A short film from the trip:
And how to shoot it...
We have 3 gopros with us. Part of every day is planning where and how and using which mounts to get the best footage. We have a bunch of different mounts with us that we have tried around the bikes and the riders. Mika and Mikko already have some experience of different camera views from their previous mc-trips. Trying to get good video can sometimes be a little stressful and cause a lot of breaks to mount, dismount, turn off and on the camera. But the joy of watching at a good clip at dinner after the ride for the day pays for it. After we're done with the trip we're going to have somewhere around 170 gigabytes of gopro video. Editing this to an interesting video will be going to take days and days of work. We have actually thought of using a professional video editor to go through the material. Anyway. The end result is going to be mind-blowing, we can say that already. The scenery here in Patagonia is just so amazing and huge and versatile.
I have about 2-3 years old gopro hero 3 silver and Mika has the same in black edition. Then we also have Mikas friends' hero 3+ black edition. Although my camera is old, both still-photo and video quality are amazing. We have mostly been using the sceleton backdoors with the cameras so that the camera mic would pick up surrounding sound. On very dusty roads and of course shooting in the water we used the waterproof backdoor. The Only complaint from us for the hero 3 model is the feel of function buttons. On a moving motorcycle you can't really see or hear if the camera is on or off and the feel of the buttons is unreliable. Although you press the buttons with full force, you still can't rely on that the camera just turned on or off. If you're riding low speed, you might hear the camera beep but that also depends on the surface you're riding on and the wind speed and the radiotraffic on that spesific moment in your headsets. Using the camera buttons with your other hand disables that hand from controlling the motorcycle and can be a risk factor. Also checking if the camera is recording by looking at it's blinking light on the move is a risk factor. We thing that a wireless remote would be safest and that actually exists. But since it's a wifi remote it would run down the battery very fast.
We have 5 batteries with us for the 3 cameras and about 1,5 to 2 batteries are used daily by Mikko and 1 by Mika. So the batteries are not that long lasting and therefore it's good that we have extra. We can see the videos taken on our phones using the gopro app on our phones. The camera connects to phones by wifi but it runs down the camera battery very fast. Attached are pictures of gopro camera parts, mounts and accessories we use.
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