ja78911sc

I have a camera mounted on a harness bar. I am getting excessive wind noise on the video.

How can I reduce or eliminate?

Thanks,
Jim

bobt993

tape a small piece of paper towel over the mic.

bonehead

What camera are you using?

ja78911sc

Sony DCR-SX83 3.1 Mega Pixels Handycam.

JackOlsen

Try electrical tape, friction tape, even duct tape.

Does the camera allow for an external sound input?

Weirdly, I get the best sound from a $38 HD camera I have attached to my rear license plate, where you think I'd get a lot of noise.

ja78911sc

I can't locate a port for external sound input.

It appears the sound enters the camera below the lens on the front of the camera.

g-50cab

Band aid works too - Jack - what $38 HD camera?

bobt993

Band aid or vary the layers of paper towel over the mic. It really does work. You may need to experiment a bit. Your basically making a DIY wind screen. The camera was not designed for 70mph plus wind hitting the mic.

ja78911sc

Thanks for all the replies!

JackOlsen

It's a gimmicky little Chinese camera that's designed to look like a keychain fob. It's called the 808 #16, and it's the latest in the long line of steadily-improving keychain fob cameras. (I have no idea why someone would want a video camera shaped like a keychain fob.)

Here's a link to a review of the previous iteration, the #11.


It'll give you an idea of the capabilities of the thing. I add a wider-angle lens to my cameras, and use two in the cockpit and one on the rear license plate.

ja78911sc

Interesting Jack.

Do you have a half dozen you take with you to the track? or do you charge the camera's at the track?

Velcro the camera in place?

JackOlsen

I currently have four. I run a power line to each one (it's a USB cable), and use a big enough chip (32G) that I can pretty much run them all day. I attach them with electrical tape.

Here's a clip with three of them used. I switched to the rear camera's audio for the featured lap -- you can hear the improvement as I cross start/finish. As I mentioned, I got some inexpensive wide angle lenses that I glued in place. There are still a few things to work out (I added a filter to the front one that is making the image blurry on the left side).

There's a cut to a rear-view shot near the end.


If you've got a fast enough connection, it's better in 480p or 720p.

drdrank

This is awesome...I'm going to order some of these. Thanks!

bonehead

Wow. Interesting, inexpensive GoPro alternative. Would you mind taking pics of how/where you mounted the cams. Where do you get wide angle lenses for these??

bonehead

Jack
Also forgot to ask how you sync the audio from the rear cam to the front facing view?

BTW, I just LOVE your car (and I know this isn't the first time you've heard that, but thought I'd throw my lust for it into the mix)