Helmet Cam

[mc_roon]

Is there any way to hook up a helmet cam to a flash drive, or any way to use a high quality helmet cam without a camcorder?? Any insite would be welcomed.

[Sensisnow]

If you're looking to hook up a high-quality helmet cam to a flash drive, it's not going to happen. There's some lower-quality helmet cams out there that record to flash or hard drive based camcorders though. Either way you're going to be dropping some cash if you want a quality setup. I'd get a quality helmet camera and then look around ebay to see if you can find a camcorder with a broken lens (since you don't need it anyways) or something similar. Just make sure that it has AV in/out as well as LANC if you want to be able to control it remotely.

[Red Baron]

I've got a helmet camera hooked up to a SD card based recorder - something made by Audiovox, I can't remember the model number, I got it cheap off Amazon.com (around $75).

It records video and audio through RCA inputs, and is about the size of an iPod. The footage is Mpeg-4, or some variant of that, it's really lossy and not quite 100% broadcast quality. That said, I used it to record POV footage of firefighters training to put out airplane fires, and it came out great - good enough to use on television.

If you're looking for fantastic helmet cam video (a la "The Waiting Game") this won't get you that, but it will get you usable stuff for the web and playing around with.