I took out the camera for a day at the Grahamstown paintball field this past Saturday.
It was quite hot there on the field as the mercury peaked at 36*C, and went down to 31*C by the time we stopped play. This brings me to my first gripe, but arguably this would happen with any camera inside an enclosure: fogging. The inside of the waterproof housing fogged up and made the second round pretty blurry, but not impossible to see. You will see this in the second video linked below. Cleaning it out with a dry rag helps, but not 100%. I will probably get some antifog spray and use that on the interior sometime.
Other than that, it performed well, but I will need to change the mount sometime soon. Because the lens is on the left hand side of the body of the camera, mounting it on the right hand side of my mask meant that half of the image would be filled by my mask. Changing it to the left side of my mask worked, but because then it isn't in line with the paintball marker, you end up looking into the tires more than anything else.
Battery was still good after 45mins of filming, and it showed 3/3 bars on the LCD display. I ran the batteries down when I got home, and total runtime was around 1h50min from a full charge. Since they claimed a 30min battery life, I cannot complain.
The standard bike mount is crap and broke on the first attempt. Methinks a proper GoPro mount is in order if I ever want to mount this on the barrel or anywhere other than my mask.
I filmed at 60fps to try and capture the flying paint as best I could, but I also had to keep the size down as uploading videos on a 512kbps line is proving to be very frustrating, so please excuse the quality. And yes, I played like crap yesterday, but it made for good target practice...
EDIT: In the first video right at the end, I am arguing with my friend who said I shot him while he had his hand up (thus indicating he has been hit and in the process of respawning), but I never did...we still don't know where that shot came from...
The videos should be live in a few hours, as they are still uploading here
Gung Ho Paintball Discount Day - 07 March 2015 (part 1) - YouTube Gung Ho Paintball Discount Day - 07 March 2015 (part 2) - YouTube