Camera Choice: Cycle Touring Documentary?

[Tulpa]

Dear Eoshd members,

I've been a long time lurker and it's clear that there are some with an exceptional wealth of experience here.

I used to be quite up to speed with the latest camera tech but completely fell off a cliff about 3 years ago. I'm not so sure a lot has happened since then, but I would be curious to have your insights on what would make a solid camera choice for an upcoming project that I'm moving towards.

The project involves cycling around the world for several years under all kinds of conditions and producing a cinematic documentary about it.

I know that many use things like GoPro, Insta 360 etc with decent results. But I'm wondering what you folks would use to obtain your results if you were to embark on such an adventure and why?

I'd be grateful for any insights or observations any of you may have!

[eatstoomuchjam]

If it's being mounted to the bike, then yes, any of the current crop of decent action cameras would be a good choice, especially assuming that some parts of the tour would be in the rain or dusty areas, etc.  Even better yet if they can pair directly with the manufacturer's wireless microphone system (DJI and Insta360 both do this).  This can also be augmented with any halfway decent modern phone.

Otherwise, if you wouldn't want to go the action camera+phone route, I'd find the smallest and lightest camera on the market with decent weatherproofing and go with that, making sure that all of the lenses are similarly weather-sealed.  There are lots of used options, especially that are M43 mount, that would be good fits for small and light and can give better results than an action camera.  Better than 1080p is nice, but as far as I know, any festival will still accept it as a resolution.  More than 4K is realistically unnecessary unless you plan to crop/reframe in post.

[Tulpa]

5 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

If it's being mounted to the bike, then yes, any of the current crop of decent action cameras would be a good choice, especially assuming that some parts of the tour would be in the rain or dusty areas, etc.  Even better yet if they can pair directly with the manufacturer's wireless microphone system (DJI and Insta360 both do this).  This can also be augmented with any halfway decent modern phone.

Otherwise, if you wouldn't want to go the action camera+phone route, I'd find the smallest and lightest camera on the market with decent weatherproofing and go with that, making sure that all of the lenses are similarly weather-sealed.  There are lots of used options, especially that are M43 mount, that would be good fits for small and light and can give better results than an action camera.  Better than 1080p is nice, but as far as I know, any festival will still accept it as a resolution.  More than 4K is realistically unnecessary unless you plan to crop/reframe in post.

Thank you for this eatstoomuchjam.
And if you you could have your pick of camera and lens, do you know what that would be? 10bit and 4k as a minimum with good low light capabilities?
I'm not only considering shooting from the bicycle, but collecting stories from the situations with people along the way.
Any thoughts?