The Drifts all have standard camera mounts, so they have all the 'mounting flexibility' that it's possible to have. They are much more streamlined, and are weather resistant right out of the box.
They are more streamlined if pointed into the wind. They are less streamlined pointed sideways.
I guess we disagree on standard camera mounts being a benefit. I suppose I could go buy a bunch of RAM stuff to get the orientations I want, but the gopro stuff is smaller and purpose built for these things.
The Drift's two way remote control makes a self timer unnecessary, but the Ghost does have self-timer still capability.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the self timer in the gopro that allows it to take a photo every .5, 1, 2 or 5 seconds. It's a brilliant feature for doing timelapse photography.
You know that gopro has a two way remote also, right? With the keychain remote (the one I prefer) I have access to all the features of the gopro. If you want to use the IOS app then you get all that, plus can stream the video from the gopro and see what it's seeing like with the drift app.
GoPro nickels and dimes you to death, with Drift you don't pay extra for housings and displays, and mounts.
The housing comes with the gopro, so no nickels there unless you break it. In which case you probably would have to buy a new drift instead of just buying a new housing. As noted above, the mounts for drift aren't free either, you just buy them from someone other than drift. In my experience the RAM mounts are actually more expensive than the gopro mounts for comparable use cases.
You do have a point about the display. That's a significant cost to add one to the gopro3, but the flip-side is that if your using the IOS app to aim and control the cameras then you don't need the screen and, without it, the gopro is much smaller and half the weight. None of that really matters if your hooking it to a plane or a motorcycle helmet, but if your strapping them to a quadcopter or something then the gopro being half the weight and being more square makes a difference.
The Ghost's tagging feature is really nice, I don't think GoPro has anything like it.
Gopro does have this. They call it "looping" instead of tagging.
There's nothing wrong with the GoPro, but the Drift is superior in many ways.
So you keep asserting.
Sounds like drift is more streamlined as long as you want to point it forward, has a rotating lens and has a built in screen.
The gopro is smaller and lighter, has a replaceable housing instead of having to send the camera in for a repair, much better video capability (twice as fast FPS and adjustable FOV in all modes), far better aftermarket support, self timer capability.
In both cases you have to buy mounts from somewhere.
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