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On my camera case page I talked about a wearable helmet camera mounted to my mask. This page is about how I mounted it.

When I first purchased the camera (VholdR ContourHD) it came with several mounting attachments used to affix the camera onto various surfaces. The default one is a flat-surface mount with a sticky sheet that I simply slapped onto the side of my Vents mask. This worked for one weekend but the small Vents jewel sticker ended up coming loose toward the end, and the camera fell off. Very sad!

When this happened I knew I had to actually make something better suited to mount on my mask. For this I choose to replicate the factory Vents lens attachments (the items that hold the lens via the head strap). Long story short I ended up machining a completely new mount, designed to hold the camera's dovetail attachment perfectly. It looks like this:

The finished assembly is low profile compared to any attachments I could have made. It's also significantly stronger than the factory plastic parts used to hold the lens in place.

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