Hi Zane, Sorry for the double post, I did not see something already going, you can delete the new thread I started. I am workiing on a new DVD, not sure how long it is going to take to put it together. Here is some information about the camera and my connection to Patrick Carter.
I had a chance to use 10 of these cameras for 8 days mounted to many different places on my airplane Bushwacker. First I will tell you a little about how this happened. Patrick Carter founder on Nflightcam with a resume that would make most pilots envious contacted me by email. He wanted to sponsor me with cameras for a video and because his timing was almost uncanny, I was already planning a trip that was less then a few weeks out. I decided to email him back with my interest in testing them out before I left, I had already borrowed a Go Pro from Doug Keller and was planning on testing it. Things changed quickly when I realized my head camera guy (my wife) did not like the idea of camping out in 15-20 degree weather even if it was a balmy 40 and sunny degree day. I called Patrick and told him my trip was going to be postponed and there was no hurry now to get the cameras out to me, I was going to be on hold until it got warmer but added unless I find someone else that wants to do it. He said he would love to fly out and do it provided his wife was agreeable, with in the day the trip was back on and even better yet I had the guy that new the most about these little cameras. We had never met face to face but I knew after speaking with him on the phone it was going to go great. He arrived in Portland, OR. from Arkansas and we went to work preparing camera gear and mounts, he had also rented a very nice digital Canon SLR 5D camera to do the ground footage with some expensive lenses, monitor and tripod. It took us about 1 1/2 days to get all our gear figured out and then we left on a miserable rainy Washington day. It took us another 3 days because of weather to fly to our intended destination. I still had done no testing of the cameras and was going on what Patrick had told me about them, trusting in his expertise. We used his cameras along the way to document the trip in both video and time lapse. When we finally got a chance (3 day into trip) to put the footage on the Mac notebook pro computer I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the 1080p video. I had seen video on his web site of what the camera could do but I was still skeptical from past experience with mounting cameras to Bushwacker, it seemed in the past no mater what I did I would get jello (vibration) from almost any RPM.
We were at the start of filming now, day 1 and I had hopes of some great footage. Over the next week I got to know Patrick much better and realized not only is this guy smart and knows his shit but he has a camera that works. He started his business by a lark, he was modifying cameras for himself and friends for aerobatics, he flys a Pits for fun and does airshows and also owned a Cessna 180. He realized there was a market that had not been tapped and decided to fill it. Here is how the camera is different from some of the others. He starts out with a Countour + camera and modifies it for guys like us to have a mic jack to interface with any intercom, it also has an aviator lense that he developed to reduce and or completely eliminate prop blur or prop chop in the video and it works in most cases, it has a rotating bezel that allows you to mount the camera in an position and then set the horizontal plane (I love this), you can link the camera through Blue Tooth to any IPhone, Android or I Pad and probably other devices to see exactly what the camera sees while shooting. It will shoot an hours video on a 16g SD card in full 1080p, it weighs 5 oz. and therefore has a lot less mass to vibrate and will mount with rams and other mounts. The frontal view of this camera is small so there is a lot less camera in the airstream then say a Go Pro. It has built in GPS that can be downloaded with your video to see where you went. I am sure there are things I forgot to add but that is most of it. He has created a spud (soon to be available) that will go anywhere on the airplane that has a 6-32, 8-32, 10-32 screw or a number AN4 bolt that makes mounting this camera in multiple places easy.