First, a cotton undershirt or tank top under your regular video shopper shirt helps protect you from the heat generated by the camera. Second, the battery pack can become very warm on long shops. Depending on where/how you stow that, the undershirt halps the dhopper to stay more comfortable.
Who wears undershirts? Video shoppers.
My cam is always shirt-mounted. Others have a bra mount or, for the guys, use an elastic chest band and secure the cam to that. I greatly prefer the shirt mount because it is easier to adjust if I am sitting in a low chair at a desk and need to move the cam up a bit. I can just grasp the shoulder seams of my shirt, as if I was feeling a bit "sticky" from humidity, and pull the shirt up a bit, thus bringing the cam above the height of the desktop.
Finally, Kathy, at Instant Replays, has a side buisness of modifying shirts for shoppers and law enforcement folks and actually has a patent on a system that she uses to secure the cam to the shirt. That works for most body types, but not well for me, so I just use the cam and button to secure the camera to my shirt, placing it all one hole lower than most, so that I am shooting just a bit "up" and getting the torso and head of the target about 90 % of the time. YMMV.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/10/2014 12:47PM by walesmaven.