Mounting a tripod on the car .....

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:39 pm

Looking at buying a normal clamp for the car for next track outing and saw this on the chaps site.

http://www.fastfilms.co.uk/images/Clio%20pro%20roof.JPG

Picked upa tres cheap tripod at duty free and thought about simply clamping it to 3 or either of the below.

Anyone know much about these things ?

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:46 pm

you need a smooth flat surface to mount them onto, when you see camera's mounted on top gear they use a version of these

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:48 pm

Was thinking of mounting above the engine bay with a wide angle lense. Would permit flat of the rear window and the kick of the spoiler.

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:56 pm

You may get away with just a twin suction cup on the back window, but that will depend on how securly you can mount an upright to the suctioncups/camera as I am guessing that will be the weak point. not the suction cupss themselves

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:13 pm

Sanjoy the second photo with the yellow suction device shows what we use as computer room floor tile lifters. They are very strong as they need to lift really heavy floor tiles.

Never used them for anything else though.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:54 am

ExigeKen wrote:Sanjoy the second photo with the yellow suction device shows what we use as computer room floor tile lifters. They are very strong as they need to lift really heavy floor tiles.

Never used them for anything else though.

I know as I have an abundance of them here although some are considerably better than other that have lost their suck.

Will have a look at the suction to tpod connection tonight.

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:48 am

You may not be allowed on track with a home made set up like that. Knockhill, being an approved trackday vendor, have to follow certain regulations to meet the aproval. One of them dictates any camera mount must have a secondary fixing point. i.e. a strap or cable to a fixed point.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:46 pm

I have plenty of straps......

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:50 pm

Sanjoy wrote:I have plenty of straps......

Funny... I heard that before..

Post by **simon** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:06 pm

John Reid wrote:You may not be allowed on track with a home made set up like that. Knockhill, being an approved trackday vendor, have to follow certain regulations to meet the aproval. One of them dictates any camera mount must have a secondary fixing point. i.e. a strap or cable to a fixed point.

I've never been asked about a secondary fixing on the times I've filmed.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:09 pm

Nor I but good practice.

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:21 pm

I would imagine its very much on the same lines as "blue flags will be waved"

Its a regulation but when they chose to enforce it depends on how they feel at the time...

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:15 pm

I have a proper one - its two car friendly suction monts and a bar thats how I did those Evo type shots of Eds (old Exige) Mark Rs and my old red one. Welcome to borrow it

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:59 pm

HaHa... the yellow twin suction tile lifter has just brought back a funny memory and I concur that some are better than others. I used to be the telecoms engineer (contractor) at BSkyB... it was yearly appraisal time so I was offsite at our own companies Bellshill office.

A newer engineer was onsite at Livingston covering me... and was trying his best to impress. Call me paranoid but I only ever used those tile lifters to lift the corners and then lift it out by hand... same for replacing. This guy lifted the whole thing out with the tile lifter... and when he used the same technique to replace it, the said tile fell through the floor cutting a power cable (metal covered tile), which then also cut a coax cable running from an IVR to the cabinet which housed the Switch processor.... the whole BSkyB Livingston Campus was rendered out of action (4 buildings) by a dodgy tile lifter.

The inevitable phone calls with shaky voice was received, and thankfully my yearly appraisal was cut short while I hot tailed it back along the M8... bonus !!

What happened to that new engineer I hear you ask?? Sky hired him as a full time employee..

I think for the weight of a camera it would be plenty enough though...

Andy

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:29 pm

Oh you have to name and shame him, PM pls.