The open tramp is essential in passing a high break. Though there are ofcourse also downsides to a net-tramp.
But sailing away from the beach with a normal tramp was sometimes impossible for me (pushed back).

Yes the angle of view is always the problem with cameras, I think. You never have the range of the human eye.

But with my Sanyo-camera, I think its rather good. Mind you; there is a straight horizon in the images and I'm hanging out almost just sidewards away from the camera.
I've no experience with a go-pro camera, but I'm now always out of the picture.

Which is good by the way.

ronald reeder