Where Do You Mount A Rylo Camera Roller Coaster

Seldi is a habiliment mount / rig, with many uses, including hands-free POV or selfie videos, such as with a telephone, action camera, or 360 camera. I was able to try out a prerelease version and hither are my hands-on impressions, and a sample video.

Seldi wearable rig hands-on impressions — Seldi wear rig hands-on impressions

Updated: Apr 30, 2018
First posted: April 23, 2018

One of my favorite types of mounts for a 360 photographic camera is a hands-free chest mount. You may have seen me apply i with my GoPro Fusion in this 360 video:

For that video, I used a typical chest mount for GoPros, and an extension arm. With a 360 camera on that mount, I was able to shoot a selfie and POV video at the same time, hands-gratis, then I could be 'present' with my family and fully bask the Cars Country ride.

One trouble with the chest mount I used is that the strap around the neck was a flake elastic, so the camera bounced up and down every bit I walked. I thought to myself, wouldn't it be dainty if the strap were rigid, so that it would perhaps exist more stable?

Well, I was contacted by Seldi, a startup visitor that makes a multipurpose, wearable mountain:

I establish the design interesting considering it could be used in many ways, such as a double-handle rig, a stand for a selfie stick, a stabilizer, and every bit a habiliment mount either for POV or selfie videos. And different the chest mount I had used, information technology was rigid, and moreover, faster to article of clothing. To show yous the ways it can exist used, here's their promo video:

Every bit you can see from the video, Seldi tin exist used for whatsoever type of camera with a standard 1/4-20 tripod hole, including smartphones, action cameras, and 360 cameras.

Seldi mount is compatible with many types of cameras

As I started envisioning how well this would work for roller coasters and other rides, I worried near it falling off me, if the ride went upside down. Fortunately, the Seldi includes a trunk strap accessory (among other accessories):

Seldi wearable rig with body strap accessory — Seldi wear rig with trunk strap accessory

HANDS-ON IMPRESSIONS

Seldi sent me a prerelease version for testing, and I got to endeavor it out over the weekend. Here are my outset impressions.

The Seldi is made of a reasonably sturdy plastic. It's not heavy (nigh 200 grams). Build quality is adept, although my copy had a squeaking sound at the hinge whenever I arrange the frame.

Ergonomics

Ergonomically, the Seldi is reasonably comfy and was indeed faster to use than a chesty mount (unless yous utilise the strap — see below). However, my [large] caput barely fit the frame and the frame would rub against my ears when I put it on or remove it.

Camera attachment

You can attach a camera on the Seldi in three ways. On the front end office of the frame, there is a mounting bar where you lot tin can adhere a camera using the included 1/iv-20 bolt. The camera can be mounted on the bar vertically or horizontally. Y'all can too adhere a camera on the rear frame, toward the dorsum of the neck.

If y'all attach a camera to the Seldi using the bolt straight, yous won't be able to adjust the bending of the camera in relation to the frame. However, in addition to a 1/four-20 bolt, the Seldi includes a 1/4-20 to GoPro-mountain adapter, and a GoPro-mount to 1/4-twenty adapter which enable you to adapt the camera angle just you won't be able to control the management that the photographic camera faces.

Instead, I fastened a ballhead (from my Benro MK10) to the bolt. The ballhead immune me to adapt the camera bending, too as fix the camera direction whatsoever style I want, securely.

The Seldi works much better with a ballhead

Stability

In terms of stability, the Seldi is indeed more than stable than a GoPro-fashion chest mount. As I mentioned higher up, the result with the GoPro style chest mount is that it has an elastic neck strap, so my camera would bounce up and downward when I used the chest mount with an extension arm.

On the Seldi, the camera remains in position and is more stable. For maximum stability, you tin utilize the included body strap. With the body strap, the Seldi was stable even on a roller coaster.

Sample video

I'm still working on a complete video review for the Seldi but in the meantime, here is a sample clip I shot on the Seldi and Insta360 One while riding bump cars (I used the body strap).

Where to get information technology

In the meantime, if y'all want to get an early bird cost on the Seldi, it's available on Kickstarter here. You can besides check their website here. It's a crowdfunded project, just they announced to have a very good track record. This is actually their fifth crowdfunding campaign. They've already delivered two,000 units to backers from their four previous crowdfunding campaigns in Korea and in Japan since June 2016, which increases the probability that they can successfully deliver to their backers once more for their global Kickstarter campaign. They expect to ship units to backers in June 2018. Information technology will too eventually exist available on Amazon.

What do you think of the Seldi? Whatsoever particular uses you'd like me to test out? Let me know in the comments!