Our buddy Mark Sissons is featured on the home page of Huffingtonpost’s travel section. He talks about his wild time taking a heli skiing course in BC’s Cariboo mountains. Where heli skiiing used the be for rich extreme sports fans. These new courses are bringing a measure of safety and accessibility to advanced skiers who want to try their hand at heli skiing. He took one of our ContourRoam cameras with him and you can check out the footage above.
Mark tells us.

Helicopter assisted skiing and snowboarding in Western Canadian mountain ranges like the Cariboos, Selkirks and Bugaboos is hard to beat if you’re looking for massive amounts of varied terrain and unmatched snow conditions.

Now almost every skier can live their wildest downhill dream of riding in helicopters, dropping into a cloud encrusted virgin peak, drive through wide areas untouched by anyone else’s tracks. It’s like living your own Warren Miller movie, sliding between tree tips half buried in pristine, glistening white powder.

Check out our Contour Canada cameras section for more info on the Contour Roam.

As we at Pointofviewcameras are expanding our product offerings to service the burgeoning smartphone and dslr videographers, we scour the web for interesting products that our customers would be interested in. We often will buy a demo unit to try out. After testing in the field, some make it to our shortlist and we end up stocking them or they fail our criteria and they are forgotten.

The Mobislyder is one product that has come onto our radar that we think will be a good addition to our product portfolio. It meets our criterias for what we think smartphone videographers are looking for.

For the most part we have discovered smartphone gadgets for portable videographers must be the following:

• low cost: with smartphones either being free or $100 to $200 for a high end phone on contract; users do not want to spend several hundred dollars on a photo accessory
• portable: well, duh, the whole idea of using a smartphone for photos and video is the convenience factor so the accessories must be small and light as well
• sexy: the iPhone and Droids are high tech looking devices; nobody wants to put their fancy phone on a gadget that looks like it was cobbled together in a basement
 

The Mobislyder meets most of our criteria. We would prefer the device was less than $100 but it looks well designed and has multiple attachments so hopefully the build will justify the cost. For a track and camera dolly system it certainly is the most portable we have seen. It should be able to fit in a backpack or messenger bag. The round feet and rail system looks pretty high tech so it fits the “sexy” criteria.

The Mobislyder comes with several mounts:
-an articulated mount so it can be turned on an angle
-mobile device mount to fit the iPhone, Android and other smartphones; you can even use it with your camera case on
-1/4” standard mount for point and shoot cameras
-adhesive ball mount
-1/4” ball mount
For those Contour and Gopro camera fanatics among you who think this would be great for tracking shots in sports, yes, the 1/4” mount will work with those cameras.
We hope to order one in for testing and review very soon so watch for our upcoming blog post on the Mobislyder.

Contour’s newest style of mounts for Surfboards, helmets and poles have recently been announced with the Surfboard and 360° Helmet Mount now in stock!

Contour has announced a new partnership with Japan based Cerevo, Inc. to sell their live-streaming device, “LiveShell” to the US market. LiveShell is a complimentary device to the Contour+ Camera enabling owners to broadcast their experience live to the web via wireless or wired networks. Contour+ along with Cerevo LiveShell offers the only hands-free video solution that an broadcast live to the web!

A simple HDMI cable connects the Contour+ to LiveShell to bring real-time video broadcasting straight from the camera to the Ustream website. Collaboration among these three innovative companies delivers high-quality, live-broadcast video for the first time in the hands-free video market, letting adventurers share point-of-view footage as it’s captured. In addition to automatic sharing via Ustream, people can manually configure the Contour+ & LiveShell combo to broadcast live on other video platforms.

FAQ’s

What is the resolution of the broadcasted video?

• Max resolution is 4CIF format, which is 704x528 lines of resolution (standard video).  Lower resolutions are also available.

Where can I broadcast my Contour+ video?

• Customers can broadcast their Contour+ footage live to USTREAM.com.
• The Liveshell is the 1st “USTREAM Compatible” device in the world.
• Simply create a USTREAM account and configure the Liveshell to broadcast to that account.


How does Liveshell connect to the internet?

How is this different or better than the competition?

• No competitors in the PoV camera space offer a solution that allows broadcasting live to the web. 
• Current HDMI-to-Wi-Fi encoders are complex, difficult to setup and cost thousands of dollars.

Where can I get more information about Cerevo and Liveshell?

• At Cerevo’s website: http://shell.cerevo.com