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[mini.30]

This is a video I made at the weekend using a homemade headrest camera mounting. Filming is done on the way back from Demon-Tweeks in Wrexham toward Stoke-on-Trent. Hope you all like it!

Mark

[Steely]

Personally I would of left the music out but still a nice video and a good sounding mini .

[mini.30]

To be honest I was unsure about the music myself. I will remove the music from the in-car sections and see if its any better

Thanks

[mini.30]

The new video with no music in the in-car sections



thanks

[Mini 360]

So how did you mount it to the headrest then? :)

[mini.30]

Well, it wasn't pretty, but it was only a prototype! Two bits of wood, one about a foot long and one a bit shorter. The longer piece infront of the headrest posts and the shorter one behind them. 4 long screw fastened them together and clamped them to the headrest posts. Then I drilled vertically through the end of the longer piece and found a bolt with the correct thread to fit the camera. Just adjusted the backrest of the seat to adjust the angle of the camera.

Going to be making 'version 2' soon using metal and small u-bolts. Should look much better and last for more than one use!

[RayBoogs]

Could just use a gorilla tri-pod?

http://www.google.co...iw=1280&bih=685

then just grip it to the headrest posts.

Cool video as well, I miss driving a mini, sounds nice as well

EDIT: AHHHH mega link, haha sorry.

Edited by RayBoogs, 20 January 2012 - 04:37 PM.

[yeti21586]

much better with out the music, you can hear your mini purrrrrrrrrr!

[muddd001]

Awesome, Much better without the music.

Another 2 years and I will be behind the wheel!

[surfblue63]

Good steady video you've shot. What sort of camera are you using.

I use a tripod in the footwell, which I tie to the window winder and the heater slide to stop it falling over. This was shot with an Hitachi HD camcorder.

[mini.30]

Just shot with my digital camera on video mode, its a fugifilm finepix j250. Nothing special but an excellent budget camera

[surfblue63]

The Fujifilm Finepix are good. I used to use an S5800 for stills and video. I replaced it with an S200 EXR for stills and still used the S5800 for video until I got the Hitachi last year.

Edited by surfblue63, 21 January 2012 - 03:01 AM.