GoPro Etiquette

I always offer to share video with any of the opposing teams parents who happen to be close by when I'm setting up the go pro. Generally, that breaks the ice pretty quickly. I get email addresses, and then shoot them a link from my Google Drive.

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Had a promo code to get it for $20 last year. Great video....sound sucks.

sample video - https://youtu.be/M6uUnJTH9W4

tritonfastpitch said:

Another alternative - https://amzn.to/2G41WWf
Had a promo code to get it for $20 last year. Great video....sound sucks.

sample video - https://youtu.be/M6uUnJTH9W4

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I see that it has a 150 degree (probably diagonal) FOV. Are they adjustable? For example, GoPro uses terms like Wide, Medium, Narrow, Linear, etc. Does this have that? Or is it just fixed at wide.

That's my biggest complaint to devices that are only sold on Amazon and Ebay. If the spec's aren't completely listed, it is nearly impossible to find out without buying one.

Not adjustable. Usually not a problem on a straight fence, but seems to pick up the fence slightly on the bent ones. (using a lynkspyder)

I setup my cameras for a tournament about a month ago. First game, no issues. Second game, I started to notice issues with some parents from the other team. One of them came to me and ask me if I was recording, and I said, yes I’m recording my daughter. A few minutes later I have the tournament director on my back asking me to stop recording and to take my cameras down because I had not sign a “media release form”. I said I didn’t need a media release form because I was recording my daughter for private use. Asked him, what is the difference from my recording and those same parents from the other team who were complaining getting videos on their phones? He came up with an unconvincing answer. I decided to take the cameras down, but this is the last time I’m going to a tournament unprepared.

The organizers need to explicitly prohibit photography and/or video recording in the venue and they need to enforce it equally with people taking videos with their phones, otherwise they are discriminating against a particular party if they only ask that party to stop recording.

Since this tournament director didn’t expressly prohibit video recording, I was within my constitutional right to record video.

In any case, I’m thinking of going to my lawyer and ask for an affidavit stating that the recorded videos are for private use, and maybe a letter explaining the law around this, so the next time someone ask me to take the cameras down, instead of trying to explain, I just ask them to read the documents.

BTW... the other team was made up of girls that were basically rookies in the game, and the coaches were treating them like crap. One of the coaches even went to our parents and started screaming at some of them, which caused the game to stop and parents from our team and the coaches from the other team to engage in heated discussions. I understood right there why they wanted me to take the cameras down... funny.


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Pretty crazy FP. I've recorded almost everyone of my DD's games for many years. Never once had an issue and never even thought about it being an issue. I've gotta say, if someone said anything like that I'd probably just laugh, push the record button, and walk away. If you're in public, there's ZERO right to privacy and therefore recording is 100% legal.

That is crazy. I have been recording DD and her team for 2nd year 12u and 1st year 14u. Never had anyone say anything.

Usually talk to another team’s parent doing their recording about their set up.




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Wow! We've recorded almost every game for the past 3 three years and never had an issue. We have had parents from other teams that we know ask us to cut out specific plays or hits for them though Most people don't seem to care at all. It's not like you're filming them in some private place. They on a big open field at a ball park with cameras everywhere, like you said.

I had been filming my daughter for 3 years with no issues. Only one time someone asked if I was recording, and asked me if I was going to make it public, told her I was not, I was recording my daughter and she left me alone. This time, that didn’t work.

The only reason I took my cameras down was because the tournament director asked and I didn’t want to escalate it from there. But all this has the making of a lawsuit to protect my constitutional right, and that’s why I’m going to my lawyer.

The week after I was recording another tournament and had no issues.


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just be careful, a lot of the parks and fields, whomever controls it can limit photography/video recording (not saying they should, but they may be able to). but you are absolutely correct, if they ask one person not to, no one should be able to (I think I just saw another way for tourneys to extract money from us, video and photography permits!)