So far so good with the new camera

So I've played with the camera this weekend. We tried to do a ride yesterday at South Park, but the trails were muddy so we bailed on the ride after our friend, who is a new rider, had a bad crash. She is fine though and a real trooper.

About the camera, The GoPro Hero Wide is actually really easy to use. The various mounts they have will let you put it just about anywhere. The handlebar/seatpost mount doesn't fit my fatty 1.5 inch bars, but I've had this problem with other bar mounted items. If I move it off to the side where it narrows it does fit. The helmet mount, chest mount, headlamp style mount and sticky mounts all use a snap-in type connection, which makes it easy to move from one to the other, but other mounts require you to screw pieces together to get the various angles/postions you might need.

I've found that the transfer rate using the USB cable from the camera is slow, like USB 1.0 devices, but no software or drivers were needed to connect. This also drains your batteries. I opted to pop the memory card out and use a USB card reader to speed up transfers and save the batteries, this was much faster.

The wide angle lens does distort images, but I actually like the effect and being able to get so much into a shot is great. Like they say is does seem more immersive.

The draw back to this is that things look farther away, but that is to be expected.
All in all I give the camera really high marks. So far battery life with the Energizer AAA nmh rechargable batteries.

I'm looking forward to some epic ride footage.
Here is some more test footage I shot.