Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003 at 16:39
G'day Matt, I used to run a sony video 8 camera hooked up to my race car. I made a base plate for it to sit on and exhaust bolts to clamp it to the vertical roll bar sitting behind my drivers
seat..so the camera was sitting between the 2 front seats, I also added a fisheye lens to give a panoramic view of the racing. Although it worked ok for
home recorded memories of race events, eventually with the high G forces the base of the camera where the tripod thingamegig screws into started to crack as the weight of the camera around corners at 200 + was way too heavy to hold down.
As for Bazza's brilliant idea,
well..im impressed mate, u did
well on this one bazz. i was reading ur suggestion and visualising exactly what it looks like...simple AND effective, I will make that my next project, might even try mounting it around the body for different shots with the fisheye lens. But may i would suggest from expierence that 4WD'ing can in its own way be just as demanding on the camera mount as is circuit racing..so id suggest some sort of surround moulded bracket to hold the camera steady and stop the base screw wanting to rip out .
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