Best camera mounts for windsurfing and kiting

[manuel]

I tested out several mounting locations using the gopro rollbar mount kit.

You can view all my videos here → http://www.youtube.com/user/frenchsalsa.

First I tried 960p attached on one side of the boom:



One problem was that it only worked on one side!



Also, I wasn't pleased with how it distorted the image and shrunk the waves.

So I moved it to the clew to get farther back.
It became sensitive to centering, the lense has to be centered with the sail.



Centering the sail helped a lot but because of the reduced angle at 1080p, it'd crop too much of the picture:



So on my older gopro I set it as 720p so I can use the 170deg viewing angle:



However, I thought there was too much boom in the picture so I flipped it upside down and now I'm happy:



It works well on the formula board but gets lots of splashing due to the sail being raked farther back:



Works great on jumps and duck jibes:






I've had issues with the rollbar mount rotating when hitting the bottom in the shore break. Other than that, it's been great. It takes some getting used to center the picture I usually point between the boom and the mast track.

[evans]

Here is a mid-forward loop shot from the Clew-View.

[nw30]

Got some old boom arms laying around?
Put them to good use.

[evans]

Lets see some footage or pics of the results. I have seen this angle before and it is good. But a bit odd looking.