boarderaholic

If you're buying straight off the site, then yeah, you make as well splurge, but in store, currently Future Shop has the silver on sale for $300, and the remote for $100, which brings the total to $400. For the black edition I spent $475 on it, after tax. After taxes and stuff, you still end up saving about $55.

hoodboard4life

Go with the Silver edition. Also, battery life isn't terrible so long as you use it appropriately. Turn WiFi off, only record when you have to (don't leave it recording when you're on the lift for example).

I have both the Silver and the Black editions and for the price the Silver edition is amazing.

And you won't feel so bad when it flies off your helmet and tumbles down the mountain!

vknyvz

this lil thing supposed to be really strong, look at the vid on my first post, fell from 12000 feet and still fine

no not really what else is out there?

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boarderaholic

There's the contour camera as well. I couldn't tell you anything about them though.

Cameras | Contour

zoom111

If your looking for something to film with and have a bit of fun then you should check out the RD32II. It's around 125$ and shoots in full HD. I don't film very often and didn't want to spend too much on a camera that I would be using a few times a year. Overall I'm very happy with the camera, it can do video, photos and audio (waterproof also). Here's a sample video from youtube (watch in HD) and a few shots I took at Tremblant early this year (raw photo, no editing)

accuracy

Yeah i bought mine online, we do alot of cross border shopping. Its way cheaper.

BigmountainVMD

I've been researching cameras WAAAAY too much and I can say that in terms of pic/video quality, functionality and camera specs... the Hero 3 black has it. I just really didn't like the boxy look of the Gopros and wanted a cylinder like the ion air pro, but the smaller Hero 3 and 120 fps 720p did it for me.

Other options are:
Contour
Ion air pro (pro 2 model being released soon)
Drift HD
Replay XD1080 --> I really like this one, seems perfect for boarding and pretty small. Not technically waterproof... I emailed them with some questions and they never responded so I said fuck it.

Here is a list of 10... hero3 black is in the top spot:

Best Action Cameras to buy in 2013 | Geonaute 360-degree action camera | T3

vknyvz

wow dude i really like the Contour ROAM2 and ion speed pro, circular shape really look nice

but hero 3 comes first, i wonder where silver will go in this list, I mean from what I can tell difference isn't that much just 1mp more and lens is different, which makes a difference I know, lens is all about a camera.

i found a gopro silver brand new never opened box, buying it today for 250, that's like 70 in savings he says it's never opened in box so we will see

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BigmountainVMD

The Ion air pro was pretty cool and has double the battery life of a gopro at 2.5 hours and that is without a battery pod. It has similar connection in the back for this whole "pod" thing where you can add a wifi-pod or a battery-pod if you want to use it with your phone or get more record time.

The Ion air pro 2 ups the ante going from 5MP to 14MP, but I couldn't find any more info on it. I just really like the small contour, simple slider record operation and battery life. Video quality on the original was sub par, and low light recording was not good. The 2nd edition should be better. The only thing I cant figure out with these cylinder cams is that you have to do a side helmet mount for POV, and there is no way to do that in a clean looking way w/o just attaching to a goggle strap, which is too elastic and wiggly IMO.

vknyvz

got the silver one for 250

god micro sd's are so freaking expensive

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2013 Never Summer Cobra X 163cm
2012 Flow Trilogy Bindings XL