Best way to find a lost Contour cam?

[el hefe]

Just got a Roam 2 with 3 days on it. Had a bad knees to the face bail off of a big double stager and the camera was ripped off by my knee. Tried looking for it twice and no dice. There was a pretty good sluff coming down as I ate it so hard searching.

Thinking about renting a metal detector, it is a bit of a slog in on the sled but should be doable.

Any advice? Will a metal detector work on the limited metal (alu?)?

[Caucasian Asian]

Mark the area off with flagging tape and head back out in the summer?

[sb]

metal detector

[Dee Hubbs]

If you have access to a Recco searcher, it will pick it up.

[skimaxpower]

If you have access to a Recco searcher, it will pick it up.

This is good to know.

Mark the area off with flagging tape and head back out in the summer?

This was my original thought. Good excuse for a summer day-hike?

[el hefe]

summer will be pretty hard to get in compared to using sleds. Going to try and find a rental metal detector and put it on the cheetah rack.

[nickel]

Will a recco receiver really find a contour camera? Is this something specific to the contour? If not, what exactly is it picking up on?

[el hefe]

So there are 2 types of metal detectors that I can rent. One is for ferrous metal only and will detect anything up to 4 ft.

The other is a precious metal and will only go to about 6" down. Any one a metallurgist? I emailed contour to see what they have in the inside as I am sure the outside is aluminum

[el hefe]

Just tested a couple of detectors on my old contour and they only pick it up at about 6" away. I am thinking a metal rake will work better....? It was sluffing pretty good so I am sure it has set up over the week and we just got about 10cm on top of that.

[PNWbrit]

Will a recco receiver really find a contour camera? Is this something specific to the contour? If not, what exactly is it picking up on?

Yes it will.

It's the circuitry that reflects a signal.

There are previous threads of peoples cams being found using it.

Getting hold of a RECCO unit outside of one that has been donated by the manufacturer to a ski area might be more difficult than finding the camera unaided though?

[nickel]

Interesting. So You're saying someone with a cell phone in their pocket can be found with a recco receiver just as easily as a regular recco tag/reflector?

Sorry about the thread jack. To the op, I would skip the precious metal detector, and when you did your at home test, did you do it in an area with no other nearby metal or electro-magnetic signals? If not that would explain the six-inch range...

[PNWbrit]

Interesting. So You're saying someone with a cell phone in their pocket can be found with a recco receiver just as easily as a regular recco tag/reflector?

Yep.....

[Hugh Conway]

I've not used one, but my understanding is it'll work but it's not "just as good". Nerdery link:
http://electronics.stackexchange.com...d-recco-system

[snoboy]

Interesting. So You're saying someone with a cell phone in their pocket can be found with a recco receiver just as easily as a regular recco tag/reflector?

NO! That is not entirely true. The Recco reflector is optimized for the system frequency, and thus gives a decent range for detection. Other electronic devices may or may not act as reflectors, and if they do they will normally have a reduced range of detectability.

[nickel]

Thanks for the link Hugh, I won't pretend that it isn't a ways above my weight class, but I learned some things.

I'm not saying it's as good, but let's be real, it's not a system with a ton of real world useful applications.

[el hefe]

Found it! Super stoked. Used a collapsible tool that is used for building mtn bike trails, only took about 5 minutes of digging/searching. Too bad the last video clip won't work for some reason, it would have been a gooder

[volklpowdermaniac]

damn, and i hear i was thinking we all narrowly avoided more helmet cam clips.

[el hefe]

^^ don't like it don't watch it.... I am not one to post shit inbounds crap.

[grskier]

Please post you eating shit to this thread....

[el hefe]

Trying, the last vid crapped out, either from my knee hitting the cam or maybe the battery/card dying while it sat there. It shows on the card but is not accessible.

It was about a 60ft+ combo to knee in face.