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Old 08-17-2011, 05:18 PM
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Default i love this pov camera!

what fun this little pov camera from drift has been...

here are some screen shots from different mounting locations and views that have been interesting.











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Old 08-18-2011, 09:11 AM
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Default Me too

After reading both Vic Syracuse (Alaska and Camera Mounts) and your threads I decided to give Drift Stealth HD170 a try. Your idea of mounting the camera on wing tip makes a lot of sense to me since it is easy and allows the use of remote. It took two days to get the camera from Amazon.com and five minutes to get it mounted before the fly test. Since I only had a 1 gbyte SD crad free the video ended before I turned base. Here is the video (set resolution to 1080 when play back) and a photo of my wing tip mount. The blue tape was used to find the hole spacing.



[Should have reversed the mount to ensure that the camera does not slip out.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av8TQ1NCX70
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Old 08-18-2011, 10:38 AM
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Default Awesome!

One of those cameras is definately on my wish list.
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Old 08-18-2011, 10:43 AM
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Ted (and maybe Stephen too),

I see you're using a "slide-in" mount for your camera. I have the same thing for my Oregon Scientific ATC2K camera, and have mounted it on the tail. I won't link to any videos because the quality is, well, without beating around the bush, it's cr*p. But the mount works well. I was also concerned about the camera slipping out, so I put a tether through the wrist-strap hole on the camera, and ran the other end underneath the bracket that I screwed to the tail.

You could even drill another hole in the bracket that you screwed down, and just loop the strap through that. If the camera *did* come loose it would certainly flop around a heck of a lot before you got back on the ground, but you might not lose it.
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Old 08-18-2011, 11:00 AM
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Default strapless...

I would much rather lose a camera then have it bashing skins on a tether line in flight...

The mount is VERY secure and the snap in attachment threaded into the camera tripod mount is also toothed to lock the clocking of the camera with respect to the base... as long as the camera slides in from the direction of flight it is not going anywhere unexpededly.
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Old 08-18-2011, 11:07 AM
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I'm in. Hope to get mine today.

Why do I feel like I was looking through "jello" in a couple of the videos? Kinda wobbly looking movement.
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Old 08-18-2011, 11:17 AM
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Default Jelly effect...

The wobble, jelly, or jello effect that you are seeing is an artifact of the camera sensor using a rolling shutter; it is most pronounced when the prop is in the frame and with bright sun... not much can reliably be done to eliminate it but there are lots of threads on google about it.
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Old 09-28-2011, 10:31 PM
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The new iMovie (11) can reduce that wobble a bit. It will do nothing to fix the prop blur though.
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Old 09-29-2011, 09:27 PM
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That's a beautiful field you departed from. Where is that?


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Old 10-03-2011, 05:26 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ygJJXF9NVw

Hard to beat a Mac and iMovie
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