| Author | Message | ||
     Seanp |
I put a camera mount on the crossbar of the handlebars on my Uly, and the vibrations are horrible, (surprise, surprise!) Do y'all think that putting some rubber weatherstripping around the bar would help, or would it create a less stable platform and more vibration? I'd really like to be able to take video while I ride, but what I shot on Friday is unusable. I'm going to try it on the KLX today and see if it's better. | ||
| Vampress |
Get a fearless well-balanced passenger!Lol | ||
| Barker |
helmet mounted cams has far less vibes. | ||
| Seanp |
Yeah, but I have a good camcorder that I want to use, and it's probably a little too heavy to put on my helmet. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
You should mount it to your body. I made a crude camera mount on my helmet that worked pretty good. Others have strapped cameras to their knees or thighs. I was also toying with a parrot-cam for your shoulder. My idea was to mount the camera on a football bad or something. The helmet solution was so much more easy though. | ||
| Babired |
Seanp I mounted a ram camera mount on my ULY its 3.5 inches tall and sits so the camera is touching the tall wind screen. I took some good shots without any vibration effect. My camera is light. I used a point and shoot lumix you can change the setting on the camera for action shots and other settings. The mount is not on the cross bar I put it right next to the left mirror mount. K | ||
| Court |
>>>>You should mount it to your body. Be damned careful mounting a camera to your body and be more careful mounting ANYTHING to your helmet. It's all fun until someone gets an eye poked out. I will likely (I know that carrying a 5# camera ain't all that brilliant as well) mount a camera to the cross bar. Some of the stuff that I saw yesterday and this morning was spectacular and I hate stopping. I sometimes hang a camera around my neck but realize it's s stupid thing to do so I restrict that to slow jaunts through the backroads these days. | ||
| Froggy |
I got my bullet cam mounted to my left turn signal. Worked great till the turn signal came loose. I got a drop of lock tight on it now, its held so far.  | ||
| Babired |
Froggy, I like how you have the bullet cam on the turn signal. What kind of camcorder do you use? I was reserching these but my camcorder does not have the red/yellow plugs its all USB and on a docking station. Court wow around your neck! That could be scary. I hate stopping too. First time I took pictures with the camera mount while riding is pretty distracting I have to practice more to get more comfortable with it. I took the continuing ed class on the digital camera and boy did I learn some good stuff. An SLR might be a future camera for me. The point and shoot that I have know takes good video. K | ||
| Tom_b |
Ther is a really small camera called a flycam2 that r/c fans use on airplanes. Works great on a helmet. About 150.00 from a r/c supply store | ||
| Froggy |
http://www.cbxmanmotorcycles.com/Motocomm-Dsr-100- Motorcycle-Helmet-Bike-Camera-Digital-Recorder.asp x Motocom DSR-100. Quality of the video isn't that great, but it is what i expected from a cheap setup. The recorder is under my map pocket of the tank bag, you can see it above. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Tape based video camera is a lost cause unless it accepts external bullet cam inputs. I use an SD400 still camera and record directly to SD card. Works great. Impervious to vibrations. I even attach it to the "W" bracket bar just above the left side of the primary. Here's what the video looks like (highly compressed). Looks better in real life. http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ulysses+deal s+gap+firebolt&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f# | ||
| Babired |
Froggy, what hook up do you have from the recorder to the bullet camera is it USB? K | ||
| Court |
Sweet. Tell us more about that set-up. You nailed it with the voltage monitor, you have have the video too! Cool | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Here's another example better quality (uncompressed). The shots from my bike are the ones that are rear facing. Also the front facing shots that aren't next to the front wheel are also from my camera. http://gallery.me.com/garyp74#100087 I am using the Canon SD400. | ||
| Seanp |
I think the problem I'm running into is that it's a high definition camera, and so any little vibration looks so much worse when the picture is so good. I have a P&S digital camera that takes video, and I might try that on the handlebar mount, see if it looks any better. The only problem with using a helmet cam is that I tend to look around a lot, and the video just isn't good. I had a helmet cam a while ago, and I ended up mounting it on the handlebars because the video from my helmet was not pleasant to look at. | ||
| Xb12mel |
I've used one of these little 1/4" and 1/3" CCD cameras like this (http://www.cctvimports.com/cameras-mini-enclosed-c ameras-c-3_101/2847-color-super-had-ccd-mini-enclo sed-camera-p-453). They have the RCA connector which allows me to connect to my little RCA Lycra MP4 Recorder (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/497468-REG/R CA_X2400_X2400_Lyra_Personal_Multimedia.html). Ultra lite setup. I mount the camera using Velcro between the head lights and just stick the recorder in my jacket pocket. I get resonance in the video between 5500 and 6000 RPM that's really it. It's a good system. The hard part is finding a new Lycra. (Good luck) | ||
| Froggy |
Babired it both the camera and recorder use a 1/8" headphone jack. |
