Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Lin Evans on May 02, 2007, 11:11:15 pm
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Hi Guys and Gals,
I just read an ad in the Denver Post about this cool little ruggedized camera for the active outdoor user.
It's called the "Hero" and straps to you wrist. It's a 3 megapixel camera with a fixed 48mm equivalent focal length F2.8 at ISO 100. Uses a secure digital card up to 2 gig and is waterproof and functional to 100 feet. It doesn't have a flash, but with a dive light still could be decent. I uses my little 2 megapixel Olympus C2000Z that way and got decent images at up to about 40 feet with ambient light and the dive light.
It has a pretty impressive movie mode. It shoots 58 minutes of VGA (640x480), is optically stabilized and from the video and other sports samples it seems to have a good enough shutter response to get action photos. It's extremely light and has a wrist attachment and other attachment gear plus some pending for helmet's, etc.
The company answered my email with questions about the camera very promptly (same day) and gave me a link for specifications. It's a California based company made up of outdoor enthusiasts who wanted a camera which wouldn't be in their camera bag when a shot opportunity presented itself.
Looks like a fun camera and definitely priced right.
Lin
http://www.goprocamera.com (http://www.goprocamera.com)
Specs:
http://www.goprocamera.com/dh3-specs.htm (http://www.goprocamera.com/dh3-specs.htm)
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I've seen the same thing in shops, didn't know whether it would be decent or not.
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My "buddy" used one of these on a trip to Turks and Caicos. It can take fun pics, but they are low resolution and aiming is a bit hit-and-miss.
See the results here:
http://www.autresdirections.co.uk/PHOTOS/2..._Fia/index.html (http://www.autresdirections.co.uk/PHOTOS/2007_Caicos_Fia/index.html)