Deep Fresh POW

More helmet cam testing

 It was dumping all last week and had the opportunity to go out Sunday. Hmmm what can I say, IT WAS FREAKING DEEP that`s what it was. We ended going up to Mt. Henning( Coquihalla Lakes Area) and good god it was insane. Everywhere you looked guys were stuck, on the trail, off the trail, it did not matter. Hell I got stuck going downhill it was so deep.

 

It could have been an epic day for me but unfortunately I had to ride a backup sled. What can I say it was and is a complete turd. It was so deep that the exhaust would clog up and it would drop a cylinder and well in that deep of snow leave me to the stuck gods. It was frustrating to say the least.  So finally giving up on riding I pulled out the cameras and let Paul play as I took some images.We also did some more testing with the Contour HD 1080P Helmet Cam.

So it could have been epic but in the end it was a fail for me. Guess I am a turbo snob. It is true though once you go turbo you will never go back. I have no intention of riding that 2005 900 King Cat ever again.

You Arctic Cat guru`s  have any insight on what can be done to make that sled run better feel free to comment below.

Thanks

Contour HD 1080p Helmet Camera

Well as you all know a while back I received my GoBandit HD GPS helmet cam. I was all excited for that camera because of the gps and skinning options for the gps info. In the end though the lack of options and more inportantly the poor video quality made me return it. Hopefully some software/firmware upgrades will fix it because I think this camera has potential.

I had to move on so I exchanged it for the Contour HD 1080p helmet cam. Now it does not have the options of the GoPro Hero HD and I think the hero footage is marginally better but not by much. I just preferred the design and ease of use of the Countour.

Here is a very boring video showing samples of the camera in action. It shows how it handles the brightness,transitioning from shade to bright  and at the end low light when the heli is dropping off the sled. The footage is straight from camera with no color grading etc. It was shot with the default out of the box settings in 1080p @30fps. I just wish the viewing angle would be a bit wider than 111degrees as compared to the 135 degrees when in 720p mode.

Youtube compression has degraded the footage a bit and some of the artifacts you see is not in the original footage.