Sunday, August 14, 2011

URI to Narrow River - ConnYak paddle 8.13.11 - "GoPro Hero" Camera "test"

Posted some photos from yesterday’s paddle from URI to Narrow River here: https://picasaweb.google.com/paddledude5/URIToNarrowRiverConnYak81311

The “experiment” with the suction-cup mounted GoPro Camera on the rear of the deck wasn’t perfect but fun to try – camera was on loan, I have to return it to my office traffic engineering department which uses it to record vehicle flow patterns, but wasn’t putting the waterproof housing to good use so I offered to “test it” for them. It was set to take just 1 photo every 60 seconds – on the paddle out it took roughly 150 photos (little over two hours) before the battery died (?) so no photos on the way back. Of these 150, only the ones on the link were marginally worth looking at. Key would be to get a taller mounting pole to get a wider view and to set it to take photos more frequently – the surf at Narrow River only had a few random shots. Ah well. Had a great time and a nice paddle back to the put-in with John.

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