Just managed to watch your video, Julie. Flickr wasn't playing for me before now. Anyhow, it looks great. I'd like to see a video of you videoing using the hand mount! Do you feel like you have to keep your hand pointed towards Charlie? Do you have your arm in a natural position? The curve is due to the wide angle lens. It looks more or less pronounced depending on what kind of horizon you have. You can reduce it by reducing the angle of the lens (on the Hero, apparently, you can take it down to 127 degrees, and on the higher models, you can take it all the way to 90 degrees), but then obviously you get less content in your video. Apparently, there's also an option in the GoPro Studio for reducing the appearance of it. I definitely need one of those harnesses to get a dog's-eye view! What fun! What would be really awesome would be to have two cameras - one on the handler and one on the dog during a training session, and edit the footage from both together
Right, I must try and find the settings....I'm not a fan of instruction manuals, I never want to read more than the "quick start" guide. I just have my hand at my side, usually resting on my bag strap anyway, it feel natural and it was no trouble just to point the camera towards Charlie. I tended to switch it on if another dog approached us (in case of trouble) and I just kept my hand on my bag and it didn't look obvious the camera was running, I don't think. I do think I got less "shake" because the camera was on my hand compared to the muvi clipped to my coat etc. although a proper chest strap might solve that too..... I do like the dog's eye view! Makes me feel a bit dizzy watching the recording though. I'm not sure I'd watch a lot of it once the novelty wore off....
