overlap

Just as the increasing hours of light mean I no longer need my big front light on my bike, they also mean twice the potential for messing about with the camera. One of the things that's occasionally occurred to me over the course of various interesting moments in traffic over the last year or three is how having onboard video would offer a certain limited amount of protection, as well as the odd moment of interesting footage among the hours of nothing special. With this in mind, on friday I decided it might be a worthwhile experiment to see what quality images I could get from my camera, which appears to offer about the same video performance as the small video camera that has caught my eye. There are choices to be made between having a camera mounted to the bike, which gives the benefit of more stable placement but a more limited field of view, and head-mounting the camera for a more flexible viewpoint but risking less stability in the image. I do know that handheld, while amusing and no big deal, is probably not the best way to carry on. Fortunately that's not a problem with the improvised arrangement of a light mounting bracket and a saddle quick release bolt that mean as of now I only need to press the shutter button. More experimentation will undoubtedly follow...