I set the soloshot up a bit wrong yesterday. After a few waves I was out of frame to the right, so most of yesterday was missed until I came in, changed battery, board & set up the soloshot again...pretty thrustrating editing & just seeing glimpes of cutbacks 
...but oh well, still a magic day...the last clip is a funny one coz it captures someone on the next break perfectly while I'm clambering in over the reef 
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Nice Mick gotta love those lefts,was that THE PUP who kept dropping in on you
........ just jotting down in my notebook ...... 1 x IOU drop in for mister farking Asea 
Cheers Captain...editing another one from today too...Just for the record I don't post them up as an Ego thing. I watch these vids & think fark why did I cutback there, why didn't I hit the lip harder, why didn't I go for a floater at the end there. Very average surfing...I post up the vids coz I enjoy making them & sharing them. Thanks for the comments, they're appreciated 
Lucky I uploaded my surfing video's too...I had a hard drive die 2 weeks after I got back from Japan. I lost 2/3 of my Japan trip photo/video & all my surfing video. Devastated about the Japan media lost, very lucky to have the surfing vids backed up online 
The guy on the mal is a friend called Mal. We often share waves...I don't care if someone I trust is enjoying the shoulder on their longboard on fat waves. The guy on the blue boaty board is ok, I think he was hoping I'd fark the takeoff or something. Was getting a bit crowded & less consistent by that time.
the hayden looks perfect for you mate, I reckon you were surfing well on it.
Keep posting the vids am loving the shared stoke.
I wish I scored this week - but didn't. The local was good on Monday but I only got 2 waves before I got cobblered. Then out of the water for 2 days after that.
Went out yesterday morning but quickly realised I should have headed to your left. Swell way to groomed for my beachy, too straight and too much weed.
The HS is a good board, just needs at least chest high to get going...havn't surfed your beachy since the 90's, but love the left side of the point up your way. You get 2 swell directions wedging up on the reef there for some nice lefts & rights
Another yesterday, set the cam up a bit wrong again. Not quite as bad as the day before lol need to centre more left 
I paid $400 for the soloshot 1 from a Qld company Feb 2014. They were the first Oz biz to import & sell them that I was aware of. Before that postage from the US was a deal breaker, they were $399 US + $180 postage. You can get some decent 2nd hand deals on them now, I bet people are having trouble with the charging nodes on the armband transmitter, you have to rust buster them as soon as you get home or it rusts up bad & won't charge. There is also a soloshot 2 which also pans up/down additionally to just left/right & can be remote zoomed which would have dropped price in the first model. But if I had to buy another one, I'd personally still go the first model coz I have no use for those features.
I'm using a Panasonic FZ150 camera, great bang for buck when I bought it for $400. It has a fixed lens with zoom up to 24x & excellent auto focus during zooming. At the time I researched cameras, DSLR's were not able to autofocus while zooming. I need that for everyday video making, like focusing on something close then panning over & zooming into something further away in the distance. I'm very happy with it & if I needed to buy another camera I'd buy the next model FZ200 unless something else had similar specs but longer battery life. Which is the most useful thing in this situation. I used to get about 2 hrs 20 mins, but now down to about 2hrs which is still very good. Would love to have 3.5 hrs though.
Focal length is zooming in about 75% of the 24x zoom of the fixed lens of the FZ150. Hope that makes some sense coz I'm not really sure to be honest.
cheers mick, its plenty enough info for me to do some serious googling on the subject.
thanks for all the info, seems reasonably priced for what it is
Cheers guys...havn't surfed the last couple of days, been up in the city & met my new baby niece which was awesome
