I recently recieved a rather nice camera for my birthday (a few months
ago but its taken me a while to work up to using all the features) and
on Xmas eve I went riding in Stratford-Upon-Avon with Dave, Alex &
Rupert... And decided to use the last untested feature on my camera...
the external bullet camera!
A copious amount of duck/gaffa/tank tape later, and its all secured,
the cam on the frame pointing down at an acute angle to the frame, and
the camera in its shock case is taped under the saddle... And here's a
snippet of the footage we got!
'Rolling hop to crank grab' (http://tinyurl.com/cs7nn). (DIVX encoded,
I need to download in Firefox to watch it, but its ok in IE)
You can see the block i'm hopping at the start of the vid when the uni
is angled back for mounting, its in the middle of the staircase in the
distance. My left foot (I hop Left Forward) is visible as I hop (and on
each rev) and my knee (bulked up by the 661 pad) appears on the right
during normal riding).
It seems the shock of the crankgrab is too much for the external camera
and its causing it to turn off, cutting out the video as I land it...
I'm going to experiment with a foam shock-absorber, to try and damp it
down, and if I finally get it working I'll hopefully get some on-board
footage of grinds, hops, skinnys and so on, for the first time.
I'll be filming Muni with it this coming week, so I need to see how it
reacts to that, and I'll be back in the new year with more camera
angles (I've got some ideas at the moment, will test them this week).
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year All.
Loose.
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Officially a & ~ expert.
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Baz: "I think he's upstairs, balancing The Bishop"
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