Show me your GoPro mounts....

Because it's hard to type with only one hand! :jaw:

 

Without an explanation I just figured it was Jev's sexiest eye candy. You know we do have a few ladies that ride and with possible exceptions, they might not find this as alluring as the rest of us. (Not that I'm complaining.)

 

Silent jealousy...

 

That kinda new GoPro pro cam is spiffy. It might be just a tad over the top for use on a bike. I just watched the official vid. Another thing that GoPro has that is nifty is a book on how to shoot a vid.

Tons of nifty mounting hardware too. The standard in most medium and standard (35mm or equivalent digital) mount is the Whitworth 1/4-20 thread. So what ya got here is a standardized mounting size making the range of ways to mount not only the GoPro but damn near every other make and model of "regular camera" built since aboot 1924.

This includes all kinds of hardware store stuff like several iterations of T-nuts , a (very large) shitload of mounting farkles from camera stores, Photo supply houses ect. For the dudes with deep pockets and dreams of becoming the next George Lucas or into selfies, there are motorized pan gadgets, steady cam goodies both as counterbalanced units and some that have gyroscopes built in.

This may be of some help for the problems associated with trying to program one of the damn things and looking at jevs stuff at the same time..

 

One of the best GoPro mounts I have is a standard camera mount on an aluminum tripod I bought way back in my college days. It is one of those things that has extendable legs. It will stand a full 3.5 feet when fully extended and it packs down to be about 12" long. I can carry it tucked into a cargo net on the back of the bike. I can set it up on the side of the road and make passes at it. I can extend it and use it as a selfie stick and I can use it with other cameras. It's like BB said, it's kind of universal.

 

All these fittings should be under the Google heading of "photofarkles" . For a shitload of stuff see B&H or Adorama based in NYC. A good start is Bogen/Manfrotto. 1/4-20 is also hardware store stuff including various types of Tnuts.

Conversely, The GoPro stuff can be used with all but the "large format" cams that take a 3/8" thread. Even then there are adapters..

IMO using suction cup mounts on a motorcycle fairing might not be a good idea.

Something sort of new is Nikons new 360 video camera.. There's a couple of vid samples out on it but IMO, they are bogus.

 

I have used the suction cup mounts on a motorcycle fairing but I also used the safety tethers mounted to one of the fairing retaining screws just to be sure. It is pron to vibration.

 

I have mounted GoPros all over my track bike. When its bolted on I don't use a safety wire but for the suction cups I do. I have had the cup come free and have a few friends that this happened to also. No big deal to the GoPro as they have an unbelievably strong Plexiglas box surrounding them but may cause a disaster for someone behind you. Remember to check clearance on the low angle shots and leave room for the suspension compressing and bumps while leaned over.

 

Found this trick mount. we'll see how it works when the freaking weather gets better.

 

Just the suction cup would be a no-no.. Wired on? Sure.. Too many potential conditions and stuff that can accumulate on a fairing to really trust a suction cup 100%

If one of the cam/housings did fall off and take a bounce it could be a bad scene for a following rider.

This is an apropos and yet another unprovoked and non-guilt trip pitch for the Lexan protective shield from Ventura for those really pricy headlight units in most bikes. Other than replacing the Velcro a few times the one on the mach 1 91 is about 12 years old.

Now if one of the cams fell off a bike and the guy behind just ran over it, one of the more creative types could post up a vid on one or more of the bleeding heart sites about the true feelings of roadkill just before those final milliseconds.. This led in by the disclaimer, " No animals were killed, mistreated, called names, or poached, marinated or tossed on the barbeque during this filming."

 

An example of function overcoming form:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qpR3KMVgY...5e_FQ_B6Ug/s1600/motorcycle+helmet+camera.JPG

 

The cases on GoPro's can take a beating. Not sure how much of the cost of the camera system is in the case but they sure are strong. I have seen the results of several high speed get offs and the GoPros were fine. One was a nice long low side that ground the hell out of the case but the camera was fine, nice close up of the track flying by. Another was a spectacular high side, camera came off and tumbled for a very long time recording all the way.

 

Never seen any negative comments on them mself.. I don't have one.. I may take a look for a used one from somebody that wants to or has upgraded.

