I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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On my GoPro first gen, there was at viewfinder that had an LED in there to let you know, but even then, when the camera was mounted, you couldn't really tell.
I bought a Hero2 to discover the viewfinder is gone and only an LED on the front of the camera lets you know if it's recording. That still doesn't help when the camera is mounted somewhere other than in front of your eyes, such as on the side or bottom of the bike, on the helmet or elsewhere.
I'm told by GoPro vendors all the time to buy a Hero3 (or, I guess it will be 4 now) and get phone syncing so I know for sure if it's recording, but that's just BS.
I liked the Contour with it's slide to record feature before the company went under. I hear they're coming back, but ... when.
Panasonic and Sony both make action cams, as well as a dozen other companies, but when all things are equal, I'm going Pentax. Or Ricoh now.