Simply Airsoft Guns

There are a range of options for mounting the camera on your body or airsoft guns. The best option is on your head or preferably a helmet using (of course) the helmet fitting. However it can be a quite heavy and if not wearing a helmet it can squeeze your head uncomfortably. The camera will also bounce as you run although this can be minimised using the supplied pads placed under the helmet fitting.

If you don’t wear the camera on your head you’ll have to make a compromise – either on your non-firing shoulder or on your gun, both of which have positives and negatives. You may be asking yourself ‘did he try mounting it on…’, the answer is yes, I tried the waist, legs, arms, firing shoulder (your face obscures the lens when you go to fire) and anywhere else I could think of.

On the non-firing shoulder: Great for first person shooter style videos and always looks in the direction of play.

On airsoft guns: Great for those ‘I got you!’ shots and of course if the cameras mounted on your gun it’ll always point at your target.

On the non-firing shoulder

After trying a few options I found this to be the best way to shoulder mount the camera. As you can see, the camera sits in the handlebar grip which is attached via it’s screw thread to a hole a made in the shoulder of my tac vest.

The camera angle is then fine tuned with cable ties through the scope cover holes, pulling the lens flat and almost completely removing any bounce while running.

This is a very easy mount, completely hands free, light and gives you a nice ‘Predator’ style cannon on your shoulder. It’s also incredibly stable and the results are impressive even when in a full sprint, as per the clip earlier in this article.

However, if you fire your gun you’ll pull your shoulder across and you’ll only get footage of your own gun, rather than the target. You can counteract this slightly by pointing the camera outwards, but short of having it facing sideways during non-firing moments it’s likely you won’t see who you were shooting at.

On airsoft guns

Simply mount the camera using the provided velcro strap tied around the gun body.

This is great except that the actual time spent shooting at targets is very little and the rest of your footage will be the camera looking at the ground. Also the camera does add to the weight of the gun; not a problem for me but some may find it an issue.

Which mounting you use is up to you. If you were filming throughout the day you could quite easily change it round and have a great days worth of different angles to post edit.

The microphone

As mentioned, the microphone is very sensitive so should be mounted as far away from sound sources as possible. Mine is threaded down my tac vest and clipped on at my lower back, with talking and gun sound volumes well balanced.

The Finished Product

Here’s some pictures of the finished product, fully mounted on my non-firing shoulder.

Note: For those eagle-eyed players you’ll notice the camera is on my right shoulder as I’m left handed.