Go Pro?

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Are these any good for normal day to day use, ie other than for cycling/skiing/diving? We would possibly use it for these things but at the moment, with two small DC, it's more likely to be used to film them than anything too exciting.

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.....