Shooting Videos and Photos GoPro has worked hard to make shooting basic video and photography straightforward. One press of the front button turns on the camera. Push the front button again and you’re in Cam- era mode, ready to shoot video or pictures. Push the top button and you're either shooting video or pictures… or so you hope. It’s hard to say how many times I thought the camera was recording when it actually wasn’t. I’m sure you’ve seen GoPro users looking at themselves in their mir- rors to make sure the camera is on and record- ing. Of course, this becomes even more difficult if you need cheaters to see! At least once you’re shooting video there’s a red blinking indicator light. In comparison, it’s easy to tell what the Sena
10C is doing because there’s a nice young lady’s voice telling you when video shooting starts and stops. There’s a shutter click when you take photo, and you’re even told when you’ve paired to another device. The Sena Prism, however, is glitchy when it
comes to camera controls. The two buttons on the top of the camera must be pushed simultane- ously to perform a function. Sounds easy, but in
Sena Prism
Sena 10C
practice, when you may only have one hand available, it was difficult. Many times the buttons required a firm push, and there were more than a few times I could not get the camera to stop shooting or turn off. One of the most annoying things in most
bike cam video is the audio, which is usu- ally just constant wind noise. This is both a function of the camera’s noise suppression capabilities and where you mount the cam- era. My preferred location for mounting the GoPro is atop my helmet, as this centers the shot and provides a natural perspective looking over the windscreen. It’s breezy up there, but the Hero4 does a great job of masking wind noise from the audio. The
Sena 10C (which can only be mounted to the side of the helmet) tended to keep the windscreen in the shot unless I leaned far to one side. Both the Sena Prism and 10C didn’t do as well as the GoPro in eliminat- ing wind noise. One tricky thing about all bike cam
shooting is knowing exactly what the camera is seeing as you ride. The GoPro has an “Ultra-Wide” mode, which is your best bet for getting everything into the picture. It took me a bit to get used to the Sena 10C camera’s various angles while mounted on the side of my helmet, espe- cially those that were off-center from where I was looking. One nice difference
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