I remember when I thought Sony was going to crush GoPro like a bug. :)

Funny, I bought a little spy pen to put in the jacket sleeve because I thought the GoPro wasn't going to fit...might have been wrong.....sure would like to see how they kept it so discrete.

all well and good, but SO MUCH lens distortion....

... .sure would like to see how they kept it so discrete.I put a comment on the YouTube page for this video. In that comment (copied below) I wondered out loud whether GoPro was perhaps guilty of some rather misleading advertising, since it was they who produced the video.

Here is what I posted:The total lack of information on how this was shot opens up the creators to charges of false advertising. Was this shot in multiple takes or were the cameras rotoscoped out of certain takes? What was the source of the audio? It seems very unlikely it came from a GoPro.
Regardless of the answers, it is a very neat video and does a great job of showing that GoPro can actually be used in circumstances where death by massive trauma is not imminent, as in my two favorite GoPro videos shown below:



and

I often use the GoPro in wedding videos. Inside the bridal car, also alongside the bridal car where I stick it out my window on a monopod while they wave and smile makes for awesome shots. Overhead pan of guests waving and cheering. I don't use the GoPro audio It's not that type of cam. The trick is to mount it on a GoPole or in my case a DIY pod by inverting a monopod with the GoPro mounts on the foot of the monopod.

Yes, I have a telescopic mic boom pole that extends around 5 metres - the Go Pro or my Sony AS15 on the end of that can produce expensive looking "crane shots". With the PlayMemories Mobile app I can monitor the frame on my mobile phone.
I'm trying to work out a way of changing the "mounted angle" whilst shooting.

Peter W "I'm trying to work out a way of changing the "mounted angle" whilst shooting.

I think I may have an idea based on Mr Robinson's "Pancake Making Machine" - priceless!

Grazie, you are such a source of inspiration!

I'm putting together a prototype based on that design - having trouble sourcing the coal scuttle, but nothing worthwhile comes easy ...

edit: on a slightly more serious note, the effect I'm trying to over come is when I use the boom pole to climb from a ground level shot to a lofty one, the fixed camera moves in a circular path with me as the pivot, so the frame angle changes - I thought about a series of string pulleys, but that's not that different to your pic. Grazie - I think a suspended mount using gravity to maintain horizontal integrity might be more on the money.

There are a bunch of utilities 'out there' for reducing the barrel distortion ....

geoff