Go-pro

[TheArf]

SWMBO bought me a go pro for christmas, and very greatful i am too.
now I need to be able to mount it to the car. I have been looking on the bay of thieves and there are quite a few kits available, what I need to ask is has anyone used the suction cups to fix their camera to the car. I have this vision of going off down the road and the swing the camera flying off in the rearview mirror. My roll bar has been made out of 42mm o.d. tubing and finding the clamp type moutings is proving difficult so I was just wondering if anyone had used the suction cups and how successful they are.

Arfon

[garyt]

no experience of them... yet, but could you not make something like a large P clip, lined so that it doesn't mark your roll bar ?

[TheArf]

i've been thinking of something like that, but when you look at the accessory kits on ebay they are relatively cheap, so don't know what to do, any other thoughts

Arfon

[SeriesLandy]

When I borrowed a friends gopro in the summer I used a tripod mount that looked a lot like a g clamp to attatch it to the roll bar.
Something like a manfrotto super clamp (http://www.jessops.com/online.store/categories/products/manfrotto/035-super-clamp-8251/show.html) would be nice and heavy duty and I wouldn't worry about it coming off. Expensive but a very good make in the photography world.
Superclamps on a ferrari (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdukphotography/21982320361/)

View from the top of the rollbar
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1654/23794156703_f5d9c19660_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/CfBgP6)gopro (https://flic.kr/p/CfBgP6) by Series1Landy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/), on Flickr

[RichardH]

buy the gopro mount kit direct from go pro, you get various mounts in the kit plus five stick on mounts for safety lanyard, the kit is about £35 mine has survived a long time on the landrover off road etc. lots of racing cars i deal with also use these kits, suction mount with the stick on safety line.

[Davidbolam]

I bought a roll bar mount for mine off eBay. I also have some of the go pro mounts stuck on the wings etc. Once they are on they don't come off. Try and use official go pro stuff as the quality is really good.

David

[TheArf]

Thanks for that guys I will get onto their website this evening and see what I can find.
you guys that have been using the go pro already, do you have any footage on you tube or anything else, would love to have a look at your cars on the road and the quality of the product

Arfon

[Davidbolam]

Thanks for that guys I will get onto their website this evening and see what I can find.
you guys that have been using the go pro already, do you have any footage on you tube or anything else, would love to have a look at your cars on the road and the quality of the product

Arfon

Here is the first one I made...

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2KnXyhPxoPKZjVadzAxVFl6SnM/edit?pref=2&pli=1


The shakey bit at the start is due to mounting the camera on the wing. The roll bar mount is much more stable.

Car hasn't been out for about 6 months now so no more to show!

David

[TheArf]

Cheers for that David, it has really good clarity, anybody else have slink I can use

Arfon

[flyerncle]

There is a kit of goodies on Amazon that contains all the bits and pieces for go pro etc and its about £13,excellent value and quality,roll bar mount and others included.

[alga]

Come on Arfon, you have a full CNC shop at your disposal, don't you? I 3d printed my rollbar mount. Ugly, but functional: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:857676

[TheArf]

I do have the workshop available but right now we are at full tilt with students and final year projects it's bloody chaos right now, it's that bad that in order to do any work on the car I'm having to stay late at night, was here til eight pm Monday and Tuesday.

Arfon