Chris mentioned that the Vado 1st gen had come down to close to $50 in price, which was just too good to pass up. Now someday, I want to get a Hero HD, as they are just an incredible little camera/video recorder - http://gopro.com/products/ But for now, this does a good job, and its simple enough my older son is having a lot of fun with it too. Its also inexpensive enough we don't worry about him using it.
On Easter afternoon my family decided we needed a few items from the local Fred Meyer. With no real fuss or excitement, I decided to try to record the rides there and back.
I found out: just setting the video recorder in my safety vest pocket did a fairly decent job...far better in fact than I had hoped; the video recorder is just drop dead simple to use; simple editing seems...simple enough, but I didn't bother for this. Uploading with a Clearwire was PAINFULLY slow...but did work. I ended up getting an account on Youtube, it seemed like a small bother, but was easy enough. Now I am trying to see if I can link my videos to this blog.
Video one: Riding to Fred Meyer, testing the Vado HD.
Video two: Riding home from Fred Meyer, testing the Vado HD.
At the 5:20 mark you will see the historic Balsanger Ford Building with its Eqyptian motiff.
I feel pretty happy to have learned how to embed the videos here in my blog. Small steps, but good ones. I think developing a helmet mount would be nice. Being able to add narration would be great - the Vado doesn't have a mic jack. I may be able to set up a audio recorder with a mic in the helmet, and would hope to be able to put the audio into the video file.
