mx5 in car cameras with roll cages

evil_weevil · Postby **evil_weevil** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:38 pm

Hey team, just wondering what you guys use for camera mounts with your roll cage in the mx5, any links either? Cheers chris

Postby **orx626** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:52 pm

Here's mine....p-clipped to the rollbar. Works a treat.

Cheers,
Danny

Cal · Postby **Cal** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:19 pm

All Manfrotto

035 Superclamp

804RC2 Tripod Head

037 Camera Stud (joins the above 2 together)

Carrying this

evil_weevil · Postby **evil_weevil** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:57 pm

Cheers guys!!

Next supersprint isnt till May so Ive got plenty of time to do some shopping, cheers!

Guran · Postby **Guran** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:14 pm

Yesterday at Marulan, I used my old faithful Ultrapod with my Canon digital video camera attached. I just strapped it to the rollbar cross-brace with the velcro strap and wound on a bit of electrical tape to stop it rotating too much. The results were very impressive!

You can buy an Ultrapod on ebay for $13 plus $10 postage.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Ultrapod-I-Compa ... .m20.l1116

fattima · Postby **fattima** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:26 pm

If it an event run under CAMS regs worth reading this
http://www.camsmanual.com.au/techdocs.asp

Cal · Postby **Cal** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:59 pm

Pfft that document is a joke......."strongly recommended". No video camera made in the last 10 years would weigh over 1kg anyhow. Mine is about 380g.

fattima · Postby **fattima** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:03 pm

Cal wrote:Pfft that document is a joke......."strongly recommended". No video camera made in the last 10 years would weigh over 1kg anyhow. Mine is about 380g.

Maybe you missed this bit in your haste to dismiss it

"NOTE FOR COMPETITORS: It is foreshadowed that from 1 January 2009, the maximum weight of any camera, lens or recording unit mounted to
other than the floor shall be 100g."

Fatty · Postby **Fatty** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:28 pm

despite what the cams rules say, i've seen cameras stuck to the exterior of cars with no more than a suction cup type device. seems hopelessly inadequate to me, but none of the officials / scrutineers have ever seemed t have a problem with it

Boags · Postby **Boags** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:56 pm

Fatty wrote:despite what the cams rules say, i've seen cameras stuck to the exterior of cars with no more than a suction cup type device. seems hopelessly inadequate to me, but none of the officials / scrutineers have ever seemed t have a problem with it

My camera has a suction cup mount. It was tested by the manufacturer on a GT Cup Porsche rear wing. At 300kph the rear wing of the porsche tore off; the camera mount still stuck to it...

I've done 170kph at Lakeside with it suction cupped to the bonnet without problem. :mrgreen:

fattima · Postby **fattima** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:18 am

A couple of rounds back at PI I saw officials removing cameras and things like performance box meters from peoples cars, I presume because they did not like how they were mounted. I think it depends on who you get looking at the cars.

@ndrew · Postby **@ndrew** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:37 am

orx626 wrote:Here's mine....p-clipped to the rollbar. Works a treat.

Cheers,
Danny

Which setup you using?

Cal · Postby **Cal** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:06 am

fattima wrote:
Cal wrote:Pfft that document is a joke......."strongly recommended". No video camera made in the last 10 years would weigh over 1kg anyhow. Mine is about 380g.

Maybe you missed this bit in your haste to dismiss it

"NOTE FOR COMPETITORS: It is foreshadowed that from 1 January 2009, the maximum weight of any camera, lens or recording unit mounted to
other than the floor shall be 100g."

As president of Production Sports Cars Qld, the document has been a talking point within the club for over 12 months. We are currently discussing it's content with CAMS. It is not with haste I dismiss it.