Originally Posted by
leenk
Actually, I have just had an ever better idea, as I have watched Your video and thought this through.
Why not use the camera and the application as Your actual bowsight??? Replace the mechanical sight completely!
Calibrate it for distances, make it multy-dot, or auto-adjust, or make it all manually/digitally adjustable and with a decent quality zoom-lens, dimming, you could have a great bow-sight, that doubles as a bow-camera?
http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-Touch-HD2-HD...item43a186a2cb
Imagine all of us geezers with diminishing eyesight flocking to the digital age?
:-)
I need a much improved video for the mounts that are available on fhbh - I just threw together some footage I had at the time. It was in the darkest of cover(video enhancement software can correct this),the music doesn't match and was selected for the length of the clips,we have a pile of illuminated nocks now to use for filming etc...I just don't have the time to put it all together to build and sell these things.
Funny thing is, people from all over are buying them as much as people who don't get it are poking fun at the idea. The reality is that in a few short years we will be able to look back at these posts and laugh because it will become the standard.
I remember when people scoffed at laser range finders.The Vandetta is available this year. I also remember when people said that they wouldn't drink milk out of anything but a glass jug...'nuff said and I am a packaging guy!
Being a manufacturing engineer for my career (now laid off) I have been enjoying the comments and rhetoric of late in regard to technology and what I have brought to the table- outdoors people really don't embrace change unless they see a Drury , a Bill Dance or another pro hunter endorse a product(take scent lok for example- a total lie and joke that has been bought by us folks)..times are changing,let's use the tools in our arsenal to hunt and video our experiences. I wish that I had my first hunts(and all of them for that matter) recorded. I can take the same mount off of my bow and put it on my shotty and film an exciting dove hunt( and intend to again next week).
Most of what I have in regard to hunting experience is in memory since I am in my 40's but from now on all of my stepsons hunts will be easily accessible and from his point of view to watch over and over again and to share at any time he wants,from his cell phone.
Has anyone read the article on page 39 in the October Outdoor Life? If you want to get your kids involved, let's get 'er done!
Seriously there isn't any better way to get kids involved. Buy an inexpensive Kodak PlaySport or use your cell phone that you already have and mount it to your kids rig-whatever they are hunting and your rig also.You might find that you enjoy it too!