Video camera mount

[FUNFER2]

Hey Sal- I don't know if you have the same problem I had but.....?
I borrowed a camcorder from where my wife is employed. I set the camera on my work bench, pointed it towards my cobra in the garage, turned it on, sat in the car, fired it up (loved the echo & cold engine sound) warmed it up, handed my wife the camera sitting in the passenger seat, drove a few blocks to the highway, did a cool burn out, launched the car & it sounded fantastic. When we got home, all that was tapped was in the garage and when backing into the street, NOTHING ELSE ! I tried three times with the same results. I was furious. When reading the "problems" section in the manual, this camcorder has two selections for battery life. You can have it turn OFF if not in use for 5 min. to save the battery charge or on all the time. It was in the ON the selection. Once I turned it OFF, it was just fine but, by that time, my wife had to return it. Bummer !
Oh well, now I know what happened. We'll get it again in May, were taking a cruise to Alaska. I'll attempt to tape the cobra again at that time.
Check your camcorder and see if you have the same problem ?

Kev

[Don]

Kev, not sure, but if handheld while in the auto is in motion , the stabilization software/hardware feature might have prevented a recording. Can the feature manually be disabled ?

[Power Surge]

Originally Posted by FUNFER2

Hey Sal- I don't know if you have the same problem I had but.....?
I borrowed a camcorder from where my wife is employed. I set the camera on my work bench, pointed it towards my cobra in the garage, turned it on, sat in the car, fired it up (loved the echo & cold engine sound) warmed it up, handed my wife the camera sitting in the passenger seat, drove a few blocks to the highway, did a cool burn out, launched the car & it sounded fantastic. When we got home, all that was tapped was in the garage and when backing into the street, NOTHING ELSE ! I tried three times with the same results. I was furious. When reading the "problems" section in the manual, this camcorder has two selections for battery life. You can have it turn OFF if not in use for 5 min. to save the battery charge or on all the time. It was in the ON the selection. Once I turned it OFF, it was just fine but, by that time, my wife had to return it. Bummer !
Oh well, now I know what happened. We'll get it again in May, were taking a cruise to Alaska. I'll attempt to tape the cobra again at that time.
Check your camcorder and see if you have the same problem ?

Kev

Thanks for the heads up Kev. My short vid issue is just the size of my card. The biggest one I have is just 128mb. I imagine I could take a longer video with a bigger card.

[FUNFER2]

Don- in my case, I don't think so. I thought about that myself so, I shook the camcorder while recording and it ran fine. Gave me a dizzy headache watching it thought ! lol

Sal- the size of card makes a difference. Like with my camera, the card was small and would only take about 15 photo's. I bought a new card, (the only one they had for my year of camera) and now it can handle 1,000 photo's !
Think that will be enough for our cruise to Alaska ?

[wtm442]

Sal

I do not have a Video Recorder. But my digital "camera" takes QuickTime movies. There are 3 different settings when recording a movie. At the lowest pixel setting, the movie is the grainiest of all, but has the max length. Conversely, at the highest pixel setting, it takes the best quality movie, but it has the shortest length of recording time. Is there different settings in your Video Recorder?

What kind (type) of memory card do you use? If its a compact flash card, I have some left over that I used with my OLD camera. My new camera uses a smaller sized memory card, so the old ones are useless to me, and I could mail some to you!

[rattlesnakepete]

My solution is not nearly as pretty as most but I have found it to be very effective and dirt cheap. I use PVC pipe mounted to my roll bar. I was able to play wih all kinds of desigs because it is so easy to work with. I have never had any problems with vibration either. I took the T fitting and cut it in half and then mounted it to the roll bar with a piece of leather between the inside of the T and outside of the roll bar. I am sure rubber would work as well. I have two different mounts, one comes straight down from the roll bar as shown if you look close. The other comes down and forward for more of a drivers view. Just depends I want view I prefer for the day. Total cost was a few bucks.

I concur that making a cobra video without a remote microphone is a waste of time.

[rattlesnakepete]

Sorry I am having technical difficulties with the photograph.