I'm in this sport for 34 years and doing tandems fool time for 12 years. I have a lot of jumps a lot of tandems and camera jumps. And I'm doing handycams for last 14 months. Ok. If you have to chose between outside video and handycams what is more dangerous? For 14 months I never had any problems with handycams. But doing tandem jump with cameraman I had so many times cameraman riding on my back on exit. I had several time cameraman hitting me in FF( one time it was so hard so I had to turn sideways other wise he would brake my neck). I had half conscious cameraman spinning in front of me so I had to push him away to open my parachute and he pulled the same time it was just luck that we didn't collide. I had cameraman falling inches from my nose on the opening and a lot of openings at the same high. Probably everybody remembers a few years ago cameraman killed tandem student. My point is that I feel much safer to jump with handycam than with the best cameraman in the world.
