How do you attach your GoPro to your Verandah?

[RafikiTiki21]

Some great tips - thank you!
What about the fog inserts ? Are they necessary? I sometimes notice my sunglasses fog up once I go from indoors to outdoors?

I have not needed them in the 3 years I've owned my GoPro-- I live in the mid-atlantic and been fine at the beach and WDW. Coming in and out of water from the cruise may be different, I should read up more...

 

[Quellman]

If you put that on YouTube, please post a link for us. I'd love to see it!

Here is one of mine. LINK.

 

[cisobe]

Great suggestions Rafiki.

I setup my gopro for time lapse for our passage through the panama canal. I set it up at about 6 am before we started our passage, and it ran it'll about 4 pm as we exited on the Atlantic side.

I used a portable battery pack I bought on Amazon. It was a 18000mah Anker portable charger, and it has 2 usb ports for charging phones and tablets. I also bought a skeleton case for my gopro4 so I could access the usb port on the side of the camera. Since the skeleton case isn't weather proof, I used a zip lock bag over the camera, cut a small hole so the lens would not be covered by the bag, and ran the gorilla pod and usb cord out the bottom of the bag. I used so string I had in my suitcase to secure the bag to the camera and gorilla pod, and attached the gorilla pod to the railing.

With the battery pack attached, the gopro ran from 6 am to 4 pm and still had more than 50% charge left.

Sadly I didn't like the results... I was on deck 6, and aimed the camera out at about a 45 to 60 degree angle out... the rocking of the ship is very visible from this view, and seemed too distracting and I don't have the appropriate software to stabilize it. I used some free software but it killed the image quality....

 

[johnatthebar]

I actually searched for a while for this as I like filming time-lapse sail-aways. You can use a magnet mount to grab onto the side of the ship, balcony railing, etc depending on the configuration. Recently I actually attached it to the ceiling above my verandah and flipped the image.

Batt life is def a concern - I've come close to using an external pack but as long as I remember to hit record at the right time it usually works out and then I charge it up when I come back after it's done filming.

You can see the type of mount I'm talking about here: https://shop.cruisehabit.com/produc...w-safety-tether-attach-your-gopro-to-the-ship

 

[RRB]

We went on a 7 day DCL cruise in September. I have a Hero Session and set it up with a suction cup mount on the outside face of the glass rail. I used a lanyard for a safety line in case the suction cup didn't work (it never came off). I used a USB extension cable to provide power. The sliding door closed and locked without harming the cable. The position of the gopro which was outside of the railing was great because you got to see the side of the ship as well as a wide angle view. The weather was lousy on our cruise so the TL videos were't worth saving or publishing but I know how I'm doing it next time