In Car Video
 

Where can I find reasonable in car video equipment? I only got a few seconds worth of video when I had the car out for the first (only) time.

http://ywnv.vidiac.com/recentvideos/...86016f41c0.htm

Cam

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ask dave ficacci if that is spelled right he has a full run in the stick car good video..

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I used my digital camera, at vegas with a small bracket hose clamped to the rollcage. The Picture was very nice, and recorded the full run. I will see if I can get it to load up.

Lee Zane

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S&W sells a bracket that hose clamps to the roll bars / cage so you can use a regular video camera. I have one in my bracket car and just one of the cheap $200 cameras from sams club. Works great to watch over gauges while testing stuff or trying to figure out a problem.

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Oddly enough, I saw an ad in Sunday's paper for a "Motorsports Camera" at Pep Boy's, of all places. 199.99 with a mounting base. Records up to 2 hours. #GMHW5170. That's all I know about it, not a recommendation, but you might take a look at it.

I did see a LOT of video systems being shown at the PRI show. I seems like that is the hot ticket for road course and roundy-round guys. They look pricy though.

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Try one of these. I heard good things about them for the price. http://www2.oregonscientific.com/sho...cid=14&pid=709
I think they're motion activated.

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Try gopro.com, compact and durable, and easy to operate for about $200. I just got one and can't wait to use it. Also can be had with roll-bar mount and I believe is water resistant to 100-feet.

Evan

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Another thought....

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics...tography/980e/

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Ryan Ondrejko can hook you up with everything you need for an in car camera.
You can reach him at www.Johnsracecraft.com or at http://www.rtomotorsports.com
U want to see some of his work!
Check this out: http://www.nedtopsportsman.com/video.htm

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Evan,is it being waterfroof high on you list of features.The last thing I'm thinking of is water.

Ed

How's the new "Stang coming along?

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I have done several videos - its very easy and very inexpensive to do yourself if you already have a camera.

I have a Kodak Camera that was $200 last year from Costco. But actually, the two videos I have I didn't use that camera with, I used my old POS HP camera that was very out dated.

I have a $20 tripod I got from Walmart. It has three legs (hince the tri part, eh?) that adjust to whatever length you want them to be, so you put it in the backseat of your car and level it by adjusting those legs. Put this tripod close to the roll cage so you can wire tie it down. Make you its very secure so nothing breaks loose on the launch. As long as you do that then the picture won't be blurry or wobbly. Put camera on tripod and have someone hit record when you're ready.

Here is Scott making a pass in the Coronet (bracket car)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?**...ideoID=9687250

Here is him making a pass in the Volare
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?**...ideoID=9684061

I can help anyone do this, can use my camera and tripod, but lets do it during time runs only.

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This will date me for sure. This string reminded me of back in the 70's when we used to put a cassette tape recorder on the floor and try and figure out by sound what was going on.

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Did that cassette tape thing also. It's really bad when you forget to secure it and it's bouncing all around while still recording on a 5-speed Modified eliminator car.

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I had a micro-cassette that I would place on the passenger seat of a mid-13 second 340 'Cuda. I'd bring it to work and play it back. They didn't know it had a "fast Play" playback feature which doubled the speed. That 340 in the burnout box to the finish line sounded like one bad-*** car to them!

On the video recorders, I don't hear any mention of vibration isolation. Isn't that an issue?

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Nevermind, I just reread what you were asking and thought you were asking something else - sorry.

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Lots of good information here. Thank you all.
Bill:
The GMHW5170 you spoke of looks like the same one as Evan bought from GoPro
Evan:
Does the video come in .mpg format? Is the frame rate sufficient to see slow motion video? How much recording time @5 megapixels?

For the price and mounting flexability the GoPro deal seems pretty good.
Cam