clarkey Posted February 17, 2001 Share Posted February 17, 2001 I'll go along with that - I bought about the cheapest DV camcorder at the time, a Panasonic NV-DS11, and it has been excellent. The quality is easily good enough for me. I've only got a laptop, so firewire is more of a problem - I still can't find a reasonably priced PCMCIA card / firewire adapter, so if anyone knows of one, I'd be grateful. The still shots off the camcorder are excellent though. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkey Posted February 17, 2001 Share Posted February 17, 2001 And I'm not a novice anymore, and I haven't even got the car yet.......roll on 11.30 today!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted February 18, 2001 Share Posted February 18, 2001 Thanks Arnie, couldn´t find the clamps anywhere over here in boring Germany so I ordered them online. Good hint, I was looking quite a long time for the clamps. I use a Sony TRV 520 cam, it´s got a brilliant SteadySHot whichs reduces vibrations to an absoulte minimum. Excellent picture quality, too. Have a closer look at them now, they´re bringing a new series in the next weeks/month, so the "old" ones are getting very cheap. Just bought mine for 590 instead of 800pounds. I also worried about wind-noise which you´ll have dominating your tape if recording with the standard mic positioned in the wind-flow. I bought an external mic, lenghtened the cable at about 2 metres so I can position it in the foot-well. Gives good resonance of induction/gearbox/exhaust-noise and shows absolutely no wind-noise. If possible, fit another wind-shield around the external-mic, too. Marius P.S.: I also ordered the DemonTweeks-mounting-system, I´ll let you know if it´s worth the money.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Beaumont Posted February 18, 2001 Share Posted February 18, 2001 I've only got a laptop, so firewire is more of a problem - I still can't find a reasonably priced PCMCIA card / firewire adapter, so if anyone knows of one, I'd be grateful. Clarkey, there's quite a few such devices around. The Orange Micro one looks the nicest if you have Cardbus, but I have no personal experience of them. I'm a reseller, and have looked into this before, but there seems to be few UK sources for such beasties. It would probably work out as cheap to import from the US anyway. Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted February 19, 2001 Share Posted February 19, 2001 Arnie, Did you just bolt the top plate to the clamp ? It only seems possible that 1 of the sets of holes line up on both top and bottom ? Does it twist at all ? N. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted February 19, 2001 Share Posted February 19, 2001 Noger, Yes I bolted it with two countersunk bolts. I think I had to drill and tap the second hole - it was about 5 yrs ago so hard to remember..... Arnie Webb The Fat Bloke blush.gif in a Slow Old Vauxhall wink.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkey Posted February 19, 2001 Share Posted February 19, 2001 Luke, cheers for the tip, that looks about the right price for me! I might give it a go. I've finished the bracket for my camcorder now, total price was about £15 including a microphone. I got a U bolt from B&Q (£1.50) that was a bit bigger than the rollbar, and drilled a couple of holes into a large right angle bracket (from the decking section in B&Q), cost about £2. I bought a metal universal tripod adapter from Jessops (£7) and rivetted this to the top of the bracket. I wrapped a lump of rubber (part of an Escort cam belt, I think) around the rollbar and mounted it on one of the rear bars on the FIA rollbar. Very secure, held firm by a bit of insulation tape and long cable ties. The microphone (Maplins, £4) is taped to the inside of the car, everywhere I put it seems to give loads of transmission noise though. Very easy to do, about 30 minutes work and £15 to get it right, and it only take 5 minutes to fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted February 19, 2001 Share Posted February 19, 2001 The "ALL MANFROTTO" approach (without drilling things) presents a few possibilities. Firstly you can get a ball&socket head (352RC/GBP23.99) which attatches to the superclamp via a brass spigot (037/GBP4.90). The head is very rugged, and would allow you to do all sorts of interesting angles. However the brass spigot is the weakest link (goodbye) since it is under tension, and shears at the thread rather too easily. There is a steel (?)adaptor (208/GBP11.50) that looks stronger, but there don't seem to be any around. Second possibility is a double ball head (155RC - GBP24?) that fits direct into the superclamp, not sure of the stiffness of the ball joints though, they do not looks as firm as the 354, and I can't get hold of one of those either ! So guess it's time to start drilling ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFA Posted February 19, 2001 Share Posted February 19, 2001 Black and decker time! Edited by - fast arnie on 19 Feb 2001 19:54:26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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