984” kind of way, but at the same time exciting in a “what can we do and see next”, kind of way. Artists always seem to take technology like this is expand our visual boundaries.

I’m in the middle of writing a story here at Pixiq at the end of the week about my foray into video and I’m thinking if I wait a few days, it may already be outdated at the rate things are changing. The description of “Photographer” is changing fast these days and I think cameras like these and other technology changes will accelerate that change. I hate the term paradigm shift as it’s been so overworked, but I do think its the best way to describe what we will see again in the next few years in photography. This ain’t your daddy’s photography anymore. "

"I'm not young enough to know everything." O.W.

[Zlew 0]

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Actually, there are slightly bigger, and I mean slightly, HD mini camcorders right now, like the GoPro HD cameras (www.goprocamera.com) starting at under $300 with a version coming out soon priced at $179.99. They can record 1,280 x 960 at 30fps."

These "GoPros" do you think they could be mounted to a helmet and jumped for skydiving footage? If so, the next thing you know they will be alllll over dropzones and provide hours of HD skydive footage for the world to enjoy!



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[dqpacker 7]

dumb

[Hellis 0]

Im not very keen on ducttaping a camera to my head.
I think it would be rather painful pulling it of after every jump when the 4-way you videod wants to look at the video.

Just having it in the ear like a handsfree will not work, and you must jump without helmet.

[billvon 2,991]

>The description of “Photographer” is changing fast these days . . .

Not really. There have always been super cheap cameras that anyone can buy and use, along with the more expensive/higher quality versions. And there have always been people who knew how to use them, and other people who just pointed it in the general direction of the subject and pressed the button (and all points in between.)

[DSE 5]

Kinda funny how folks quote only resolutions. Resolution is only a quarter the story.

Photographers will always be photographers. GuitarHero doesn't make for "musicians" any more than a tiny camera makes for a photographer.

And in skydiving, the danger of a camera is more about the distraction than the physical object. The mental affect has more impact than the physical risk.

[377 22]

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Kinda funny how folks quote only resolutions. Resolution is only a quarter the story

I have a $100 Kodak 10 megapixel point and shoot. The cheap Kodak isnt bad, has a German Schneider-Kreuzer glass lens system, optical image stab. and 5x optical zoom. Shoots OK 720P video too with sound.

A friend has an $700 Nikon 8.5 megapixel SLR digital cam. I think its a D 60? We did some comparisons shooting the same scenes.

In bright sunlight the photos from the Kodak and the Nikon are nearly indistinguishable even when blown up a lot.

As scene light dims, the Nikon really pulls into the lead as the Kodak pix get grainer and noisier. Huge difference in low light conditions with the Nikon miles ahead in image quality and able to shoot without flash.

This stuff is ho hum to camera pros but it was an eye opener for me.

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2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

[DSE 5]

Imager size plays a huge role, internal DSP is critical, compression method/format/codec (video) makes all the difference in the world, glass is far and away more important.
Give me a 3.5Mp camera with great glass and a .25 imager over a 14Mp camera with plastic and a .06 imager...I'll be more happier.

[PharmerPhil 0]

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I have a $100 Kodak 10 megapixel point and shoot.... A friend has an $700 Nikon 8.5 megapixel SLR digital cam. I think its a D 60? We did some comparisons shooting the same scenes.

Same scenes? It's maybe not that skydive related for most people, but try a scene where you want to get a shallow depth of field. Or where you want off-camera flash, or bounced flash (or God forbid multiple flashes).

Or, for a more skydiving-like scene, try timing your shot for that brief instant when a fast 4-way team closes a point. Or when you want a burst of shots as a group exits a plane or a big-way completes a formation. Just saying,...

[The111 1]

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Photographers will always be photographers. GuitarHero doesn't make for "musicians" any more than a tiny camera makes for a photographer.

True, but to play devil's advocate, a "normal" person could pick up a cheap camera and take a fantastic shot, but he probably could not pick up a cheap guitar and play a crazy solo. Though, he might be able to write a catchy melody, which I guess is a fair comparison.

Again though, I have heard from the few professional photographers I've met that cheap cameras and micro stock photography sites are making the business a lot more difficult...

www.WingsuitPhotos.com

[DSE 5]

composition is composition, whether it's music or imagery, but your allegory is better than mine anyway.