Document your bike ride project

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I strapped a Canon Digital Rebel to my bars with a Gorillapod flexible tripod, set the focus to infinity, the mode to sport, and the FOV to the widest 28mm.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1036/1253497772_c7c5ece3b6.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1044/1253498628_e9d26adb1f.jpg

And below is the results in a flash movie. I need to take shots about three times more often in order to make it easier to understand where I'm going, but I thought you might like it. Click the link and wait about a minute for the flash movie to load, there's no preloader so it'll just start.

Yes, a short ride for a lot of you guys, but I'm just starting out.



http://64.207.163.73/flash/bikeridemov1.html

isn't that camera going to weigh you down?

isn't that camera going to weigh you down?Not anymore than my enormous gut will. But yes, it and the extra water bottle I put on before this ride did make the carbon bike really heavy :D

Anyway, it was just something to do for run, I'm a semi-pro photographer on the side of my normal job and wanted to see how it came out.