Buying In Car Camera
 

I am considering purchasing an in car camera. Does anyone recommend a certain kind or the best place to purchase one? I am looking at the Replay XD but would like to hear opinions. I am not sure if the ones that are like a helmet cam or the one that mounts on the roll bar is better.

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Check with Jim Schaechter, they had one mounted in their Chevy 2. There was a post about in car cameras some time back and he said what kind it was and the price. About to get the Firebird back together? J Gower M/S 3058

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I had 2-3 customers who bought one called the "Hero", and I saw some really good video from it.

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From what I've found, the HD Motorsports Hero is the best for the money. You can get all sorts of different ways to mount it, but that suction cup that comes with it aint moving.

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yes the gopro hero is the best...you can buy a motorsports version that comes with a few different mounts specially for cars, such as the roll bar mount.

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i have heard a lot of good things about the replay XD and its very compact. Could be useful for some interesting mounting locations

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While we are at it.. How about one that works on a motorcycle also. You know, one of those vibrating protable air compressor types...

I've used a SONY regular video camera mounted to the handle bars. OK at speed. And also a Cannon digital camera that has video with the same RAM mount. OK, but....
I also have to tape over the microphone port for wind noise..

2003 FLHTI w/116,000+ miles
2000 Road King w/45K

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I have the Go pro and the video is great also the microphone is superior

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GoPro is the way to go!

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The go pro is great for this. Check out you tube and search go pro supercross. There are some great helmet cam videos from this years supercross races.

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I have the GoPro Wide. I did one video last year with it so far. Comes with some mounts and you can buy/make more if you need to. Works really well. Just buy some rechargeable batteries. Here is the video. It's a little bright because the sun was low in the sky at that point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOFo9psqgdM

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For those of you who have it, how big is the GoPro. Small enough to be used on a helmet inside a racecar?

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Kyle Seipel is selling them for 190 bucks.

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We use the RePlay XD in Brogdons PS car and have since last April when we got one of the first ones out. Have loved the results. used them mounted on the roll cage, mounted on the helmet and use a second one to monitor the wheelie bars/rear suspension on every run.

Thing I like best about them is they will run for 90 minutes on a charge. Don't need to keep batteries on hand. Everything downloads onto a micro SD card. I download the videos after every run, takes me about 10 minutes to download & edit a couple of videos.

The Comp guys are loving them!

Unk

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I had bought a cheapo flip camera to put on my brothers dirt car ( did not want to spend a lot of $$ to see it get ran over haha) , they are $99.00 from best buy...I mounted mine on my brothers mini sprint dirt car and was blown away by the quality of the picture and the sound (for being on a rough dirt track)..It has 1/4 mounting thread on the bottom, i used a L bracket that i hose clamped to the cage and then used wide masking tape to make sure it did not fall off haha.I really think it has a picture as good as any but its not as easy to mount as others, its cheap though and very tough.
I will post a link to the video below, and also a link where i mounted it rather quickly ( and way to low ) in the car i was driving at the bracket final in Ennis..

It actually takes till about 2.40 into the video before the race actually starts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRtA6rDV4pI


Drag race video (can not see much and i did not put maskin tape on it so its not real steady)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhZdiF0bW8M


And oh yeah this one is kinda neat with the camera facing backwards..The track is very tacky and he has a pretty good engine in his car which shines on a tacky track ( Can not do any thing to the engines, so yes it has a few stock eliminator tricks LOL!) Turns the engine 16,200 rpm.

The heat race starts about 2.00 into the video below.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqBIx4F1v2I


Jeff Hefler

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http://cgi.ebay.com/rePlay-XD-Helmet...76078278046342

I found this on eBay......
Costco has a GoPro for about $170..

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If you really want something compact take a look at the web site i-kamXtreme.com
The camera is in the SUNGLASSES they are only 160.00 . They have a video to show you. You plug it into your laptop and play it back. Got some myself. I am going to use it on our racecar when we go testing Sunday. Nothing to hold you just put them on they last for 3 hours before having to charge.

JoAnn Connell

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Racing Electronics had a camera on sale at SGMP this past weekend -

1.3 Megapixels
640X480 resolution (VGA)
Built-in 64MB memory, expandable to 8 gig
Built-in lithium battery

They were $50, so I bought one. We'll see how it works in a few weeks!

Lew

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South has a Go Pro and it works fine . You can buy it at Jegs and it is under 200.00 dollars . You can mount it in any position , even upside down

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I looked into the GoPro and almost bought one. What I didn't like is the format in which it saves the files takes some very powerful (and possibly expensive) software to edit.

From what I read, some didn't have luck editing, others it took some time to learn.

I want to be able to edit as if you look at alot of the videos, you see alot of dead time before and after the run. This just wastes viewers time as well as wasting bandwidth.

Need to be able to edit the run down to staging and the run, no need for anything else.

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We have a gopro camera. It is really a good durable piece.

We bought it from Tim Ryherd at the carshop. Tim is a longtime racer and supports our Heartland series. He is currently building a C/SA LS-1 Camaro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xHXjTQWxwM

Talk to Tim.

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I had bought a cheapo flip camera to put on my brothers dirt car ( did not want to spend a lot of $$ to see it get ran over haha) , they are $99.00 from best buy...I mounted mine on my brothers mini sprint dirt car and was blown away by the quality of the picture and the sound (for being on a rough dirt track)..It has 1/4 mounting thread on the bottom, i used a L bracket that i hose clamped to the cage and then used wide masking tape to make sure it did not fall off haha.I really think it has a picture as good as any but its not as easy to mount as others, its cheap though and very tough.
I will post a link to the video below, and also a link where i mounted it rather quickly ( and way to low ) in the car i was driving at the bracket final in Ennis..
Jeff what is the brand of this camera? For my use it would be great

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i just got a go pro hero
can anyone walk me through the setting i need in the hero
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