The Contour GPS has been a much anticipated release, just when you thought helmet camera technology had gone so far with now offering true HD we are now blessed with the Contour GPS offering a built in
GPS receiver capable of tracking your location multiple times per second for amazing accuracy as well as measuring speed and elevation. Being a dirt bike nut this feature has got me very excited, the thought of coming home and checking out were weve been riding and the speeds at wich we travelled will be awsome.
Still capable of capturing true HD and this new model has the ability to capture stills at 5 mega pixels with 5 different rates available being 3,5,10,30 or 60.
Other obvious advancements from the
Contour 1080p is the ability to run a 32 GB SD card giving you up to 8 hrs of continuous filming in 1080p
First ImpressionsThe first things you notice when comparing the
Contour GPS to the
Contour 1080p is the new on/off slide control wich is now more raised and has a knurled finish making it ideal for sports were gloves are worn.
The back door has also undergone a upgrade, now with a locking mechanism and pinned hinge certainly a step in the right direction. The other cool thing that stood out straight away was the inclusion of a rubber lens cap a small thing but certainly a good thing.
Whats Included Definitely some improvements here the Contour GPS comes with 2 of the new rotating flat surface mounts and 2 lanyards. You'll also recieve a goggle mount, battery, Usb cable for charging and downloading as well as 2GB SD card this really is everything you need to get your new helmet cam up and running although I do suggest adding in at least a 16 GB card.
Software and UpgradesContour have released a new upgrade for the GPS being Firmware version1.09 improves camera timing performance to eliminate potential camera “lock-ups” associated with v1.02 and improves video image quality with respect to white balance and light to dark transitions compared to v1.02 and v1.07. to test which version of firmware is in your camera simply connect the camera to your computer and open the TXT file to reveal the data shown in the screen shot below
- Download firmware version 1.09 to the desktop. It should be named contour_GPS.bin
- Plug the ContourGPS camera into the computer using a USB cable.
Do NOT turn it on. Once connected, the ContourGPS camera will appear as
an external USB device on your computer.
- Open a computer file system window and navigate to the camera, now mounted as an external device on your computer.
- Copy the firmware file from your desktop to the root level of the camera’s file system.
- Properly unmount the camera from your computer. Once unmounted, unplug the camera from the computer.
- Locate the “hidden button” on the camera. The hidden button is
located just in front of the record slider when the record slider is in
the “stop” position. When the record slider is in the “record”
position, the hidden button is covered by the slider. If you press down
just in front of the record slider, you will feel the plastic
underneath the record slider give as the button depresses.
- Once you locate the hidden button, you are ready to upgrade the
camera’s firmware. First press and release the power button on the
camera.
- As soon as the lasers come on, press and hold down the hidden
button. Hold the hidden button down until the camera beeps AND the
battery and SD card LEDs on the back of the camera flash red in an
alternating pattern. This should occur within 5 seconds.
- As soon as the SD card and battery LEDs start flashing in this manner, you can release the hidden button.
- Once the LEDs stop flashing red and the camera beeps twice, the
upgrade is complete. This generally takes no longer than 30 seconds.
- Connect the camera to your computer with the USB cable and
delete the contour_GPS.bin file from the camera’s SD card to free up
storage space.
