Traded the Potato Camera for an Ancient Gopro

I asked for and received good Gopro advice from Swooshdave and Mike Tyler.
It seems the GoPro 8 is a worthy model, while the GoPro 9 can be problematic.
The new GoPro 10 sounds great, but we might want to wait a bit to see if they fixed the 9 bugs.
In any case, it's about $1,000 CDN by the time you add the media mod and other bits.

So I bought an old GoPro Hero 3 Black for $30 with accessories. It works quite well! The newer cameras have video stabilization, this one does not
After watching countless hours of YouTube Gopro mc videos by GoPros 1 to 10, I actually like the non stabilized video better. It's more like the actual experience of riding.

And I couldn't really see any great difference in video quality from the 3 on, although that is likely due to my ancient TVs limitations.
Anyway, it's better than the potato cam that was used in my previous video attempts
Here is a run up Dyno Hill as requested earlier. No GPS fitted as I have the numbers for this bike& exhaust already.

Cool Glen!

Can you show us a pic of it mounted on you?

I’m well behind the curve on this stuff but it would be nice to ‘get with the program’ !

Mike suggested that the chest harness mount worked as well as anything so I used that for this clip.
The chest harness came in a 216 PC mounting kit I purchased for $40.
It works but I suspect the GoPro " Chesty" is of higher quality.
I have a Skeleton case and external mic adapter coming today via Amazon.
This should give better sound, although the sound on this clip seems reasonable, much less wind noise than with my smartphone camera.

I see if I can take a selfie with the camera mounted.

Glen

By comparison, here's the little 650ss doing the same, only with third gear used rather than 4 th.
The 650 is has 4.2 to 1 overall gearing whereas the 850 has 4.6 to one. Also there is a fifty pounds weight difference as the 650 is about 20 lbs lighter than even a standard 750 Commando.
So it's not a great comparison at all.
But it does love to rev!
Herb Becker had a hand in that.



Here is the harness

Guess the locals must be used to you by now
650SS sounded good

Burgs

Video sure flattens hills out. I was expecting to see a wall of a climb.

Thanks for the camera review. The video quality looked good to me.

I was surprised at that too.
The hill is a bit of a mini mountain in reality. The grade varies from 12 percent to about 14 by my calculations. It is a very steep hike.
The steepest mountain highway grades in BC/Washington/Idaho are 7 or 8 percent.
There could be a camera setting that needs to be turned on or off to show the proper perspective in that dimension. There are scores of settings. I haven't messed with any of them yet. Still trying to figure it all out.
I was just glad to see the video came out clear. The audio not so much, will work on that.
Some of the GoPro videos pixelate, even those done on the latest versions. I think that is the correct term. The video breaks up into a million pieces then comes back together again. Hard to watch!

Glen

12 percent. You should get out there on a bicycle.

Same thing with still cameras pointed up a hill. Looks like flat ground without some sort of reference indicating slope. Probably need a drone shooting from the side at about 50 yards to show how steep the hill is.

Pixelization is annoying. Your video looked great though.

The muffled audio didn't bother me. If you had a wind filter running that might be why, but I didn't miss not hearing all kinds of distracting noises.