The FedEx truck brought a cool new tool/toy yesterday that I suspect will serve me well in Costa Rica. The GoPro Hero2 is a high-definition video camera that also shoots 11 MP still shots and is designed to to wherever you want to take it. It's compact and easy to operate, comes housed in a box that is waterproof to nearly 200 feet and is designed to attach to a huge range of mounting accessories.I think I'll use mine mostly on the headband, so it films wherever I'm looking. In Coast Rica, that approach could get me video of jumping billfish that I am fighting and of cool stuff in the rainforest as I swing through it on a rope. However, you can also put a mount on a helmet, the front a kayak, bike handlebars... Pretty much anywhere, with the right accessory, best I can tell.
I haven't put it to the test yet, so I won't make any claims about the photos and the videos. The cameras get great reviews, though, and some of the the stuff that has been shot with one that's posted on the GoPro website is pretty amazing. Soon we'll see what I'm able to do with it.
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