Contour, a market leader in hands-free video cameras, today announced Contour+, Contour's first camera for the broadcast and pro-sumer markets. The Contour+ marks the next progression in hands-free video and represents the company's continued focus on leading the market’s innovation. The Contour+ is now available at Contour.com and retail partners for $499.
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Nowhere on Earth is off limits to filmmakers and other visual storytellers, but there are plenty of places standard pro cameras can’t go,” said Marc Barros, Contour CEO. “
Contour+ delivers high-quality video, audio, location data and streaming capabilities anywhere there’s a story to tell. Today, anyone can be a documentarian or filmmaker, and we’ve created the most affordable way to give pro-sumers, broadcast and filmmakers everything they need to tell incredibly rich stories from right within the action.”
The hands-free and wireless technology that has established Contour’s technical leadership in the market is augmented with progressions in the lens, first-ever features in the hands-free market, and more to create a new era in the technical side of storytelling. The camera's powerful and unique combination of technical features has piqued the interest of industry tastemakers including Film Producer and Freeride Entertainment Director, Derek Westerlund:
| Hands-free is a big revolution in the camera space, but we haven't had anything that was progressive enough to use on professional shoots until now. The Contour+ allows me to capture great POV shots and will help bring the movie's story to life. The Contour+ is the new standard for next generation, high-quality, hands-free cameras. |
Greg Tracy, a renowned stunt driver and filmmaker who has worked on feature films such as “Bourne Ultimatum," “Wanted," and "The Town,” looks forward to using the new Contour+ on his upcoming professional shoots.
| When I'm shooting action, I love to put the audience in the middle of it and experience it first-hand. With the Contour+, I'll be able to do this like never before. With its professional-grade lens, connectivity options and size, the Contour+ is the perfect tool for my demanding production work, and it won't break the bank. |
The next progression in hands-free cameras lets explorers:• Expand Field of Vision: A six-element glass lens delivers 1080p video quality, an adjustable white balance to dial-in details and a 170-degree field of view to clearly integrate peripherals and backdrops in each shot
• Deliver Live Action: Streaming video via HDMI and an external transmitter broadcasts the action in real-time
• Stay Connected Better than any POV Camera: Built-in Bluetooth connects to a mobile phone, creating a wireless viewfinder to check the angle; a HDMI port allows instant replay on a laptop or widescreen direct from the included microSD card
• Capture Crisp Audio: The first external 2.5mm microphone jack on any hands-free camera helps distinguish featured audio from ambient noise
• Benefit from Contour’s Signature Elements: Three resolutions, four frame rates and a five-megapixel still mode are available to customize the shot; an internal interactive GPS receiver tracks speed, location, and elevation at four frames per second
• Shipping today from Contour.com, the Contour+ is also available from Amazon.com; B&H Photo, Video, and Pro-Audio; Gear Co-Op, Paragon, and Samy’s Camera. Contour’s complete collection of high quality, easy-to-use cameras, including the ContourGPS and ContourHD, provide a variety of solutions to fit every adventurer’s need. The company helps people further share their stories with its free apps and online community.
Learn about the Contour GPS we saw at
Sea Otter here.
About Contour:
Contour is a market leader in the hands-free video camera category. Producing simple, thoughtfully designed and intuitive adventure storytelling tools, Contour, enables modern day explorers to use video and location-based video to relive and replay their personal tales of action, adventure and travel, sharing them with world at the touch of a button. For more information about Contour please visit www.contour.com.
They are easier to turn on/off with the slide switch, less bulky, better sound quality, and better made than the gopro, and they have rechargeable batteries which last, so you don't have to keep buying expensive lithium batteries which don't seem to last that long in the gopro.
Contours are the bomb. Period.
The gopro's picture quality is much better, it has a much better lens with a much bigger field of view, way more mounting options and about sound quality all you have to do is switch the backpiece with the other one it came with.
And yeah the gopro is more weighty and more bulky but its much less likely to break.
The gopro is also cheaper.
Just go on the gopro site then the contour site to compare the footage (gopro is clearly better)
i am not satisfied from the image quality........i am trying to sell it now...
The TV companies know what camera is better hence they use GoPro's. Period.
As a chestcam user I wonder the following: has anyone ever managed to mount a contour on a fullface helmet without having a part of the helmet in the view?
Can't figure how to accomplish that with the Contour yet. However I'd like to give it a try, cause the thing that bothers me most on the GoPro is the bad on\off buttons.
Hopefully with easier to use buttons and the bluetooth/wifi connectivity.
I'll definitely wait for it.
just for the wider angle (170 vs 135) and live streaming -via HDMI and external transmitter.
How the "external transmiter" works is not explained on contour website.
Thanks,
Joe
I LIKE THE 135 DEGREES....WHY THEY CHANGE IT? 135 IS PERFECT,NO DISTORTION!!!!!!!
but theres the shipping fee