Filming laps

[duncan_bayne]

Hi All,

I want to film a lap of Pukekohe (yes I'm an extrovert). If I was planning on filming road riding, I'd just duct-tape my camera to the tank - it's a small, light Canon Powershot & my 150 doesn't go fast enough that I'd be worried about it coming off.

However, I wonder whether that'd be suitable for the track ... I can just see the camera falling off & being collected by another rider.

How do / would you go about it?

Yours,
Duncan

[fatboy1]

Hi.
You get a proper camera mount unit! These can be attached to the bike by either suction cups or fixed via rubber mounts to various parts of the bike.
The biggest issue doing this is vibration as it can really play havoc with the camera and the quliaity of the recording.
Camera mounts are available from lots of places, do a google search or check out
http://www.xtremecameramounts.com/
http://www.pashnit.com/more/cameramount.htm

I have the lockhart phillips one and it works great.

Good luck.

[NighthawkNZ]

http://www.sportbikecam.com/
http://clearwaterbiker.easystorecreator.com/browse_dept_items.asp/categ_id/16/parent_ids/0/Name/Camera_Mounts
http://www.xtremecameramounts.com/
http://www.dogcamsport.co.uk/on-board-bike-camera.htm
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/how_to_make_a_cheap_5_camera_h.html


Google search "motorbike camera mounts"

[Kyle]

Duct tape man, make sure its a good brand tape though, not some crappy chinese brand 'cloth tape' that wont stay stuck. My mate duct taped a camera to his helmet once while we went dirtbiking, worked fine. And i have seen footage from a camera duct taped to a tank, he got it upto 299kph. Id trust duct tape before suction cups any day. However vibration is the big problem, though the more modern cameras have great auto stablizing. Our dirtbike footage was smooth enough, only problem was it didnt point where he looked, only where the helmet pointed, and wind spoiled the sound recording. Id tape it on the tank so you can see the speedo or rev counter at the bottem, there will be less air turbulance there behind the screen. :cool:

[oldguy]

I duc taped my VHSC vid cam to my tank just put a bit of foam on the Tank sat the camera on that and another bit of foam over the top and duc taped the lot to the tank. worked a treat. the only problem was under hard acceleration the pic would go abit waveeee.

[R6_kid]

i made this out of polystyrene packing blocks and duct tape... worked pretty good only thing that sucked was the lenght that my camera could film for.

You can borrow it if you want, camera was a Cannon Powershot A70

[kiwifruit]

1000 words

[Clivoris]

1000 words

That's all class KF. Now I know how to make a full fairing for my bike out of ice cream containers.:banana:

[Leong]

I did mine using the techmount that usually holds the radar detector. Just got an old tripod screw to attach the camera to it.

PS I have 19mm Stem mount techmount for sale if anyones interested!

[insane1]

how much you want for it leong.

[Leong]

Think I said $150 - http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=33788

But all offers considered!

[kiwifruit]

or you can make an ali bracket up with a bolt that goes into the tripod mount on the camera, with the other end bolting (using existing hex head) onto the fuel filler thingie

the camera i was using is cheap cheap, (80 bucks off trade me, only takes 30 frames a second in a low res.. but then who cares if it gets damaged) but you get the idea.. were its aimed etc, its fairly sorted :)
heres some footage of me getting the big learn from Tony Rees :cool:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=618256&postcount=1