Quick Tech! GoPro Personal Video Camera

If you're like most automotive enthusiasts, you probably spend a fair amount of time in front of your TV watching various forms of motorsports. Whether you prefer a weekend NASCAR race on the living room big-screen or some late-night road racing on the garage TV while working on your project car, all of that coverage has one thing in common--outrageous camera angles of everything from in-cockpit views to rear-facing sights of the racing pack.

Now you can produce the same type of video for your own use with the personal video-camera system from GoPro Cameras. The GoPro Motorsports HERO is a 3-megapixel digital camera that not only takes TV-quality, 30 frames-per-second video you can play back on your computer or television, but allows you to take still pictures as well.

The camera kit comes with everything you see in our lead photo, including mounting tabs, suction-cup mount, adapters, waterproof housing, and data cables, for $179.99. While the GoPro digital camera has only been out for a few months, expect to see upgrades in the near future, including a wide-angle lens, a quick-release kit, replacement mounting tabs, a rollbar mount, and more.

We ordered a GoPro Motorsports HERO to play around with, and we thought we'd share the setup and usage with our readers. Our plans are to keep this little baby handy when we travel to events and post video to our Web site from feature-car photo shoots, ride-alongs, track days, and much more. So be sure to visit www.mustangandfords.com and check out our videos as we begin to use our Motorsports HERO more and more. We even have a few videos up right now from our testing of the camera system so you can see the quality of the video output.

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