Ok, I tried to use my video camera on Rus's 40th b-day ride...
Didn't work out too well.
First problem. I am an idiot. I had accidentally write protected the video. So because my helmet was on, and I had the camera mount to my bike and the way I had it set up, it was a real pain in the arse to verify it was recording properly, so guess what? I didn't verify it, and it was NOT recording properly.
Huge bummer for me. I mean I am sure Rus would have like to have the videos but I don't think he was counting on it as much as I was..
However, the first problem was really irrelevant anyway, because on my way home from Santa Cruz today, I had the camera working, even checked it a few times to make sure it was recording.. fricken AWESOME!!! Had 90 minutes of video, had 30 minutes of video left and my battery had more than half juice left!! I was so jazzed!!
Got the camcorder home, juts hooked it up and viewed it on the computer..
Worthless, angle aint worth a crap, and even if it was, the mount I made is a BIG PIECE OF CRAP it was so jittery, totally useless.
Any of you out there real good at this stuff? I want to try and get off as inexpensive as possible, but I want to be able to make quality videos.
I saw the mount that goes on the tank, don’t really care for that too much for the following reasons:
a) I have a tinted double bubble and it will not work tell well videoing through the double bubble
b) I need my double bubble, and any of you out there that don’t have them. Get them!! I have been on my bike up to 150+ before walk in the park, no sweat. On this trip I had a tank back so I was not able to tuck all the way behind it, OMG!!! At 130 I was having to grip the fricken hand grips so tight just to keep from being blown off the bike!! AND a fricken bug hit my visor and I thought it was coming through and crushing my skull..
I saw on the internet a company that make some kid of cable that plugs into your DV port and supposedly you can mount the camera in the hump and run this cable where ever you want to get video.
Ok, enough of my lame explanations.. Does anyone have a good solution out there that is inexpensive AND allows me to still tuck in behind my precious double bubble AND not have all kinds of jitter….
Didn't work out too well.
First problem. I am an idiot. I had accidentally write protected the video. So because my helmet was on, and I had the camera mount to my bike and the way I had it set up, it was a real pain in the arse to verify it was recording properly, so guess what? I didn't verify it, and it was NOT recording properly.
Huge bummer for me. I mean I am sure Rus would have like to have the videos but I don't think he was counting on it as much as I was..
However, the first problem was really irrelevant anyway, because on my way home from Santa Cruz today, I had the camera working, even checked it a few times to make sure it was recording.. fricken AWESOME!!! Had 90 minutes of video, had 30 minutes of video left and my battery had more than half juice left!! I was so jazzed!!
Got the camcorder home, juts hooked it up and viewed it on the computer..
Worthless, angle aint worth a crap, and even if it was, the mount I made is a BIG PIECE OF CRAP it was so jittery, totally useless.
Any of you out there real good at this stuff? I want to try and get off as inexpensive as possible, but I want to be able to make quality videos.
I saw the mount that goes on the tank, don’t really care for that too much for the following reasons:
a) I have a tinted double bubble and it will not work tell well videoing through the double bubble
b) I need my double bubble, and any of you out there that don’t have them. Get them!! I have been on my bike up to 150+ before walk in the park, no sweat. On this trip I had a tank back so I was not able to tuck all the way behind it, OMG!!! At 130 I was having to grip the fricken hand grips so tight just to keep from being blown off the bike!! AND a fricken bug hit my visor and I thought it was coming through and crushing my skull..
I saw on the internet a company that make some kid of cable that plugs into your DV port and supposedly you can mount the camera in the hump and run this cable where ever you want to get video.
Ok, enough of my lame explanations.. Does anyone have a good solution out there that is inexpensive AND allows me to still tuck in behind my precious double bubble AND not have all kinds of jitter….