Interesting thread, and comes at a good time for me. I've been a keen photographer for years, and have a website the length of a thick novel, but it's mainly for myself and I realise very few people are interested to read a travel account. So I'd like to move into video making as well. Like the website, it will again be predominantly for myself, as a proper record of my trips, but it would be nice to share interesting places with others.

I'm making two trips across Russia in the next year; one will be this summer / autumn and will be fairly standard, very early next year I shall return on ice roads and the trip should be pretty spectacular and not the average trip report.

I rarely read other people's websites but I do like to watch some trip videos on YouTube etc. Some are quite thoughtful and have obviously been planned rather than just cobbled together, others are doing something which is unusual or interesting in itself. I don't watch television but I imagine some would be broadcast quality with bit of professional editing. The worst type are long sequences from mounted cameras, especially if some annoying music is played over it. I have no idea why people share these. I think what is important is to know something of the place one is travelling through and give some narration of the footage, be it pieces to camera at the time, ghost narration put in afterwards or a mixture of both. This however seems to be remarkably rare in travel videos; most people seem to have no real interest in the places they pass through and one gets a series of mispronounced names and myopic observations. I remember watching one motorcycle video where the rider was passing through Almaty and remarked what great views he had of the Himalayas

I guess however this all takes a lot of effort. And perhaps I have watched too many Mongol Rally videos.

I'm currently planning a storyboard for the first trip. I'll be travelling with a professional photographer (as a friend, not someone I've hired, and not a videographer for that matter either!) and we'll take a Mavic Pro drone to get some nice aerial action shots too I think. I can see that it will be a lot of editing work, but frankly I think I'd find this quite enjoyable.

I'll be using a Nikon D750 as the main video camera, but also a GoPro for a mix of dash-cam or truck mounted perspectives, or for multiple-perspective shots.

My main question right now is which GoPro to take? I don't need 4k video and it seems (from Amazon reviews predominantly) that the newest cameras are plagued with problems, and lousy customer service from GoPro. My choice right now would be, as AnTyx suggested, a used GoPro for cheap. I was thinking a GoPro Hero 3+ Black.

Any other GoPro recommendations? As it will only be an auxiliary camera, I don't want to spend too much on it.

Cheers

EO

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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.