Camera mountings without rollbar.

[hks_kansei]

I'm going to be doing a Motorkhana with OzMazda in October and I'd like to film it.

the catch is, I cant seem to find anywhere suitable to mount the camera on my NB8A.


on my Mondeo I simply mounted it to a bar coming off the rear headrest, but since the MX5 doesnt have rear seats, or separate headrests, there's a problem.


anyway, my basic requirements are:

not to drill extra holes in the car, use existing holes if possible.
camera must have a good view ahead of the car, preferably steering wheel and handbrake in view as well (but not a necessity)

I already have the tripod head to allow adjustment, I just need to work out a place to mount a bracket to hold it.

[Guran]

If you have a hardtop, you can use a suction cup mount on the rear window. Otherwise you could try the same on the passenger window or if there's enough mobility on the mounting arm, then try the windscreen.

[hks_kansei]

No hardtop.

I will also be running topless (unless it rains)

I havent got a suction mount, and I think my camera is a bit heavy for them unfrotunately.

[Babalouie]

http://www.pana3ccduser.com/article.php ... tion-Mount

These are good. About $145. If you mount it on the passenger side window you get a nice view of the whole windscreen and the instruments/steering wheel too. This is with a normal-sized camera mounted on it, Canon Ixus point n shoot. Works very well, no wobbling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AicTGQgFI3c

[mx52nv]

At the last track day we organised, one of the members turned up with a DIY bracket that was secured onto the passenger side 'Frankenstein bolt' near the boot lid. Usually, that bolt is used to locate the hardtop rear bracket.

Regards,
Les

[Steampunk]

If you wanna go on the cheap, you can buy long velcro strips from a craft shop like Lincraft, Spotlight, Curtain Craft and velcro it to the passenger headrest or wind-breaker.

Aldi currently have some soft, bendy, hold-all thingys that may come in useful.

[StanTheMan]

Used that bracket Babaloui linked to last night. How awesome.

[bruce]

http://www.pana3ccduser.com/article.php?filename=The-ChaseCam-Triple-Suction-Mount

These are good. About $145.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AicTGQgFI3c

$45 ?

[hks_kansei]

the Chasecam one sounds like a good unit, I like the fact it has 3 cups intead of just 1 (like other ones) at least if one cup fails the other two will hopefully hold teh camera from becoming a smashed wreck on the road.


I'll look into the frankenstein bolt method too, I've got the stock bolts so I'll check they have enough thread to hold a bracket securely.

[Guran]

FYI, my ultrapod mounting for the video camera was knocked back by the scrutineer this morning at the NSW Supersprints. He would not even accept the heavy duty suction cup mounting. Grrrrr!

And then to rub salt into the wounds he made me remove the PerformanceBox from my windscreen. I put it in the glovebox instead with an external antenna.

Interestingly I later saw several cars with camera mounted like mine and the box on the windscreen. Go figure!

[bruce]

Get your car scrutineered sans attachments. Attach them later. Anyone asks, just say the scrutineer said it was fine.
I don't like the look of that frankenstein bolt attachment. It would get quite a few Gs and if it failed, goodbye camera.

[hks_kansei]

Get your car scrutineered sans attachments. Attach them later. Anyone asks, just say the scrutineer said it was fine.
I don't like the look of that frankenstein bolt attachment. It would get quite a few Gs and if it failed, goodbye camera.

remember though, it's bolted down.

for it to come loose you would either need to break the frankenstein bolt, or break the camera's tripod mounting hole.

eithr of those would be incredibly difficult to do. (that's assuming of course that the bracket holding the camera is metal and not plastic)