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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline Find a Cure for Breast Cancer! NOW!! Posts: 3802 WV Gender:	Camera/video equipment 08/13/10 at 07:18:03 For those who take pictures and videos while riding, what kind of mounting options do you have, and what have you tried? I'd love to take some videos.... And what kind of equipment do you like? Software suggestions for editing too?
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Re: Camera/video equipment
Reply #1 - 08/13/10 at 08:02:30

I stuck a block of styrofoam on the top of my headlight with a rubber tie down chord with a cut-out in the styrofoam block to tightly hold the camera oriented straight ahead.

Worked great until I caught a video of somebody trying to eat a dirt embankment .....

..... now I don't do that any more .....

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kevinphan Full Member Offline Posts: 220 Dracut, Massachusetts Gender:	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #2 - 08/13/10 at 08:05:47 You can pick up a Go-Pro and they have with a bunch of different ways to mount onto yourself or your bike.
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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline Find a Cure for Breast Cancer! NOW!! Posts: 3802 WV Gender:	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #3 - 08/13/10 at 08:12:29 styrofoam... hmm, sounds like a logical plan, but I'll take your word for it on the bad luck... Never heard of Go-Pro, kevin, but thanks for the lead. Quick browsing looks promising. I also want to keep bow-hunting in mind. I'd love to film a hunt too, so that looks like some good options!
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prechermike Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Kalashna Kitty, from Skat Posts: 1190 Ponzer, NC Gender:	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #4 - 08/13/10 at 08:20:26 I think someone, maybe Paladin, posted something about PVC and bolts and something to mount a camera to the handlebars. I can't remmebr and too busy/lazy to search right now.
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Reply #5 - 08/13/10 at 08:34:51

GoPro is the camera of choice for amatuer action video...
It comes with sticky mounts for your helmet and is well protected from the elements in a clear plastic shell...
... on the bad side,... it's very tiny, and has a single button cycling menu that is hard to operate or see...
Here's a link...
http://www.goprocamera.com/

For smooth video on a bike,... helmet mount is the best, and a camera with a wide angle lens will show less jiggle...

My point and shoot camera is 25.5mm wide angle,.. the GoPro camera is even wider,...probably about 20 or 22mm...

For editing,... I just use the Windows Moviemaker that is built in to Windows Xp... It's not the greatest, but it's good enough, and it's already on my computer...

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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #6 - 08/13/10 at 08:37:13 Take and old helmet drill hole in top but the bolts from a tri pod in the holes,A guy from our snowmobile club did that 30 years ago.
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Phelonius Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1897	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #7 - 08/13/10 at 09:23:15 I have tried several types of camera mounts at several locations, handlebars, etc. sidecar, etc. What works best is a helmet mount. It totally isolates the camera from vibration and it looks where you look. Phelonius
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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #8 - 08/13/10 at 09:40:04 Here's the one I got. It was cheap and came with a bunch of mounting options. I mounted mine to my engine guard and it worked pretty good. http://helmet-camera.us/8-493964-B001A1U4AE-Oregon_Scientific_ATC_3K_Waterpro... Here's a sample video of me following Kel on the tail of th dragon http://vimeo.com/13852052
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Re: Camera/video equipment
Reply #9 - 08/13/10 at 10:14:57

ALfromN.H. FSO wrote on 08/13/10 at 09:40:04:

Here's the one I got. It was cheap and came with a bunch of mounting options. I mounted mine to my engine guard and it worked pretty good.

http://helmet-camera.us/8-493964-B001A1U4AE-Oregon_Scientific_ATC_3K_Waterpro...

Here's a sample video of me following Kel on the tail of th dragon
http://vimeo.com/13852052

AL - surely that's a typo on the size of that thing? It says: Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 2.8 x 9.8

The ATC-2K is a little cheaper, says the size of it is 2 x 2 x 4.

I like it, and your video looked fine to me! Well, except for Kel being in it... Grin

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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12673 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #10 - 08/13/10 at 10:21:45 It coulda been a lot worse -- he has one with me ugling up the scenery
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Reply #11 - 08/13/10 at 11:09:38

babyhog wrote on 08/13/10 at 10:14:57:

ALfromN.H. FSO wrote on 08/13/10 at 09:40:04:

Here's the one I got. It was cheap and came with a bunch of mounting options. I mounted mine to my engine guard and it worked pretty good.

http://helmet-camera.us/8-493964-B001A1U4AE-Oregon_Scientific_ATC_3K_Waterpro...

Here's a sample video of me following Kel on the tail of th dragon
http://vimeo.com/13852052

AL - surely that's a typo on the size of that thing? It says: Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 2.8 x 9.8

The ATC-2K is a little cheaper, says the size of it is 2 x 2 x 4.

I like it, and your video looked fine to me! Well, except for Kel being in it... Grin

Actually I think mine is the atc-2. the 2x2 sounds about right.

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jef.savage Serious Thumper Offline ridin' n slidin' Posts: 638 Boston, MA Gender:	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #12 - 08/13/10 at 11:56:54 looking at the pics makes me think the big dimensions are referring to the package.
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CeliaMarie Junior Member Offline 2009 Blvd s40! Posts: 79 Long Island, NY Gender:	Re: Camera/video equipment Reply #13 - 08/13/10 at 15:29:30 yay, piglet! Thanks!
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Re: Camera/video equipment
Reply #14 - 08/16/10 at 14:35:35

bill67 wrote on 08/13/10 at 08:37:13:

Take and old helmet drill hole in top but the bolts from a tri pod in the holes,A guy from our snowmobile club did that 30 years ago.

Sorry, but I think my helmet is the absolute last thing I'd be modifying like that. Drilling holes in it could weaken it, and if the unthinkable happens, I want the best protection on my noggin that I can get! Cheesy

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