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21 Jul 2011, 11:12 (Ref:2929376)
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Pocket Cam brackets
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I am new to racing this year and still Marshal as Incident Officer at Oulton and Anglesey I have a 1967 MGB GT that i race in the MGCC Cockshoot champs and tried fitting my panasonic pocket video camera to the cross bar of roll cage unsuccessfully I used one of thos bendy tripod (Joby) wrapped around cross bar then duct tape to keep in place but it shakes quite a lot. The brackets for cages are £30+ and just wondering has anyone else found another way of mounting the camera on diagnol without forking out for brackets? Russ |
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21 Jul 2011, 12:02 (Ref:2929391)
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we bought a cage bracket from dogcam for £30 and it works really well with a small video recorder on it. very stable.
im guessing if you had some engineering nouse you could make one from a bit of plate bent to the radius of the tubing and attach that to a ball and socket tripod head |
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21 Jul 2011, 13:00 (Ref:2929421)
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More to the point, anything not secured properly becomes a missile in an accident and so you should be looking for a semi-permanent solution.
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21 Jul 2011, 13:18 (Ref:2929433)
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Cameras have to be attached before scrutineering don't they? So any mounts need to be good enough to satisfy the scrutes (they need to at least look like they will hold up in the event of an accident - as Woolley says you want to minimise the chances of it flying around the inside of the car if you do have an off). I don't think duct tape will suffice somehow
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21 Jul 2011, 14:25 (Ref:2929458)
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21 Jul 2011, 19:20 (Ref:2929534)
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I made a very good one with a couple of exhaust U bolt clamps and a piece of 1/8 plate. Just use a 5/16 whitworth or UNC bolt to screw in the camera, I actually used an old tripod head that made it fully adjustable.
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22 Jul 2011, 21:22 (Ref:2929942)
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Here's my camera rig:
 Uploaded with ImageShack.us Two open sided boxes, folded from a piece of alloy extrusion 'angle iron'. Pop-riveted. Base clamped to the roll cage by two U-bolts. Camera fixed into its box by the usual fixing screw. Camera box given windows and cutouts for controls and the video screen. Central unit allows limited 'universal joint' movement, which may then be clamped tight by tightening the locknut which compresses a hard rubber ball inside the square section. The cross bolt then secures that. A seperate camera box can be made for different camaras if you have more than one, and changed by loosening the central unit. JOhn |
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