wmccall614
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I'm about to take my 4th dive, 1st beach dive this week. My wife just won a GoPro camera. Whats the best way to secure one.?I see they have a wrist wrap.
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I really don't understand the suggestion to not carry a "hands free" camera that is constantly running. We're not talking about a $6k SLR with massive ports and light heads, it's a go pro. It's 4" by 3" and needs absolutely no interaction to capture your dives. I've carried a P&S camera on all but my 4 training dives and 2 others, when I was testing out new gear configs. The camera was still in my thigh pocket, just never taken out. Certainly not everyone is comfortable with that, and perhaps I shouldn't have been but I've never had any issues while filming, especially when just doing "video." (That is, if what I captured could really be called video... mostly it's poor quality but it gives me reminders of what I saw and allows me to look up fish IDs etc after my dive).
Fair enough. I've never done that (chase anything or "get the right shot") probably because I'm not trying to be a "photographer" and I think chasing is the same as harassing...Basically because many of us have seen and had to intervene to correct or stop diving problems caused by people doing very simple tasks when they are not yet INSTINCTIVELY comfortable divers and something minor has gone wrong. I certainly have had to more than once. If you dive and have a GoPro completely automatic and leave it alone then I agree no problem, but people don't often do that, they get carried away and start to chase critters or concentrate on 'getting the right shot or angle' and something happens. - Phil.