I am thinking of getting something for the car.
Anyone worked with this stuff before?
Like the Hero, video cam? Surprisingly good quality images from them if you have enough light and don't mind the fixed focus/fixed angle of view.
If you are wanting to do wide field HD video, I can't think of a better cam at that price point (especially with the bonus of housings and weatherproofing).
That said, if you just want a P&S for the car - I can think of a dozen I'd rather use.
GoPro rocks. Jetskier and Phantom (and I think Arse) have them. They are very wide angle (which I personally love.)
Depending on what you want it for, you can get a HiDef 'keychain camera' for about $40 on eBay. I use them on my airplanes. Not at all GoPro quality, but not at all GoPro price, either. Here's a video I shot a week or so back with one.
hmm, yeah i have the same keychain camera It's been sitting waiting to be attached to a model rocket. I didn't think to use that.
Any ways i am taking a week off from work soon and plan on a trip down route 66 in the mustang for a couple days and thought I'd make a little arty documentary style video. Shrug, maybe not though. But the keychain camera may do. I mostly want to get filler shots to denote the travelling involved.
you got a Flip? What about a cheap suction mount and that bad boy?http://www.amazon.com/Panavise-809-Camera-Window-Suction-Cup/dp/B000246ST6
youtube'd some vid's and they look pretty nice. I'd even mount that to an exterior window glass and shoot some passing stuff at a lower speed with my Flip.
Do you have the actual HiDef keychain camera? They're fairly new. I've had a number of the 720x480s, but now have upgraded to the 1280*720's.
I have a JVC everio AVCHD camera, and yeah I think it's the hd keychain. I will verify.
haha pretty funny. Lucky to get it back. A seagull stole my icecream once, I didn't get that back :(
I have the GoPro HD Motorsports Hero with the LCD screen as well. I LOVE it. I tend to stick to the 50/60fps setting and reduce the res to 720p instead of going for 25fps " 1080p, simply to smooth out the footage - cars can be rattly things at speed! The thing is, at 60fps, there are few affordable video editors that handle the footage well for my Mac...so I have not really had the time to clart around converting and messing and snipping things together.
If you want to see some stills, check out this album :http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150092826601621.276816.597016620&l=eca91d4a79&type=1
The still are reduced (unless you click download, I think!) and are frames grabbed from video footage at 720p - so not actually 'stills' from the camera.
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I got the same.
can't wait to see from vid's persist!
the go pro's instructions are by far the worst i have come across in any consumer device of any type. After unfolding 4 different sets of instructions, I finally found the english ones. There is so much wasted packaging and paper it's unreal.
I am still fuming that step one tells you to open it and replace the back door with the one with holes in it for better sound, but doesnt tell you how. It's sitting in the box still.
I cannot believe there is absolutely no instructions for the hardware. for the price it should come with a video how to.
I am sitting here with sore fingers having spent 30 minutes figuring out how to get it off the damn base it came on.
i dont care if it doesn't take me to long to figure it out from here -
I am never getting another go pro again.
my wife's phone can do hd video just as well, and it's more the mount i was interested in, and it doesn't have instructions. That's just fantastic.
It's a good thing it was a gift. I'd be packaging it up in a shoe box and sending it back in a pile.
If anyone with a gopro can tell me how to swap out the back door, that'd be great.
thanks man.
i got ranty there. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBByvLlIzw&feature=fvwrel
The beginning of this deals specifically with removing the back. Apparently it just pulls off/snaps in - see 1:40
even after watching the videos, i would never buy one.
i understand its bullet proof, but its so poorly thought out, it's boggling. where he uses gorilla glue to correct a problem, I can't even use a screw driver. the hardware will not fit together.
and i am mechanically inclined user. I can't imagine someone who doesn't own tools trying to use this.
I am really surprised at the lack of quality for the price.
I busted out my nuts and bolts collection and used my own bolts which seated more closely in the opening.
luckily i had some 32s.
le sigh.
if you buy one of these i suggest you have sand paper, screw drivers, allen wrench, and extra 32 nuts.
I must admit to snapping the main black clip at the top of the housing, pretty dark early in my ownership. Just always seemed still to close the housing and I put in too much effort one day and WHACK - snapped the little bugger.
Anyway, cos I am fab, I have uploaded an example video direct from the camera (not been through anything other than Quicktime Player to trim it) 50fps (Uk, remember) and 720p.
Try and ignore my Dad and I looking like we are off out to 'call in some debts'. 
http://youtu.be/c7SHJFrb-MY
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That's a great video phantom. The camera does make beautiful video.
I. Briefly tried changing the soundtrack in iMovie afterwards and iMovie is baaalls. :( ha ha.
I so want to add action movie titles over that clip!
I want to do a Don LaFontaine style voice over.
In a world where cars are king, and the roads are narrow. Two bald men, one miata, and one video camera, will collect some debts, and maybe, find their way home again.
Is it wrong that I want to create a 'caption competition' style thing, where people use that clip as a basis for any output they like?
What could I offer as a prize?
Your Go-Pro?