Wrist mount for GoPro
Submitted by grantarctic1 on Sat, 2012-03-10 15:30
A friend asked me to make a simple mount for his GoPro. I didn't have time to mount it to his spear gun so i came up with a sleave mount.
I started with a length of marine alloy gave it a slight bend to clear the wrist .
I stuck on the mounting plate but also wanted to add some screws just to make sure it didn't fall off.
The finished mount . Ready to slip under the wetsuit sleave.
This is how it fits under the wetty.
Cheers Grant..
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Faulkner Family
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very clever. you could
very clever. you could always use a velcro strap to hold it on if you use a short sleeve wetsuit . spose you could even make one to go on the head.
couple of stainless screws and a screwdriver and it would never come off, may hurt a bit tho
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grantarctic1
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Next model
Yeah the next model will have velcro straps , hope to get a report tomorow of how it went .
southcity104
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nice work!!
simple and practical
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hlokk
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Simple but effective. Gopro
Simple but effective. Gopro actually sell a wrist mounted housing but it faces out from the wrist instead of down the arm, so good to have one facing forward.
Is your friend going to get a focus fix underwater housing? One of the unfortunate things about the gopro :(
grantarctic1
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Not sure
Not sure what that is hlokk, ( focus fix ) Thats my GoPro Hd2 , thats why i made 2 mounts . But i havn't used the camera under water yet. Do they have problems with focus ?
PS : yeah ive seen the wrist mounts but wanted one to face forwards .
hlokk
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I have a hd2 as well and
I have a hd2 as well and they're great cameras!
The prob is because they're fixed focus and a curved lens, they go a bit blurrier underwater. Can still get usable video out but it won't be crisp HD like they normally do. So for crisp UW, you need a housing with a flat lens. A few people sell the, like eye of mine. Been meaning to order one myself actually. I think tailor marc has one of those housings (see his Freo UW thread).
And definitely your front facing mount is more useful!
grantarctic1
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Cheers
Cheers for the info mate . i'll look into the flat lense.
Definately going to make a few different mounts for the GoPro. The Rob Allen is the next job .
black gen
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the eye of mine housings are
the eye of mine housings are shit....
the go pro flat lens housings are way better...
grantarctic1
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Yeah , got one
Yeah i got the flat lens now , got the piggy back battery too, get about 4 hours of filming now before needing to change or charge battery's.
alfred
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Top work there Grantartic1,
Top work there Grantartic1, very clever.
adam87
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nice work mate,would like to
nice work mate,
would like to see the results!