Video Setup For Trackdays
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From: Ask Rusty Shackleford.
Video Setup For Trackdays
A bunch of you fellas have some pretty cool setups for getting track day footage. Where did you guys order the mounts and how do they connect to the cameras? Are they camera specific?
Looking to get one for next year. LMK.
Cheers.
Looking to get one for next year. LMK.
Cheers.
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Here's where I got mine from:
http://www.modifry.com/products/mounts/camera/s-cup.htm
Under $50 delivered to my door. It's fairly basic, but perfect for what I want. It threads into a standard home video camera or still camera threading on the bottom, where you would mount a shoe for a tripod, which as far as I know is universal - every camera I've ever owned has had the same threading. I just use our Sony Handycam and with the adaptor plugged into the cigarette lighter (I've got a cigarette lighter to standard household plug adaptor I bought years ago at CDN Tire).
The only problems I've had are the camera mysteriously stopping in the middle of a session. I don't know why it's doing that.
Last Wednesday's video was a bit better than yesterday's - better white balance and less shaky, so obviously I've got to work with where I'm placing it. Of course, I was also driving faster yesterday
Videos are uploading to youtube as we speak.
http://www.modifry.com/products/mounts/camera/s-cup.htm
Under $50 delivered to my door. It's fairly basic, but perfect for what I want. It threads into a standard home video camera or still camera threading on the bottom, where you would mount a shoe for a tripod, which as far as I know is universal - every camera I've ever owned has had the same threading. I just use our Sony Handycam and with the adaptor plugged into the cigarette lighter (I've got a cigarette lighter to standard household plug adaptor I bought years ago at CDN Tire).
The only problems I've had are the camera mysteriously stopping in the middle of a session. I don't know why it's doing that.
Last Wednesday's video was a bit better than yesterday's - better white balance and less shaky, so obviously I've got to work with where I'm placing it. Of course, I was also driving faster yesterday
Videos are uploading to youtube as we speak.
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From: Ask Rusty Shackleford.
Thanks christian.
The camera might be stopping miduse because your car is now so stiff it's jolting the hard drive as it tries to write data. Ergo the price of being fast
The camera might be stopping miduse because your car is now so stiff it's jolting the hard drive as it tries to write data. Ergo the price of being fast
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Google "Hero Camera" about 200 bucks, all solid state, records in HD and comes with all kinds of mounts including a weatherproof housing. Results are astounding. Very small, about the size of a pack of flip top box cigs. Best bang for the buck I have ever seen.
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My camera's older than that - MiniDV, so tapes, not HD or SC card. It might be that the power adaptor is coming out of the cigarette lighter with the vibrations. I meant to tape it in yesterday, but forgot to.
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From: Ask Rusty Shackleford.
http://www.aiptek.com/Merchant2/merc...&Store_Code=AS
Paging Phil,
that's the camera you have, right?
Paging Phil,
that's the camera you have, right?
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Hi Bob, where did you find an HD version. I went to their website and only see the wide version with resolution of 512x384. I love my GoPro, but the resolution is too low for my needs, so I moved to an AIPTEK with a Filmtools mount. If they have an HD version of the GoPro, that would be great!
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GoPro HD was announced in July but it's not available yet.
http://helmetcameracentral.com/2009/...-cam-announce/
http://helmetcameracentral.com/2009/...-cam-announce/
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http://www.aiptek.com/Merchant2/merc...&Store_Code=AS
Paging Phil,
that's the camera you have, right?
Paging Phil,
that's the camera you have, right?
www.vacuummounts.com
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From: Ask Rusty Shackleford.
Yup, but it's this model: http://www.aiptek.com/Merchant2/merc...&Store_Code=AS I use the vacuum mount to secure it. Works well.
www.vacuummounts.com
www.vacuummounts.com
i wonder if it can be mounted on the outside of the car down low. one of the problems with our mosport vids is that they don't capture the sheer scale of the elevation changes. i feel that moving the camera mount lower to the ground would do so and would make for some wikid shots (if the mount and camera can survive my driving
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I have a cleat you could try next time Omar. Last year I used it to mount a point and shoot to the bumper at Mosport. The results were very shaky, but it held. Here's the vid, almost a year ago to the day!
http://vimeo.com/1762248
http://vimeo.com/1762248
