5 reasons you'll want camera goggles the next time you ski

What better way to relive your adventures on the slopes than by capturing them on video? Here are five goodreasons why you'll want camera goggles the next time you ski this winter.

More than just a way to protect your eyes, camera ski goggles with a built-in camera are amazingly versatile:from catching scenery and wildlife while cross-country skiing, to giving viewers a first-person perspective of the amazing tricks you can pull off. Here arefive reasons why you'll want camera ski goggles when out skiing:

There used to be no easy way to capture breathtaking scenery, wildlife, or your skills on the slopes. It involved taking along a camera and film, and constantly worrying if you'd accidentally break it. Then, you would always have to stop to take photos.

• Recent improvements in technology have resulted in more compact, durable, high quality, and wearable cameras that can be mounted on helmets or your body—to the point of fitting into your ski goggles.

Camera ski goggles are great for capturing every second of the action and truly give a first-person perspective to whoever views the videos, whether for personal home viewing or on a video sharing website.

• These goggles integrate the camera right into the frame so there’s no bulky attachments and no reduction in comfort for the wearer, allowing them to focus on what’s important.
• They typically also have easy-to-use controls located on the sides of the goggles, allowing for touch control of what the camera is doing at any given time.

With many manufacturers creating their own versions for the market, there’s a wide and varied range of prices and features that are available.

• The price range typically starts around the $90 mark for a lower-quality pair, with just the basics included. However, the price can quickly jump up to (and beyond) the $400 mark for the best of the best.
• Typically, costlier ski goggles with built-in cameras come with many more features.

Features that can be included and will reflect in the price include:

• Lenses that won’t fog.
• Increased internal memory both built-in and through microSD card slots.
• Better battery systems—such as lithium-ion which currently give up to six hours of recording time under optimal conditions.
• Most camera ski goggles need to be charged directly, not through removing and replacing batteries.
• Higher-end cameras also include GPS tracking and tagging technology that allows for the user’s position to be tracked, as well as stamped, on the associated videos.

Customizability in the design of the goggles themselves allows for the user to not only colour coordinate with the rest of their attire, but also pick out the lenses that best suit the conditions in which their ski goggles will be used.

• Darker-tint goggle lenses can be chosen for bright, sunny days; lighter to no-tint lenses can be picked for cloudy or night-time conditions.

Whatever the reason for wanting to have a video record of your skiing adventure, choosing camera ski goggles can improve not only the quality of the video that you’re showing off to friends, family, and the world, but also drive your need to hit the slopes even further.