GoPro is the most common reference for cheap cameras you can stick to yourself and those are about $300 US and up. I believe but have not verified the GoPro resolution is full HD 1080i. You've seen GoPro videos and the quality is good while enduring substantial abuse.
iON is another maker of action camcorders and their low-end model shoots at 720 resolution but it does it for $65 US plus a $24 SD card. Add the $20 head strap and you are ready for video bungee jumping.
Bungee jumping is of no interest to me but the view of what it looks like to play the guitar with lasers shooting all over the place could be highly-dramatic. The static camera shows them well but it's a fixed position and there's zero drama in that. A second camera adds high interest and that can be done minimally for about $100 US.
Of photographic concern is the light sensitivity of the cheaper camera as lasers are so intense that any camera will catch them but it will take more sensitivity to catch the secondary light from the LEDs, particularly when the light is bounced. Without good sensitivity, the secondary light will be lost. That also means the probability of being able to clearly see any finger movement on the guitar would be low in that environment.
Of rendering concern is the static camera is full HD 1080i so it has to be down-sampled to 720p and that's not horrible as there's no chance of losing clarity in that process but it's still far from ideal.
If you jump up to iON's best, what do you know, it's about $280 US.
I can't afford any of them but I don't regard not having a solution as a reason to give up on anything. I have total confidence the resulting video, in terms of content alone, would be radically cool insofar as it's much more of an immersion into the virtuality of doing what I do. There's no way of expressing it in any other virtual world as they can't even see it and the virtual reality worlds need to improve vastly before they can do it. At this point in technology, there is no other way.
(Ed: full-out holodeck or nothin'?)
Roger that, Cap'n ... but ... it's not or nothin'. The action cam is the best 2D representation of it. So, that's the basis for the interest.
iON is another maker of action camcorders and their low-end model shoots at 720 resolution but it does it for $65 US plus a $24 SD card. Add the $20 head strap and you are ready for video bungee jumping.
Bungee jumping is of no interest to me but the view of what it looks like to play the guitar with lasers shooting all over the place could be highly-dramatic. The static camera shows them well but it's a fixed position and there's zero drama in that. A second camera adds high interest and that can be done minimally for about $100 US.
Of photographic concern is the light sensitivity of the cheaper camera as lasers are so intense that any camera will catch them but it will take more sensitivity to catch the secondary light from the LEDs, particularly when the light is bounced. Without good sensitivity, the secondary light will be lost. That also means the probability of being able to clearly see any finger movement on the guitar would be low in that environment.
Of rendering concern is the static camera is full HD 1080i so it has to be down-sampled to 720p and that's not horrible as there's no chance of losing clarity in that process but it's still far from ideal.
If you jump up to iON's best, what do you know, it's about $280 US.
I can't afford any of them but I don't regard not having a solution as a reason to give up on anything. I have total confidence the resulting video, in terms of content alone, would be radically cool insofar as it's much more of an immersion into the virtuality of doing what I do. There's no way of expressing it in any other virtual world as they can't even see it and the virtual reality worlds need to improve vastly before they can do it. At this point in technology, there is no other way.
(Ed: full-out holodeck or nothin'?)
Roger that, Cap'n ... but ... it's not or nothin'. The action cam is the best 2D representation of it. So, that's the basis for the interest.
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