{"id":9818,"date":"2013-12-15T15:35:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2013-12-19T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:11:40","slug":"mounting-the-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9818","title":{"rendered":"Mounting the new toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

(this post should probably be over in the geekblog<\/a>?)<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s road trip wasn’t just a jolly on the VFR down to London for the fun of it.<\/p>\n

Oh no.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the trip was to visit Action Cameras, to pick up a Drift Ghost HD.<\/p>\n

And to have lunch with young Daniel.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Drift Ghost HD.<\/p>\n

I have been in two minds about where to stick the camera (settle down at the back).<\/p>\n

The two choices (for forward-facing cameras) are either fairing-mounted or helmet-mounted.<\/p>\n

Fairing-mounted cameras offer a very stable, shake-free platform. And they give a great point-of-view (cornering, banking, swerving).<\/p>\n

But on the negative side of fairing-mounting, you only get a fixed-view aspect. And only being able to see what the camera is pointing at could be a fail.<\/p>\n

Helmet-mounted cameras can show you what the helmet-wearer is looking at. And that’s a big win. And also, it’s the whole point of mobile-mounted cameras.<\/p>\n

On the negative side of helmet-mounted cameras, you can sometimes get a lot of distracting lateral movement.<\/p>\n

Over the last few weeks I’ve spent a lot of time looking at footage filmed with both techniques.<\/p>\n

I find I’m leaning towards helmet-mounted cameras.<\/p>\n

The video work of motorcyclists such as Baron von Grumble<\/a>, The Pickle<\/a>, and Premises 187<\/a> have influenced my mounting views.<\/p>\n

I’ve spent today looking at how I’m going to mount the Drift Ghost HD.<\/p>\n

The camera comes with a range of mounts as standard.<\/p>\n

There are two 3M adhesive-backed, mounts. One is curved and the other is flat.<\/p>\n

The curved mount is a perfect fit for the top of my HJC helmet.<\/p>\n

I’ve test-mounted the Drift Ghost HD to a point just behind where the visor opens to (I prefer the visor to be open, if it’s not pissing down, up to speeds of 70mph).<\/p>\n

\"Mounting\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m using double-backed carpet tape as my test adhesive. Once I’ve applied the 3M adhesive, the mount becomes permanently fixed, and I need to make sure the camera is in the perfect position when I mount it.<\/p>\n

I can adjust the left\/right aspect, by swivelling the camera on its mounting pole, before I tighten it to prevent further movement.<\/p>\n

And the camera lens is rotatable (in the photo above, the camera is actually mounted on its side).<\/p>\n

But I need to get the view right, so that when I’m in position on the bike, the view is forward, not angled downwards (I’ve seen a couple of those – not by any of the three motorcyclists I’ve mentioned though!).<\/p>\n

I’m going to muck about with the camera for a few days.<\/p>\n

I’ll record some test footage, but probably not test footage on the \u00a0bike – the double-backed carpet tape is very sticky, but it won’t stand up to a bike journey.<\/p>\n

It’ll be interesting to see how it looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(this post should probably be over in the geekblog?) Yesterday’s road trip wasn’t just a jolly on the VFR down to London for the fun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}