Twenty20 Helmet Camera
As many of the long time readers of twistingasphalt know, I’ve been seriously thinking about picking up a helmet or lipstick camera for quite sometime now. It was something that I spent quite a bit of time researching before the great winter rains rolled into LA and sidetracked the tail end of our riding season. To be honest it just seemed like a bad time to drop some decent coin on a new camera that I wouldn’t be able to use for awhile.
Fast forward to this week and I came home to find an email from a fellow named Jason who enjoyed hanging out on the twisting asphalt website and wanted me to know that his company Twenty20 Camera has introduced a helmet camera system and a new website.
Now, I don’t know Jason at all nor have I played around with his product, but so far he’s been extremely helpful and courteous via email while answering a number of questions about his camera unit. And even though their website is a bit of a work in progress, I thought it was pretty cool that they offer some very detailed instructions about how they suggest you set their system up. From what I’ve seen of some other helmet camera vendors that’s not always the case.
Transworld Motocross Magazine did a more in-depth, hands on review of the camera in which they scored it 8 out of 10… You can read more about what they said, here.
Since I work with video cameras all day, I’m a bit picky about the cameras that I use - perhaps even more so for my personal applications - its a “cost” of doing business I guess - but after reading over the twenty20 tech specs it sure sounds like a very capable unit. Perhaps in the future I’ll get to test one out 
, who knows…. In anycase, if you’re thinking about a helmet camera you oughta consider the twenty20 gang, if for no other reason then they seem pretty helpful…
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Helmet cams are good for dirtbiking, because the head is the most stable part the rider-bike combo. But on street bikes I found the helmet to be sub-optimal. Every time you check your blind spot, mirrors, speedometer, look to the side, etc. (which is more than you think) the camera moves and it makes the audience sea sick. The video I got when I mounted my camera on my head is watchable, but I didn’t put it on my site because my other angles were so much better. I found mounting on the handlebars, pegs or tank the best method for street bikes. Test it out, you will see what I mean.
Hey James:
Your thoughts are absolutely correct, the helmet is the best “dirt” mount, but there are better ways for street bike mounting. Dylan already wrote an excellent piece on Twenty20 cameras (thank you Dylan), but I might add that we sell a motorcycle camera in addition to the helmet camera featured in TransworldMX.
The motorcycle camera has an independent anti-vibration mount that is meant specifically for mounting anywhere on a street bike. That same unit also makes use of the vehicle battery as a power source, as opposed to an independent battery like the helmet camera. Be sure to check both systems out if you get a chance to shoot over to our website http://www.twenty20camera.com.
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