 

You can pick up one used for cheap. One trick that can be done with the 4k models is to shoot in 4k then with edit software scale it down to 1920x1080 and use image stabilization software for really smooth footage. I think anything you see from GoPro's channel has been through the edit mill with a good editor. Not to say that without the post processing you can't get great footage, but the post work makes it much better.

 

I tossed oot editing once here and got whined at.. raw footage as a forensic tool is great. Raw footage posted as is, with sometimes no reference to WTF is going on, is a waste of time. Way too many excellent sources of how to at least make it interesting and informative.

Bought a Mamiya C220 from a guy yesterday. I have a Mamiya C3. A minor difference in design or procedure can lead to blowing not only an exposure but busting something on an otherwise fine camera that's 30+ years old.

So I go to Utube.. Theres a handful of stuff on the whole line and several that are just fucking embarrassing.

Same deal... Got a new TV a couple of weeks ago. Before I bought it, same deal.. I go to Utube and one guy took 11 minutes to show how to take the damn thing out of the box.. Outcome based education rears it's ugly head again.. When probably another one of those old Chinese guys coined the term "Boob Tube" he wasn't talking aboot tits.

 

No shit a Mamiya C 220. The sako glass on them was exceptionally sharp. It was my first 2 1/4 camera I bought. somewhere around 1981-2. Do you need film? I still have a bunch of 120 positive and negative film in a freezer, been there for about 7 years or so. I converted to digital a long time ago but still shot a Bronica 6x7 until about 7 years ago. Let me know as it is just chilling out.

 

Awe.. so I down loaded the Go Pro studio editor, now to figure it all out. I have a cool little outing video but it's to long to move here and there as it is, it needs shorten anyway. But, how do you guys get permission to use the sound tracks you use?

 

100 pesos for it.. It's the "blue dot" lens. The C3 glass fits all the later 2 1/4. The E6 and B&W I can't use.. This is stuff now for the custom labs and they rape you. C41 yes. I'll PM you. The film is probably still good. I can put it in my freezer with a shit load of 35mm film. I had a Bronica and an RZ67. I had a Blad a long time ago and when Kojack quit making KC in 120, I got pissed and sold it.

The gig is now to use WalMart.. Most of their wet labs are gone but not all. They process C41 in both 120 and 35mm. Negs for the 120 are sleeved and returned. 35 is put on disc.. Takes about 1.5-2 weeks to get done. The trick is to put on the envelope from WM "No Prints" . Including prints jacks the price way up. The processing only price is a couple of bucks.

The guy I bought the camera from was interesting. He has a recording studio in his house and after me drooling over his studio. I look up on the wall and there's a pic of him much younger with Ansel...

Photo farkles I got.. Too many.. I do have an Epson V700 scanner and some great German software for transferring data.

Went almost all digital mself. First digital was a Nikon 950 Coolpix. Still got it.. Not kidding aboot the farkles..

 

Wasn't the RZ basically the same as the Mamiya RB 67? I always wanted the RB but never had one. The only 6x7 I had was the Bronica GS1. Great camera with very nice glass. I think it was called Zezanon glass. The Japanese did very well "borrowing" German glass designs likes Zeiss and Lica and making it cheaper and sometimes better.
Crazy that guy had a photo with Adams, he died sometime in the early 80's. As far as digital goes I first shot digital stills in the mid 80's with a video camera. Apple came out with a capture card and I could hook up a video camera to a CCU unit and them take component video out to the card on the computer and capture a still frame. Really high res 460x720 standard def. lol But we thought it was very cool at the time and could go directly to the latest tech which was called a video projector. Oh my, instant projected stills. It was amazing. Man have we come a long ways in a short time. Now we are talking about mounting tiny 4k cameras on our motorcycles. I mostly shoot stills now on a Canon 5D mark3 that has a wider latitude than film does but I still think there is something magical about silver grain structure of film. Kodachrome 25 way back was my favorite, just slow as hell and the processing was very toxic. And we had to ship it to NY for developing.

 

I'll take a look in the freezer and see what I have in color neg 120. Probably have Kodak films and some Fuji. Probably have various iso's and daylight and tungsten. I'd be happy if you could use it, its just sitting. I gave a friend one of my Nikon F3's last year and a couple of lenses. He wanted to shoot 35mm B&W and I found a bunch of TMAX and some Illford that I sent him, I'll ship you the film in styrofoam with dry ice, should be fine out to you. Your mailbox is full by the way.