Mounting camera question
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Mounting camera question
Iono if it belongs in this section or not, and I'm sorry if it doesn't belong. But anyways, I've been wondering about those cameras mounted on th cars during the races. Are those bought or are they just home-made?
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Re: Mounting camera question (Smash03)
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Probably 70-80% of the cameras I've seen are IO Port mounts (or the like) with a camcorder mounted.
There's a few people running minicams connected to either a normal recorder (camcorder etc.) or a flash memory device. Sometimes these cameras are what you see recording from outside the car.
Shop ioport, etc.
-Chris
Probably 70-80% of the cameras I've seen are IO Port mounts (or the like) with a camcorder mounted.
There's a few people running minicams connected to either a normal recorder (camcorder etc.) or a flash memory device. Sometimes these cameras are what you see recording from outside the car.
Shop ioport, etc.
-Chris
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Re: Mounting camera question (Chris F)
I bought a little camcorder on sale at Circuit City for around $240...it works OK (Just don't use your camera bag for a pillow at the track at night after a few, well...a lot of drinks...half the buttons quit working and there is some minor crackage)...but it still works with the remote. 
I'm kinda of a cheap *** so I made a camera mount out of a 1.75" muffler clamp and a piece of scrap steel I had laying around. The camera mounts with a 1/4-20 bolt.
I'm kinda of a cheap *** so I made a camera mount out of a 1.75" muffler clamp and a piece of scrap steel I had laying around. The camera mounts with a 1/4-20 bolt.
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Re: Mounting camera question (LBHgti)
Another option is SV Technologies mount --> http://www.svtek.com
I saw a couple of reviews on here where people seemed to prefer this one to the ioport unit. I actually ended up with used versions of both of them so I'm going to do some testing in my Miata.
If you have a dedicated race car with a rollbar, I have also heard of people buying a generic tripod head (like $20-40 at a camera store) and mounting it directly to their rollbar.
- Mark
I saw a couple of reviews on here where people seemed to prefer this one to the ioport unit. I actually ended up with used versions of both of them so I'm going to do some testing in my Miata.
If you have a dedicated race car with a rollbar, I have also heard of people buying a generic tripod head (like $20-40 at a camera store) and mounting it directly to their rollbar.
- Mark
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Re: Mounting camera question (Markus)
Thanks for the info fellas, and my bad about the searching thing. I tried to find it but couldn't.
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