Saturday in the Mountains

[emptysea]

There's MG, snapping pic after pic of the Pacific coast with his Polaroid. Unable to grab each pic as it slides out of the front, they are blown from his speeding motorcycle and buffet and tumble down the highway like so many fallen leaves, only to be found months later by beachcombers who speculate that a time-capsule must have been buried 40 years prior on the very spot on which they are standing. So they dig. And dig. And dig.

[Griso Guy_imp]

Great ride report and I love the look of your black CB. Is that a road comet fairing? I have a red one on order from samurider and I am impatient for it to make landfall. Now about cameras, I had a Go Pro for a few years but I sold it to a guy on the Griso forum. IMHO It was the most counter intuitive thing I ever owned. You cannot adjust on the fly as the window that shows the settings is almost unreadable in bright daylight. Additionally the settings icons are confusing. Well enough about the Go Pro. About six months ago I got a Replay Action camera, $150 for the kit. Much more user friendly an aluminum tube about 3 inches long, simple controls and an easy to user PC interface. I record videos and take single pictures, mostly for my own viewing. Once in a while I post a vid on Facebook but that's pretty rare. I have both helmet and bike mounting points.

[metallyguitarded_imp]

Great ride report and I love the look of your black CB. Is that a road comet fairing? I have a red one on order from samurider and I am impatient for it to make landfall. Now about cameras, I had a Go Pro for a few years but I sold it to a guy on the Griso forum. IMHO It was the most counter intuitive thing I ever owned. You cannot adjust on the fly as the window that shows the settings is almost unreadable in bright daylight. Additionally the settings icons are confusing. Well enough about the Go Pro. About six months ago I got a Replay Action camera, $150 for the kit. Much more user friendly an aluminum tube about 3 inches long, simple controls and an easy to user PC interface. I record videos and take single pictures, mostly for my own viewing. Once in a while I post a vid on Facebook but that's pretty rare. I have both helmet and bike mounting points.

Thanks Griso! The fairing is actually the WM Aluminum Cowl that I ordered from Mr. T at Samurider and then had powder coated black. I think the Road Comet looks great too and almost went that route. I decided I wanted something even more minimalistic. In terms of practical benefit, I'm certain the Road Comet is leaps and bounds better than the cowl I have. At first I was under the impression that it was as if I had never added a windscreen at all. I've since changed that opinion to believing it provides a little protection.

My thought on the GoPro was to simply wear it on a chest harness, just set it to wide angle and go. I was hoping it had a simple on/off button that I could push along the way. I'll definitely look into that Replay Action Camera you have. GoPro seems to be the industry leader but I don't need anything fancy. In fact, the simpler, the better!

There's MG, snapping pic after pic of the Pacific coast with his Polaroid. Unable to grab each pic as it slides out of the front, they are blown from his speeding motorcycle and buffet and tumble down the highway like so many fallen leaves, only to be found months later by beachcombers who speculate that a time-capsule must have been buried 40 years prior on the very spot on which they are standing. So they dig. And dig. And dig.

At least one philosophy surrounding the Polaroid is the idea of snapping a photo that you can then immediately give to the subject. My problem is that I want to keep them for myself! I have this romantic notion of riding across the country, meeting new people and taking photos of them with my Polaroid. In this recurring daydream, I leave the photos with the people I meet. As the years pass, they'll stumble across the photo and say, "Hey! Remember that guy we met who rode that black Honda? Boy, was he weird." Or something along those lines.

[the Ferret]

One of the guys on another forum and I were discussing this...go pro vs digital point and shoot single shots... and he said he can select single shots out of his videos for viewing he just has to look thru a few thousand photos to pull out the ones he wanted from each video because (and I dont remember the numbers) the video takes x amount of frames per second times the length of the video. With the digital you can snap pics anytime during a 6 hour ride that you see a good view or object and only take pics of the interesting stuff. Viewing 6 hours of video frame by frame to pick out a few pictures of interesting stuff would be a daunting task I would think.

I dunno? I don't do video. Maybe someone that does can explain better.

[metallyguitarded_imp]

One of the guys on another forum and I were discussing this...go pro vs digital point and shoot single shots... and he said he can select single shots out of his videos for viewing he just has to look thru a few thousand photos to pull out the ones he wanted from each video because (and I dont remember the numbers) the video takes x amount of frames per second times the length of the video. With the digital you can snap pics anytime during a 6 hour ride that you see a good view or object and only take pics of the interesting stuff. Viewing 6 hours of video frame by frame to pick out a few pictures of interesting stuff would be a daunting task I would think.

I dunno? I don't do video. Maybe someone that does can explain better.

Well, you see, capturing frames from a video is no more difficult than understanding the relationship between horsepower and torque, taking into account air/fuel ratios and rpm along with drivetrain, available traction, and vehicle load to calculate how long it will take for me to travel a quarter mile with a reflashed ECU. Simple.

[emptysea]

I like your "Leave a Polaroid" idea a lot, MG. I think that would be cool. Now you need to come up with a combo polaroid-digital camera so you can have a photo for yourself and leave one behind. Or, just use two cameras, I guess, but what's the fun in that? LOL

[the Ferret]

One of the guys on another forum and I were discussing this...go pro vs digital point and shoot single shots... and he said he can select single shots out of his videos for viewing he just has to look thru a few thousand photos to pull out the ones he wanted from each video because (and I dont remember the numbers) the video takes x amount of frames per second times the length of the video. With the digital you can snap pics anytime during a 6 hour ride that you see a good view or object and only take pics of the interesting stuff. Viewing 6 hours of video frame by frame to pick out a few pictures of interesting stuff would be a daunting task I would think.

I dunno? I don't do video. Maybe someone that does can explain better.

Well, you see, capturing frames from a video is no more difficult than understanding the relationship between horsepower and torque, taking into account air/fuel ratios and rpm along with drivetrain, available traction, and vehicle load to calculate how long it will take for me to travel a quarter mile with a reflashed ECU. Simple.

Ahh crap. Nevermind.

I'm getting dressed and going for a ride. First time I said that in 21 days lol

[Griso Guy_imp]

One of the guys on another forum and I were discussing this...go pro vs digital point and shoot single shots... and he said he can select single shots out of his videos for viewing he just has to look thru a few thousand photos to pull out the ones he wanted from each video because (and I dont remember the numbers) the video takes x amount of frames per second times the length of the video. With the digital you can snap pics anytime during a 6 hour ride that you see a good view or object and only take pics of the interesting stuff. Viewing 6 hours of video frame by frame to pick out a few pictures of interesting stuff would be a daunting task I would think.

I dunno? I don't do video. Maybe someone that does can explain better.

The Replay has a simple switch that allows you to switch from video to still photography. I have pulled still pictures from video but it's time consuming and tedious.

[Cormanus]

There's MG, snapping pic after pic of the Pacific coast with his Polaroid. Unable to grab each pic as it slides out of the front, they are blown from his speeding motorcycle and buffet and tumble down the highway like so many fallen leaves, only to be found months later by beachcombers who speculate that a time-capsule must have been buried 40 years prior on the very spot on which they are standing. So they dig. And dig. And dig.

What a wonderful image you created ES!

As to the 'Leave a Polaroid' notion, maybe the ever-inventive MG can come up with a Polaroid that produces two prints of every shot. I suppose an easier solution would be to carry a tiny colour printer and print a copy of the digital image to leave behind. The quality is likely to be about the same as the Polaroid.