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Use for riding on a bike. Or rides such as at Alton towers?

They don't have a view finder (or ours doesn't, maybe new ones do) so you can't see what you are filming. Fine mounted on a bike. Not great for grabbing footage of kids.

Aldi. Thirty quid. Brilliant.

My DS (13) has one. He's taken it on a school ski trip, he takes it cycling skate boarding etc.
He loves it. It's fixed onto his cycle helmet and he also has a strap to wear it over a coat.

Ahh didn't realise that re the viewfinder!!!

In my head I love the idea of one and that we are wonderfully active go-getting cool people who need such a thing.

In reality it was 5 years since our last dive, even longer than that for skiing and I haven't owned a bike for about the same amount of time...... All of which I would love to change in the coming 5 years but I guess time will tell.

Dh and DS use theirs on their bikes and for skiing and dh has a quadcopter to take aerial footage but they don't use them for general use. Dh's is a 4 and has a screen at the back so you can see what you're filming but ds's is a 3 (it's an older model as it used to be dh's) and doesn't. I guess you could use it for everyday filming but there's better suited cameras out there...

Do you have any recommendations for another camcorder OSETmum

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The DDs make trampolining movies.

DS wears it while playing football, and has a watertight case so he swims with it.

Car journeys.....