How come the fish in my GoPro footage look so small?

[Megabeast]

The title says it all. The fish look miniscule when I go back and watch the footage. I had a monster 25-30lb red snapper swim up on my yesterday, and when I viewed the footage it looked about 12lbs. Triggerfish I had speared that were pretty decent sized looked like babies on the end of my polespear. Is there a zoom setting, or is it because I use a head mount and the camera is farther away from the target then if I were to use a gun mount?

Thanks in advance.

PS. Go ahead, get it out of your systems and tell me to shoot bigger fish :rolleyes:

[North Star]

Do you have it set on R-5? Are you using a flat lens? As I understand it, R-5 with a flat lens makes the fish look closer/bigger than any other setting.

Oh - and shoot bigger fish!

[aussie]

The title says it all. The fish look miniscule when I go back and watch the footage. I had a monster 25-30lb red snapper swim up on my yesterday, and when I viewed the footage it looked about 12lbs. Triggerfish I had speared that were pretty decent sized looked like babies on the end of my polespear. Is there a zoom setting, or is it because I use a head mount and the camera is farther away from the target then if I were to use a gun mount?

Thanks in advance.

PS. Go ahead, get it out of your systems and tell me to shoot bigger fish :rolleyes:

Perspective distortion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-angle_lens)

xo

[Megabeast]

Do you have it set on R-5? Are you using a flat lens? As I understand it, R-5 with a flat lens makes the fish look closer/bigger than any other setting.

Oh - and shoot bigger fish!

I am using the flat lens.

I am slightly ashamed to say... I don't know what the R-5 is :(

[2fishin2]

ive been told the r3 setting is better. check out the manual and it will show you how to change to the different settings.

[fishspearit]

I am slightly ashamed to say... I don't know what the R-5 is :(

If you have the Hero 2, the 1080 setting is the same as R-5 on the original Hero, and I believe what used to be the R-3 is the 960 setting on the H2.

[SpearsouthFL]

Post up the footage.

[Megabeast]

Post up the footage.

It has to be editted... 2.8 gigs.

[SpearsouthFL]

If you dont have editing software. Download mpeg streamclip for free off squared5.com i believe? And compress the shit out of it. Or just take a screengrab it will
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[jfjf]

The title says it all. The fish look miniscule when I go back and watch the footage. I had a monster 25-30lb red snapper swim up on my yesterday, and when I viewed the footage it looked about 12lbs. Triggerfish I had speared that were pretty decent sized looked like babies on the end of my polespear. Is there a zoom setting, or is it because I use a head mount and the camera is farther away from the target then if I were to use a gun mount?

Thanks in advance.

PS. Go ahead, get it out of your systems and tell me to shoot bigger fish :rolleyes:

Gives you a whole nuther perspective on those shark videos huh???

What camera do you have?

... wide angle catches everything in the frame, but makes everything look farther away. It is, as far as I know, an unavoidable consequence of light refraction.

[Megabeast]

Sorry I haven't responded guys. I've got finals this week, last one tommorrow. I'm going diving Sunday and have the whole next week off. I'm going to handle all this video stuff after that.

Thanks for all your input. Really appreciate it.