Originally Posted by AnTyx

Take a minute and think about what Itchy Boots' days are like. She'll ride for a few hundred kilometers or less, see one or two interesting things, arrive at her hotel for the night (and she needs a nice hotel with good wifi and electricity every night, with the cost and flexibility limitations there), then she'll spend the rest of her evening editing the footage and uploading the episode.

Or think of Ed March. He'll spend a few weeks travelling, and then a month literally doing nothing else but cutting together a single hour-long episode. AND a lot of his riding involves setting up a tripod, riding past it, then coming back to pack it up on the bike before moving on!

That's fine for them - they've built up a lot of skill and experience at it, and this is literally what they do for a living - but if you're not already an accomplished video editor, I suggest you don't try to start.

Filming your trip with the intention of making a video from it will almost inevitably fail OR ruin your experience. The way to produce a memory of your trip is to write a book about it - after you return.

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The best camera is the one you have in your hand when you need it. Therefore, get a phone with the best camera you can afford. I've recently switched to the iPhone 13 Mini, but I would recommend getting one of the newer Android phones, because for the same money you will get both a wide-angle AND a telephoto lens in your device. I own a nice Sony DSLR with multiple lenses, but 99.9% of the time, my smartphone takes photos that are good enough for my purposes. A good optical zoom is the only thing I truly miss, especially now that phones are also very good at night shots.

If you can afford a GoPro, get one, and get the newest one. Their stabilization, video quality, extra features, and convenience of use get better with every generation. Get a bunch of extra mounts for it - they're cheap - and set them up all over your bike, so that you can change the gopro's placement around for diverse shots.

And finally, if you ramble on inside your helmet and want to provide a running commentary:

A helmet speaker system with a camera built in, like the Sena 50C. There are very faffy ways to rig an external microphone separately in your helmet going to your GoPro, or to a sound recorder and then add your voice to the video in post-production, but only the 50C-type of setups will record your helmet audio onto the footage you make right away, without additional unreliable bullshit.