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Kenny
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States678 Posts
December 01 2010 00:46 GMT
#1
First off, let me give you a little background on where I work. I work for a company called Contour and we make wearable POV HD cameras mainly for athletes and sports enthusiasts. You can see more about my company here. Not trying to advertise for them, simply want to lay the foundation for why this is so cool.

Part of my job is to work with sponsors (both athletes and production companies) to get them the video footage they need and us the material to promote our camera. Well, recently I was sent a video from a group of college students over in Spain that used our camera for a really neat project called the CHASAT II. The basic idea of their project is to send a big weather balloon 120,00 feet into the atmosphere to see the world from a POV perspective. They used 2 of our cameras for this project and came out with some pretty amazing footage. I wanted to share this with all of you. The video is a bit long (9 minutes from start to finish) but definitely worth watching. If you are impatient and want to just see the cameras in space, skip towards the last 3/4ths of the video.



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denzelz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States604 Posts
December 01 2010 00:52 GMT
#2
That looks great! The lens began to ice up but the camera was still functioning. Must be a great recorder

Just wondering, what is your specific position at the company?
VonLego
Profile Joined June 2010
United States519 Posts
December 01 2010 00:52 GMT
#3
That is a jaw-dropping video. Thats really cool that your cameras are used for such a fun project -- even cooler for the students to be able to put that on! The last bit where you see the arching horizon is flabbergasting.

How much do those cameras cost? I'm assuming they were not able to retrieve any of the used resources?
Typho0n
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada276 Posts
December 01 2010 00:52 GMT
#4
so cool. The piano playing added to it so much too haha
great post
zak
Profile Joined April 2010
Korea (South)1009 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-01 00:53:27
December 01 2010 00:52 GMT
#5
wow amazing... so beautiful! im a heli pilot so i love that feeling in the sky... perfect music!

btw how the hell did you retrieve the camera?!
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PrinceXizor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States17713 Posts
December 01 2010 00:56 GMT
#6
this is too cool man. thanks alot for sharing.
Never.Die
Profile Joined March 2010
Japan189 Posts
December 01 2010 01:02 GMT
#7
Wow what a nice view....amazing. That song that played in space is from Ocean's 11, at the end of the movie where they have all the money. Really cool stuff man.
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
December 01 2010 01:07 GMT
#8
How did they transmit the video signal?
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Kenny
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States678 Posts
December 01 2010 01:08 GMT
#9
On December 01 2010 09:52 denzelz wrote:
That looks great! The lens began to ice up but the camera was still functioning. Must be a great recorder

Just wondering, what is your specific position at the company?


Seeing it is a small company still, I fill a few roles. However, my main role is working with sponsors and athletes. They refer to the role here as "Sponsorship Interaction Manager"

Odd role, yes I know. Still an amazingly wonderful company to work for though.


As for the footage, I don't actually know how they recovered the equipment quite yet. I'm in the process of trying to find that out. I will report back as soon as I know Cost of the camera they used is ~$300 a piece.
Kenny
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States678 Posts
December 01 2010 01:09 GMT
#10
On December 01 2010 10:07 Sufficiency wrote:
How did they transmit the video signal?


The videos are stored on to a MicroSD card so they were not transmitted. That makes this video even more amazing because they had to somehow get those cameras back to retrieve the footage
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
December 01 2010 01:11 GMT
#11
On December 01 2010 10:09 Kenny wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 01 2010 10:07 Sufficiency wrote:
How did they transmit the video signal?


The videos are stored on to a MicroSD card so they were not transmitted. That makes this video even more amazing because they had to somehow get those cameras back to retrieve the footage


O_o!!!! wow
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
KurtistheTurtle
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1966 Posts
December 01 2010 01:11 GMT
#12
this is awesome. favorited almost instantly. i love 9:27-9:30 where theres a smiley face..now thats a quality camera

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Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12022 Posts
December 01 2010 01:24 GMT
#13
Beautiful. Simply breathtaking.
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krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
December 01 2010 01:46 GMT
#14
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nataziel
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Australia1455 Posts
December 01 2010 01:48 GMT
#15
When the weather balloon goes high enough, the pressure drops, and the balloon expands. Eventually the balloon expands too much and pops, at which point the camera would fall back down to earth. Then you use your GPS to track where the camera landed. I've seen this done with a handicam and an iPhone (as the GPS) before.
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Sazchu
Profile Joined April 2007
Iceland489 Posts
December 01 2010 02:00 GMT
#16
"This video contains content from The Orchard Music and Sony Music Entertainment, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. "

Is there any other place than youtube where one can view this video?
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 01 2010 02:00 GMT
#17
beautiful video! amazing choice of music as well!

Where did the camera end up btw?
awu25
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2003 Posts
December 01 2010 02:01 GMT
#18
On December 01 2010 10:48 nataziel wrote:
When the weather balloon goes high enough, the pressure drops, and the balloon expands. Eventually the balloon expands too much and pops, at which point the camera would fall back down to earth. Then you use your GPS to track where the camera landed. I've seen this done with a handicam and an iPhone (as the GPS) before.

i think this is the video you're talking about
http://www.wendmag.com/blog/2010/10/19/man-and-his-kid-send-iphone-into-space-record-awesome-vid/
it provides subtitles of what is happening and also shows the camera falling back down to earth
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
December 01 2010 02:04 GMT
#19
holy fuck this is amazing

thanks for posting this ))))
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mmp
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2130 Posts
December 01 2010 02:55 GMT
#20
My God, it's full of stars. 5/5
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