Worth the risk?

[Tuna]

I was somewhat horrified when in one of the initial iPad commercials a person is shown getting on the back of a scooter/motorcycle carrying their iPad in their hand as if it couldn't possibly slip out and smash to pieces on the road. I thought "well, I certainly wouldn't risk something like that, especially with an expensive camera...".

Then I just ran across this:

http://bit.ly/iNp9So

 

[user237428934]

This shouldn't be a problem if he has an engraving on the screen "Objects on the screen are nearer than they appear"

 

[MC JC86]

Uh oh... a fixie attached to a film camera? Hipster wet dream. (j/k, that stereotype is getting old)


Thanks for posting this, neat idea... If you're not willing to lash a couple grand worth of photo gear to the handle bar, what's the point of owning it at all

 

[Tuna]

Thanks for posting this, neat idea... If you're not willing to lash a couple grand worth of photo gear to the handle bar, what's the point of owning it at all

Hah! I like your attitude...

 

[nikon_sam]

I've had a similar thought but it didn't include a Hasselblad...more like some P&S that I have in the closet...you better pray for smooth roads when out shooting...

 

[Keith]

Years ago I had a friend who was a journo for one of the Brisbane papers and he wanted to do a feature on Harley Davidsons. I borrowed a mate's Harley Softail and made a bracket that located the camera above and forward of the headlight and facing rearwards. The idea was to ride the bike across our main multi lane river bridge and with the fisheye lens he'd fitted the camera would take in the rider and the structure of the bridge. The camera was operated by the journo who was in a vehicle in front of me with an infra red remote for the motordrive.

I'll never forget that day ... we went backwards and forwards across that damned bridge all afternoon and got through ten rolls of film. The end result was two or three usable images ... the rest were toast from vibration blur!

 

[LKeithR]

I'll never forget that day ... we went backwards and forwards across that damned bridge all afternoon and got through ten rolls of film. The end result was two or three usable images ... the rest were toast from vibration blur!

You would've been fine riding a Honda. Harleys are the king of shakes...

 

[krötenblender]

When we were cycling through Iceland, I often had my camera(s) fixed to the handlebar with a gorilla-pod (the big one). Of course I did put it in my bag, when we were off-road, but on-road, that was not a problem.

 

[Sparrow]

Photojojo = Photography + Awesome ... sometimes the English language can be so moving