I played around with a few different ways to mount the camera to my pack, in the end I found that I needed to be able to change the batteries and settings quickly. So, I used the stock camera case and mounted it to my camelback strap. A cheap caribeaner provides some extra security. here's a few pictures:








All of my recent movies were shot with a viosport adventure 3 camera plugged into a Sony DCR-HC85 miniDV camera. I use a LANC remote to trigger the recording whichs is very user friendly... so I can focus on riding!

Here are pictures of my older camera set-up, a Samsung sc-x105l. A few hop-ups go a long way to geting the most out of this camera. I picked up a few sb-p180a batteries- you can get these off eBay for $10 each. These have double the run-time of the stock batteries, I carry a few so I always have spare charged batteries with me. Another worthy upgrade is a 2gb memory stick. combined with the 512mb of built-in memory, this gives me about 90 minutes of recording time at the highest quality. This goes a long way when it's so easy to start / stop recording while you ride!




Mounting:
Getting the aim and mounting correct is really the hardest part. Here's how I set it up: first I bought some heavy-duty adhesive velcro at an office supply store. I trimmed a "fuzzy side" piece so that it fit perfectly on the back of the stock helmet-cam holster, and stuck it on. I trimmed a "hooky side" piece to the same size, and set that aside. Next I loosely duct-taped the camera on to my helmet, and rode around my neighborhood, checking the video and adjusting the camera as I went. After about twenty minutes of this, the aim seemed pretty good.  So I went home and carefully marked the helmet where the edges of the holster sat; removed the camera and holster; and adhered the "hooky side" velcro piece on to the helmet. I did this for both my full face and XC helmets. So now when I am ready to shoot some footage, I just line the two sides of velcro up, push the camera on to the helmet,  and i am ready to film. Here are some pictures of my set-up: