So I got my first gopro up and going last weekend, and I was using the chest mount. Worked awesome for a day, did some inverted tricks, never moved at all and felt super stout. Next day when I was just fooling around, my arm or pole bumped it and the clip came right out and the gopro sank to the bottom of the lake...
After losing your first camera, you start to think of every single possible worst scenario so it never happens again. The reason I'm posting this thread is because I haven't seen much said about the chest mount, and I really do enjoy the view. The only con of the chest mount is that you can't use a floaty backdoor, but you can easily attach something else to make it float too I'm sure.
I personally do not trust those clips that snap into the mounts at all anymore. My plan is to take the chest mount I have, and bolt something like this on it(made out of aluminum, sure as hell isn't going to break easy like the plastic)
You could mount the lanyard right when you screw that knob on, but I think that something like this is even better. I would then put the lanyard around a strap on my life vest.
Then you would attach something like this to make sure it floats(You can't use the floaty backdoor due to the chest mount angle)
With that kind of setup, I'd say it would be fairly fool proof. Thoughts?
Otherwise I've thought of going with a helmet mount but I'd probably use the adhesive, a lanyard, and a floaty backdoor and there wouldn't be much to worry about, but I love the chest mount..It's just more prone to getting messed up!!
Someone should convince me why the chest mount sucks and then I'll switch to a helmet mount which would be so much easier.. There's no way in hell I'm losing another camera!!!
After losing your first camera, you start to think of every single possible worst scenario so it never happens again. The reason I'm posting this thread is because I haven't seen much said about the chest mount, and I really do enjoy the view. The only con of the chest mount is that you can't use a floaty backdoor, but you can easily attach something else to make it float too I'm sure.
I personally do not trust those clips that snap into the mounts at all anymore. My plan is to take the chest mount I have, and bolt something like this on it(made out of aluminum, sure as hell isn't going to break easy like the plastic)
You could mount the lanyard right when you screw that knob on, but I think that something like this is even better. I would then put the lanyard around a strap on my life vest.
Then you would attach something like this to make sure it floats(You can't use the floaty backdoor due to the chest mount angle)
With that kind of setup, I'd say it would be fairly fool proof. Thoughts?
Otherwise I've thought of going with a helmet mount but I'd probably use the adhesive, a lanyard, and a floaty backdoor and there wouldn't be much to worry about, but I love the chest mount..It's just more prone to getting messed up!!
Someone should convince me why the chest mount sucks and then I'll switch to a helmet mount which would be so much easier.. There's no way in hell I'm losing another camera!!!
