Recording Extreme Sports
Recording or taking pictures of any activity that involves a lot of movement and fast paced action is very difficult for multiple reasons. Firstly you’ve got the fact that you won’t have many hands free – rock climbing and wind surfing don’t tend to give you many free hands with which to do things. Then there’s the fact that you’ll be obviously moving a lot at high speeds, and this will mean that you get motion blur and other problems if you try to take the pictures yourself. Of course then there’s the chance that you’ll damage your camera if you’re participating in such extreme activities – by dropping it, bashing it against a wall, or submerging it under water. Understandably something like rally driving with its emphasis on high speed vehicles driving off road will involve a high chance of having a collision which could damage a camera. Meanwhile something like surfing holding a camera certainly isn’t going to be a good environment for a camera unless the camera is water proof as it will be likely to be submerged underwater (and again to be hit by the board or even lost if it gets washed away).
