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GoPro as a snake cam

shaggs2riches - 16-10-2011 at 08:55 PM

I'm in the middle of fishing in speaker wires for my home theater, before I go ahead and cut the holes in my basement ceiling for surrounds I want to make sure that the space I'm fishing into is free and clear of obstructions. Not sure how to figure this out, I realize that my path is more than big enough to fit my gopro camera. I pulled out an old 4' floor lamp unscrewed the lampshade, and threaded the tripod mount into its place. On goes the camera, turned on the lamp, and push it along into the open path, straight to were I want to see. After moving it around a bunch to see all angles, I pulled it out to inspect what I filmed. Almost perfect!!!!! I need to piece together a couple mounts, so that I can get the proper angle for viewing, none the less my tests proved successful. Thought that I'd share it with you guys, another use for the Gopro found. Thanks for reading.:thumbup:

Shaggs

AD72 - 16-10-2011 at 09:11 PM

I have not tried it yet but the latest firmware for the camera allows the video port to be used realtime. So you plug the camera to a screen, use it for inspection instantly and not have to record and download.

van - 17-10-2011 at 07:36 AM

I thought you wanted to mount a GoPro on a snake .. haha .. :lol:

cheezycheese - 17-10-2011 at 07:45 AM

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Originally posted by van
I thought you wanted to mount a GoPro on a snake .. haha .. :lol:


I think Kober did that already - his snake. Check out the latest video he made :roll:

Kamikuza - 17-10-2011 at 05:17 PM

Cool :lol:

Kober - 17-10-2011 at 07:43 PM

You so funny .....lol ,,,,
I use that angle all the time ..... that is only one place on buggy that I can mount camera and it docent shake .......lol ....

pyro22487 - 18-10-2011 at 12:23 AM

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Originally posted by van
I thought you wanted to mount a GoPro on a snake .. haha .. :lol:


Had to agree. I thought that I was going to see snake vision or something. Darn and I was so looking forward to snake vision.