It's intended for gun nuts but when I watched it I immediately thought of power kites.

Looks like he sank an 8mm screw through the hard plate on his hockey armor.

Personally I crash a fair amount on my shoulders and a camera there won't last long. I don't slap the side of my head much in crashes so that mount seems to work well for me.

Now that cams are getting smaller and cheaper, and the image quality is better and better, using an actual video cam is becomming less neccesary I think.

I run my Drift at 720p and the image quality is really good I think. My uploads are ugly because of connection speed. I have to degrade them to get them to go in any resonable amout of time.

I do like the shoulder mount angle tho.

Shoulder mounted camera mounts?!?! :puzzled: What's next?!?



I do agree with Feyd that a hard mount on the shoulder is going to be prone to getting torqued or snapped during a bail.

I think a lot of it is going to depending on the actual camera that is being used.

I think moving the camera down closer to the clavicle, so the attachment point is the back of the camera (assuming something like the GoPro) and not the bottom might work better wrt to getting it out of harm's way. A tethered soft mount might help too.

Another alternative is the GoPro Chest Harness:



There are several discussions revolving around modifying or DIYing the GoPro Chest Harness:



GoPro mounts - The chest mount

DIY GoPro HD Chest Mount

ATB,
Sam

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Originally posted by indigo_wolf Shoulder mounted camera mounts?!?! :puzzled: What's next?!?

hahaha, I've met that guy! He lives in Denver. He's a really nice guy who's obviously really passionate about props. I'm amazed the suit is all thin plastic that is pop-riveted together.

While we're heading totally OT ... got a buddy back in NZ who makes props like real chain-mail out of titanium. IIRC he did some of the work for the Lord of the Rings (or Road of the Ring here :o ) and that mail is actually plastic tubing sliced and twisted together - real light weight.

Standard armour for the SCA knight fights is plastic 44 gallon drum ...

Hmmmm.... someone really needs to make body armor for kiting with a post-apocalyptic or steampunk theme.

ATB,
Sam