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What am I looking for?

It could be called a life camera, on the other hand I could be talking out my Azz. I take video on the move, and need a take picture's in still frame. The video is not good enough. So its a case of strapping a small camera to my head and using that for still's. Now I need to set it, to take a set amount of picture's per min's. Say one every ten second's until the card run's out.

Any one have any idea what I am talking about?
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Any one have any idea what I am talking about?

No, but have a look at this,

GoPro Official Website: The World's Most Versatile Camera

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I have seen them before. Not quite what I am looking for. I'll wait and see if something else come's up.
Thanks any way.
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Any one have any idea what I am talking about?
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Yes
Drift's Ghost
It has 'time lapse' as one of the many options
Look up the specs.

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Ever heard the saying "Jack of all trades & Master of none" so just pick either film or photo & be good at it !!!!

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Yes
Drift's Ghost
It has 'time lapse' as one of the many options
Look up the specs.
Thank you. Will do.
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Have you considered using a smartphone?

I have a Samsung Galaxy and have installed the application called TimeLapse Pro.
It is very easy to use and set up.
You can then render the photo stream into a movie.

I've played about with various cameras on bikes, from 3CCD to DSLR and have not yet found a great solution that doesn't cost your right leg.

I don't like GoPros as their sound recording quality is down right awful and I don't like the fisheye aspect either.

If you have a smartphone, give it a shot to see if it is what you are looking for.
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Any chance of seeing a picture on how you have mounted your smartphone on your helmet?
Did you know that there are 3 lens angle settings in the Ghost ? The fisheye effect tends to be on the widest.
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Have you considered using a smartphone?

I have a Samsung Galaxy and have installed the application called TimeLapse Pro.
It is very easy to use and set up.
You can then render the photo stream into a movie.

I've played about with various cameras on bikes, from 3CCD to DSLR and have not yet found a great solution that doesn't cost your right leg.

I don't like GoPros as their sound recording quality is down right awful and I don't like the fisheye aspect either.

If you have a smartphone, give it a shot to see if it is what you are looking for.
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I must be one of the few people who don't have a mobile phone. Never had the need to use one.
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Contour helmet cam does the time lapse thing with still pictures along with great video
as well

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I did exactly what you are trying to do and used a GoPro and was very pleased. When shooting while driving/riding, I found the fisheye effect was somewhat minimized because I usually wasn't shooting at close up objects, but at the road ahead and a background that would be very very far away.

In the car I just mounted it to the dash...whereas when riding, I literally just stuck the clip to the top of my helmet. Both worked well. I've had that helmet for a few years and have never had an issue and the dash camera worked well doing a picture every minute we were driving on a 5.5 month trip.
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+1 for the Drift Ghost.

It does have a VERY wide field of vision (FOV) - up to 170 degrees! - but this can be reduced by selection from menus - or even by using the digital zoom (all of which also reduces the fish-eye effect which is very apparent in 170 degree FOV.)

Mounted on the side of your helmet, your helmet will show on the side of the picture, but reducing the FOV can reduce/remove it.

Personally I prefer a camera mounted on the side of my helmet, as this gives a more 'normal' viewing angle on my videos - and is a lot more 'discreet' and aerodynamic than a camera mounted on a clip on top of my helmet (which I think gives videos a strange 'view from above' appearance.)

- and the Ghost has LOTS of features to boot! (As does the GoPro's if you are into weird viewing angles... :-D)

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tell me if you find something like that ^_^
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