Bull

Maybe posting that particular movie clip WAS a comment on your droving????

Any cinematic critic knows that a really good movie has to have Clint Eastwood and some animal that looks like GR in it!

cooleyjb

Intall a center rear view mirror in a formula car one time so you can check you hair just after the race and look at all the grief I get.

mglobe

oww.....owww

mglobe

Seriously,....no.

Hopefully the next vid I post will have a better picture, improved sound so you can hear the engine, and faster droving.

kurt M

69gaugeman

maybe next time don't take the mini-van

eclou

What kind of mount are you using? Is it a piece of duct tape connecting the camera to the rear glass or perhaps a bungee? J/K. I am pretty impressed with the suction cup mounts - The Gripper which is so strong it could probably serve as a tow point. I suction my cam to the rear side glass on the 997 and there is very little vibration as seen in my sig video

mglobe

I was using a small bullet type camera made by Oregon Scientific, mounted to a suction mount for a portable GPS. There was just too much play in the mount and the connection to between the camera and the mount. To make matters worse, the second run I tried using this rig, it fell off the back window. I've got footage of the carpet in the back as it rolls around.

The poor exposure is probably due to the fact that I mounted the camera on the back window so I could see my hands. I think the camera adjusted to the ambient light inside the car, giving the thermonuclear blast appearance.

The music (Albert King fwiw) covers the terrible sound of the camera's audio system being overloaded.

The slow driving? Well this is HWFMR, and it was the first time I've driven MSR. Oh yeah, and I never ever claimed I was fast.

Thanks for the tip on The Gripper. I'm going to order one.

kurt M

(Caution, content alarm!) Check with the groups you drove with. Some, such as the one I do most of my droving with, do not allow suction cup mounts. (content over, back to the thread that is already in progress)

Bull

No suction cup mounts allowed were I run either.

jgrant

I'd offer to post my most recent track video that I just took at Seattle, with my brand new Sony HD handicam with the fancy hard drive recording instead of tapes, with the super long-life battery, except all I got was about 4.5 hours of my car sitting in the paddock parked.

Seems that when I installed the camera, I accidentally turned it on, and every time I turned it "on" to head out on track, I was really turning it off.

*sigh*

But you REALLY have never seen such high-quality parked-car videos in your life...

mglobe

Are you applying for team videographer?

You know, in keeping with the title of this thread, you really should post some of that video. I may have to go back and get some of the video shot when my camera mount came loose and rolled around on the floor of my car.

Veloce Raptor

Post of the month.

jgrant

I'm now taking an hour of it and turning it into a 3 minute time lapse... which, actually, is turning out quite interesting. I'll post when it's done.

Bull

You may have saved yourself some frustration! Recently (last Christmas?) my wife went forth to buy me a surprise gift of the latest and greatest video camera. She was talked into one of the then most recent hard drive cameras. It drove me nuts for several events as I found that the combination of the hard mount to the roll cage and the stiff car suspension caused the hard drive to shut down before I ever exited the garages at each event. We tried softening the mounting, etc. with no solution. So, I now use that rather expensive hard drive camera in its alternative recording mode, which is using SD cards and changing them out every 30-40 mins of record time.

BTW, I once recorded the paddock at Mosport for an entire afternoon by doing the same trick that you pulled....great video of the staging area actually, with me jumping in the car and buckling in, then revving up the car, putting it in gear and reaching back and shutting off the camera......followed by the car car sitting in the same spot as the camera is turned on, I unbuckle and step out of the cage!