That's a great photo. It makes a great desktop image.

 

Gee....Thanks.
Jim

 

Yet another fantastic photo Jim. Love the curve in the road being sharp, yet everything else is at warp speed. I won't ask how many total photos you took. Gotta love digicams & big CF cards! Mount attached to the windshield again like you described previously?

 

Thanks! Yep, stuck on the windshield. Shot about 100 shots on this stretch. Recognize it?........Empire Grade.
Jim

 

Cool photo Kurt. "Speednut presents Swifty Da Drift King remix" below.

 

You forgot my eyes bugging out.

 

Oh, you wanted the comic version! No worries, I got your back.

 

 

A few more from yestarday. It SNOWED/ICED here in Texas. It is amazing...when someone says the word "ice" in Texas, everyone runs into their homes, and stays there...for DAYS. I was driving around today, and the streets are empty...all the restaurants are completely closed. I live in a ghost town! And to make matters worse...the electricity just went out for a few hours. Luckily, it just came back on...



Well, here are my shots from today. I got so bored, I figured I would play around with the camera...

 

Nice shots. I forget, do you have the CruiseCam mount, or a home-brew solution?

I'm still waiting for my CruiseCam to arrive (late Christmas present from Dad, if he hasn't forgotten *ahem*), but I did get my FilmTools suction cup mount on Monday. For short-term use, I can stick it to the sunroof:



I really need to get a wider lens...

 

Taken this weekend in Boston while riding shotgun.
My camera was on a monopod, ƒ/8 @ 1/13, ISO 200. I obviously had Jim's efforts in mind. :-)

 

I have the CruiseCam headrest mount. It works great!


I also am in desperate need of a wide angle lens! Time to start sacing...

 

Real nice photos everyone. I got the double CruiseCam for Christmas and I'm looking forward to doing video and time-lapse photography with it.

Have you seen this mount?

http://www.stickypod.com/

 

After mounting a video camera to the outside of a dragster, we tested the Sticky Pod up to 175MPH with virtually no troubles.

That statement's kind of missing the definitive air I'd rather see before attaching a thousand dollars worth of glass and plastic to it!

 

haha agreed. virtually was not the best choice of words.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blalor/364982523/
Playing again with the suction cup mount. Man, I sure wish it was warmer than 19º today...

 

I really like the first one.


However, in the second one, you can see the shadow of the mount .

 

A few more:

 

Yeah, that's the downside to that shot. I was more excited with how the tire tread showed up, and the spray of snow from under it.

Jim, how're you mounting the camera for these that show the wipers? I tried that yesterday with my suction cup mount, but I wasn't able to point the camera back at the mount. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough (I'm not a huge fan of that head).

 

I'm sticking it right at the top of the windshield, just to the right of the rearview mirror. Then I just position the head so the camera "hangs" upside down, with the lens as close to the windshield as possible. I'm using a 10-20 mm lens, so I just fiddle around with the zoom to get as much of the car in the frame I want.
Jim

 

You guys are getting some really good looks
jim—if you keep mining that vein, you will surely strike pure gold.

 

Thanks! Have a couple of ideas for next weekend!
Jim

 

The Amateur Photographers' thread on MINI2 brought another selection of mounts to my attention: Suction and Vacuum Mounts

I think I like the head better on that first one, especially with the extension for the mounting plate.

I could see getting another suction cup and tying two together to avoid having a single point of failure. I wonder if that might make it a little more rigid, too. The photos I took yesterday had some camera shake, but I was driving on a frozen dirt parking lot, albeit at very low speeds; would two cups help reduce that?

 

I did a run with the Ocean State club yesterday and took a bunch of pictures with the FilmTools mount. I'm not that crazy about how the individual images came out (see /) but I was able to put together a short timelapse video: http://bravo5.org/blog/2007/01/28/a-quicktime-timelapse/