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Garmin enters the movie camera market

Yes – vibration plays havoc with the image stabilisation in cameras. That’s why I mounted the G10 cam in that fancy anti-vib mount. Before I used those fancy silicone rubber pillars (about £15 each, from a specialist vibration mount supplier) I had the same mount with different rubber pillars but they were no good, and the pic was badly out of focus the whole time.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Been running my new x-mas present VIRB side by side with my GoPro Hero 3 Black for in-cockpit videos of scenic flying and I keep being surprised by how much better my VIRB videos are than my GoPro – something about the way the VIRB (which is recording at slightly lower resolution) is somehow dealing with the light/dark contrasts of the mix of dark in cockpit view and bright outside sunlight and also the wider field of view on the VIRB (which is more letter boxed). I have never been able to get great dramatic videos with my gopro, despite dramatic reality of views during flying. Anybody else have similar results or am i the only early adopter here with the VIRB?

Last Edited by Patrick_K at 09 Jan 17:22
EGTF, LFMD

What about prop effect with the VIRB? Is it as bad as with the GoPro?

Mainz (EDFZ) & Egelsbach (EDFE), Germany

(There is a special filter for the GoPro to eliminate that ugly prop effect, but it’s expensive)

I like the GoPro pretty much (have a Hero Silver), but had problems with vibration too when i mounted it to the window.

the prop effect seems better on the VIRB, it is there but somewhat less distracting.

EGTF, LFMD
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