MY HERO

Wish you were here. ... View from the GoPro Hero at good ol' A-Beach.

Well, the dog days of summer are here, and there hasn’t been a whole lot that’s inspired me to post of late.

So on Saturday, I decided to bail on the A-town second-hand smoke – courtesy the Santa Barbara/Cruz wildfires – and hit the beach with my new GoPro Hero waterproof digital camera.

As our dozen dedicated followers know, we here at The Bias occasional take a break from blogging about Manny and Co. to review cool gadgets like the GoPro Hero.

As many surfers know, there’s a real shortage of worthwhile waterproof cameras out there. And until a couple years ago, waterproof digitals were unthinkable. Too expensive. Too big. Too damn dangerous in the impact zone.

Stoked.

Enter: The Hero.

It’s fairly inexpensive as far as digitals are concerned (about $200). It’s small enough to strap to your wrist or mount on a helmet (for you mountain bikers and reef kooks). And the thing takes solid photos and surprisingly good video – considering you’re in choppy, blown-out surf half the time in Cali. these days.

I could go on and on about this thing, but I’ll let the video do the talking. And yeah, I’m on a long board, because the surf’s about as big as that camera (did I mention it’s less than 3 inches wide but holds nearly an hour of video or 2,000 photos on the 2GB SD card). Sick.

Pembertonian’s out there too, on the banana board, which explains why he hasn’t posted on The Bias in months. Bum.