I’m trying to mount an action cam to my FAST airsoft helmet, and I’ve got the j-hook baseplate already installed, but with just the baseplate the camera’s FOV is still way too high.

I cannot bring the camera lower than this using just the baseplate, so I thought I’d just buy an extension that will let me swivel the camera further down, but I tried searching for it and couldn’t find anything.

This is how I’ve got the camera set up now, and this is how I want it to be. I need the green part, which is just a male-to-female extension part, but I don’t exactly know how to search for it, as anything I try comes up blank. I know this part exists, because I’ve seen it a few times before, and of course right as I try to search for it, it conveniently disappears as if it had never existed. Can anyone help me out?

EDIT: Thanks for the answers! Simply searching “gopro mount extension” was enough to find what I needed. I feel stupid now.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    4·
    14 days ago

    I’m assuming you can’t invert the mount on the helmet. Reverseing the cam so it’s higher but pointing down, may work without any new parts.

    If you can invert the mount, that may be the best.

    Or to answer your direct question. Maybe “GoPro mount extension.”

    • brachypelmasmithi@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      14 days ago

      Unfortunately no. The swivel range gets severely reduced when I invert the mount, stopping with the camera pointing basically upwards at the mount’s farthest point.

      Searching “GoPro mount extension” did bring up what I wanted though, so thank you!

      • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I think you may have misunderstood what I meant by inverting the mount. You need to invert the camera with it.

        Then you can easily point it down 10-20°, away from the sky.
        The camera should automatically rotate the video 180° for you. Even if it doesn’t, that’s super easy to do in any editing software.