{"id":650,"date":"2008-02-08T22:38:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T05:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=650"},"modified":"2010-03-20T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T05:52:58","slug":"homemade-camera-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2008\/02\/08\/homemade-camera-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Camera Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised in an earlier entry, I finally got around to taking pictures of my camera mount. Inspired by this how-to on making a smaller camera mount here<\/a>, I made a heavier duty one for my Sony TRV22 video camera.<\/p>\n

I used a T section of PVC pipe cut in half and mounted on my crash bar with hose clamps. I threaded a PVC plug into the T-extension, drilled a hole in it, ran a screw through it, and bolted it to a heavy piece of angle iron for the camera to mount on. Then I spray painted it all black \u2014 because black is faster. So here \u2019tis, my roughly $15 motorcycle camera mount. (And, yes, I know the bike is dirty. I ride it, not wash it.)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the side view:
\n\"Side<\/p>\n

An angle from the front:
\n\"3\/4<\/p>\n

\u2026and from the rear:
\n\"3\/4<\/p>\n

The camera from the side. I couldn\u2019t get the handstrap off the camera without cutting it, so I left it on and rigged it up as a safety line. The velcro strap wrapping around the camera vertically is also a safety because redundancy is your friend. Also, redundancy is your friend.
\n\"Cam<\/p>\n

\u2026and a 3\/4 view of the camera mounted. The microphone windsock professionally installed with consumer-grade Scotch tape is the ear covering from a set of United Airlines headphones. I knew hanging onto those things would come in handy some day. Also, that\u2019s a wide-angle lens on the camera. $40 at Best Buy.
\n\"Cam<\/p>\n

One thing I really like about this rig is that I can look down through the fairing and make sure the camera is on and recording (or find out that I left it off or forgot to hit \u201crecord\u201d)
\n\"Fairing<\/p>\n

\u2026and finally, a couple of wide shots so you can see exactly where it sits on the bike.
\n\"Front
\n\"Side<\/p>\n

I have a remote control for the camera, but it\u2019s actually easier not to use it. I put the camera in \u201ccamera\u201d mode when I put it on, then lean over and hit the \u201crecord\u201d button when I\u2019m ready to start taping. It\u2019s a bit of a reach to get to the button so I only do it when I\u2019m stopped, but that\u2019s what editing is for.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some video I shot using the mount. It\u2019s rock-solid:<\/p>\n

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As promised in an earlier entry, I finally got around to taking pictures of my camera mount. Inspired by this how-to on making a smaller camera mount here, I made a heavier duty one for my Sony TRV22 video camera. I used a T section of PVC pipe cut in half and mounted on my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motovideo","category-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}