{"id":766,"date":"2013-06-09T22:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2013-06-09T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T23:22:46","slug":"free-diving-exploring-gordons-bay-gopro-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/09\/free-diving-exploring-gordons-bay-gopro-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Diving &#8211; Exploring Gordon&#8217;s Bay &#038; GoPro Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-OaoYDIrgrs\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So after the quick swim through test of my new GoPro at clovelly I decided to take it to Gordon&#8217;s bay for another test run, this time with my wet suite and a bit of depth about 13m (I think it was).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pretty much everything went well accept my\u00a0buoyancy.\u00a0I didn&#8217;t strap on my weights and \u00a0obviously became really\u00a0buoyant. I thought I could get away with it but it seems that in the video above much of my head is missing in a few of the shots. This is because I kept floating up and for no weights, I had the camera angled wrong. In the Clovelly video I could get into the full shot because I wasn&#8217;t wearing a wetsuit and constantly floating up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were main 2 take away&#8217;s from these tests. The first is I think I need to angle my camera a bit over 90 degrees relative to the pole maybe 100 &#8211; 110 degrees so that I get less of the pole in the shot and more of myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secondly the battery died just when I was following some scuba divers around the dive site. It was after about the 1-2 hour mark of\u00a0constantly\u00a0being on, so from this I can estimate the life span of the battery depending on how I use it which is also great. As a result of this I might also get a spare battery incase it runs out at the best of times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the things that really annoys me is that there is no LCD screen to preview the shots. I know you can buy it but thats the thing (you have to buy it). I&#8217;m used to digital camera&#8217;s where you automatically take a shot and preview it on the back, even my cheapo intova had that feature. But I understand, I guess that is how GoPro make money so good on them for creating such a good business model.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I feel the app should allow you to preview the images and videos and it certainly\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0a technical issue so I wonder if GoPro is holding of on this because they know it will impact their LCD attachment sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyhow, other than that it was a great dive and I explored parts of Gordon bay which I didn&#8217;t do before. I went to the usual wall and all the cracks and crevices \u00a0on both the east and west walls. I also heard the\u00a0wobbegong\u00a0shark was there again but after spending some time looking for it I couldn&#8217;t see the shark anywhere. Instead I finished the dive by followed some scuba divers around the dive site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enjoy the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after the quick swim through test of my new GoPro at clovelly I decided to take it to Gordon&#8217;s bay for another test run, this time with my wet suite and a bit of depth about 13m (I think it was). Pretty much everything went well accept my\u00a0buoyancy.\u00a0I didn&#8217;t strap on my weights and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freediving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidonesia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}