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#1 Guest_skiddo (Guest)

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 12:14 PM

got myself a dv cam for my birthday and have been looking at ways to mount it and have a play around... i saw paulb's set up at brunters - not possible for us un-modded guys. so ricky, ben or anyone who's doing it, how and with what. i tried a little experiment with this set up...

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#2 Guest_skiddo (Guest)

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 12:19 PM

:blink: a bit wobbly, but i reckon a couple of hooks and 2 small light chains hooked around the ball sprigget under the camera bracket and fixed onto the grill would keep it pretty steady and make some nice cuts for a stretch of country road shot once from in-car and once from tow-eye cam. before anybody is stupid enough to try it, make sure that any bounce can't anti-clockwise loosen the tow eye!!! can you imagine.

Edited by skiddo, 19 October 2003 - 12:31 PM.

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 12:30 PM

in-car is a struggle at the minute. finding a fixing point and having room to lock-off the magic arm is very difficult.... so little of the interior is actually solid! :blink:

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Edited by skiddo, 19 October 2003 - 12:30 PM.

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 12:48 PM

looks good skiddo - that tow eye cam would produce excellent footage but you 'd have to have some serious faith in the mount! :blink: Not so sure I'd trust it myself. What's our resident engineer Steve Crisp got to say on the matter...?

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 01:07 PM

I'm going to sit about and look >here< and gurgle.....mmmMMmmm, universal double suction mount....:)

I've no idea if the company are any good or anything, but they seem to be pimping some serious kit.

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 01:11 PM

looks good skiddo - that tow eye cam would produce excellent footage but you 'd have to have some serious faith in the mount! :blink:  Not so sure I'd trust it myself.

My biggest concern with externally mounted kit is impact damage off gravel and stuff. I was thinking about constructing some sort of foam enclosure, crude but effective.

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 01:28 PM

foam case is a great idea, ben. adjustable strap fixed top of bonnet to camera bracket would stop flex better than the chain idea, too - now i think about it...

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 01:30 PM

Surely pencil cams with analogue feed via a long cable to the camera safely inside the car is the way to go. Although that double suction mount does look the business.

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 01:52 PM

http://www.b-hague.c...ng Brackets.htm

The wall mounting screwed to the back is good.

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 02:47 PM

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Posted 19 October 2003 - 02:52 PM

Sample frame from my Sony PC101 DVcam mounted on above set-up:

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Posted 20 October 2003 - 09:10 AM

Surely pencil cams with analogue feed via a long cable to the camera safely inside the car is the way to go.

In that case, take a look at >RF Concepts<. They have loads of small cameras that attach to your camera via long cables. That link takes you to the bit about attaching them to helmets but gives a broad taste of the stuff they sell. Again, I've not used them but they seem to do it all..

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Posted 20 October 2003 - 12:42 PM

This might be of help

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Posted 20 October 2003 - 01:08 PM

Mine are all from RF Concepts.

Details here.

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Posted 22 October 2003 - 02:04 PM

Don't underestimate those suction mounts. We stuck one on the wing of a glider and went flying in the mountains and it was still there after landing!!

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Posted 22 October 2003 - 06:31 PM

Look HERE

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Never read some of these posts at the time.

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Posted 22 October 2003 - 06:32 PM

Look HERE

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Posted 24 October 2003 - 03:09 PM

This might be of help

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Bought this. Will let you know if it is any good when I receive it....
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