Go and look at the Drift Ghost S if you can stretch or the original Ghost, far better cameras for filming fishing than GoPro. If you can get hold of Fish and Game magazine (most book shops have it), I just wrote a 2 page article on action cams for fishing with all the info you'll need to know. Definitely use 60fps if you intend doing any slow motion stuff.

I have also used Contour, Sony and GoPro extensively. The Drift runs rings around all of them, especially in regards to battery life, double the GoPro and far easier to use. If you're uploading to Youtube, video quality is irrelevant as Youtube down-samples the hell out of any footage, another reason why 4k is totally pointless for online viewing via popular mediums. Andrew

Just through online sites part-timer. www.basenz.com in Wanaka sell them as does a few other online retailers, always had good service from Base. The Drift network is nowhere near as extensive as GoPro which have a truly massive marketing machine.

Action cameras are a funny item, I reckon at least 90% of the people who buy them, use them once or twice then stick them in a draw never to be used again... filming is easy, uploading, editing and soundtracks are hard!

Absolutely, the very best part, and one factor that every other action camera doesn't have, is dedicated timestamp video tagging (great for game fishing), so basically you can record all day and NEVER miss a strike. Here's an extract from my article to explain it a bit better.

"Video tagging to my mind is the single most important feature to look for on a camera for filming fishing. What it does in simple terms is; the camera is constantly recording, however it is not saving the footage to your memory card. On the Drift Ghost S, I have video tagging set to a 2minute interval. So what does this do?

Say I hook a fish… I simply tap the remote located on my wrist after I hook-up… the camera will automatically start saving to the memory card, saving back footage 2 minutes prior to that point (The hookup)… the current 2 minutes (playing the fish)… and the next 2 minutes after that (The release). What this does is ensure you NEVER miss capturing that all important strike and the build up to that moment which really makes a clip. 

Video tagging can be set to much longer intervals as well, but for most battles with our freshwater denizens, 6 minutes total tagging time seems about right, if it is a prolonged scrap, tapping the remote again will add a further 2 minutes onto the recording and so on. More importantly, this also negates having hours and hours of footage to trawl back through when editing, leaving you with just the segments you ‘want’ to include in your clip, a very handy and time saving feature......"

I am definatly going to be looking into that ghost-s camera. That video tagging feature sounds like the go when it comes to capturing random events and hookups.

What sort of real life battery times do you get?

They seem the business, have you ever had any problems with it? the way the pricing is id more than likely buy from amazon, for 570ish depending on our $ with all the extras i would need

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q3DIQUY/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=1944687742&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00GJRCPRO&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0X186BA1KKQ208TT1G6N

Plus an extra 20 for 2 wasabi batteries and standalone charger
If i was to buy local it would need to be 2nd hand, 570 is over my limit anyway but with xmas on the horizon it could change!

cheers for the feedback mate

I think the Sony is the only one with true stabilisation Krow. I have never had an issue with it, even head mounted as you'll see on my Youtube clips. On a boat is fine, unless you're smashing into a short hard chop, in fact the boat mounted footage is excellent I found - really stable. Here is some sample Ghost S footage from earlier this year in various situations. (using a polariser here, hence blue sky hues). This is 1080 and 60fps with standard bit rate, there is a high bit rate setting, but it's not required for Youtube IMO.



It has an external Mic input, so that helps if you want sound. I don't use sound on my clips so not an issue, external mics are cheap as however.  Use at sea is hard on cameras, the Ghost(s) I have had lasted very well (some minor corrosion on the body screws), I don't use them underwater though, if you want underwater footage, a GoPro in a case is the best bet, but any camera used underwater then pulled back into sun will fog - they all do it. The Ghost S has far superior image quality than the Contours, I used to use the Roam, still a great, albeit, basic camera for filming.

Do you know if the remote is waterproof also?

yep, been through video editing dramas before! its pretty much the whole reason i learnt to build my own PCs, far more bang for buck!

Cheers for the info Andrew I now own a Ghost s . If anyone is going to import some of those $20.00 batteries I'm keen.