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Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:54 am

After seeing rickosuave1987's video I decided to pull the trigger on the GoPro Motorsports camera.
http://www.goprocamera.com/

This thing is very cool, weights about 4.5 oz and will do an hour of vid with a 2G SD Ram card. Comes with an assortment of mounting hardware and is waterproof to 100'. Here's a video from my testing run. I can easily watch the front suspension cycle with the video. You're going to hear the rail start squeaking, discovered one of the piviot bolts for the rear arms decided to use this opportunity to loosen up. I'm going to try it out mounted to the visor and see if a higher perspective will be better than pointing it at my upper shock mount 8)

Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:33 am

sweet camera!! but your terrain is WAY to FLAT!! need to see some video from your other spots...

Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:31 am

GhiaBateman wrote: sweet camera!! but your terrain is WAY to FLAT!! need to see some video from your other spots...

Yeah, I know, where the video ends I had slid out in a turn, when to fire it back up and found out the battery was dead, it was an 8 month old optima battery, turns out the battery was defective. I'll have some better stuff soon.

Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:58 pm

I like your rail, and how much are those camerras i want one.

Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:25 pm

The terrain looks like it is in Casa Grande Az. Is the Gop Pro still under $200.00?
I rented AZ BAJA.com's Go Pro camera it is awesum. ( My Go Pro Videos are there and on the Samba: ( Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:17 am Post subject: Go Pro). I safety wired the camera to the roof rack but the suction cup held on even when subjected to many fully compresed suspension bumps. It was mounted to the center bottom of the windshield. The image stabilization is very solid the terrain appears much smoother than it is. The only draw backs are:

1. It is hard to tell if you are still recording. We had 4 cards and the amount of video varied on all of them. We never got an hours worth on any card. We stopped at the reccomended interval to change the lithium batteries and cards at the same time.

2. A 12 volt adapter would be great. A remote led to indicate a full video card could be incorporated in the same harness.

Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:03 am

perrib wrote: The terrain looks like it is in Casa Grande Az. Is the Gop Pro still under $200.00?
I rented AZ BAJA.com's Go Pro camera it is awesum. ( My Go Pro Videos are there and on the Samba: ( Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:17 am Post subject: Go Pro). I safety wired the camera to the roof rack but the suction cup held on even when subjected to many fully compresed suspension bumps. It was mounted to the center bottom of the windshield. The image stabilization is very solid the terrain appears much smoother than it is. The only draw backs are:

1. It is hard to tell if you are still recording. We had 4 cards and the amount of video varied on all of them. We never got an hours worth on any card. We stopped at the reccomended interval to change the lithium batteries and cards at the same time.

2. A 12 volt adapter would be great. A remote led to indicate a full video card could be incorporated in the same harness.

I had the same problem yesterday. Different length movies. Also the stick on/clip in mount shakes a little going to try the suction cup next. i picked it up with the roll bar mount and it was about $225.00

Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:44 am

You will like the suction cup, I was skeptical but it performed flawless.I did scrape the glass with a razor blade.

Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:39 am

Is that out in New Mexico? Im moving out to Silver City soon and will have to find some new places to rally.

Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:13 pm

roethle wrote: Is that out in New Mexico? Im moving out to Silver City soon and will have to find some new places to rally.

Yeah it's NM but the video doesn't do it justice. There's some really nice scenery and great off-roading here. Silvercity area is pretty cool and the Gila National forest is right there. It's huge (3.3 million acres) and has a good but of roads open to off-road vehicles.

Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:33 pm

. I use just my regular camera JVC. The go Pro the picture looks good The one thing I dont like is the sound on it. Hope it works out for you. great vid

Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:41 pm

I have the GoPro also, I got it off Ebay new for $150 with free shipping, I have spoken to the manufacture and they are working on a update so you can run a 4gb mem card, I run a 8gb card now and I just record for 45min stop it and restart works great... just need to keep a few batterys on you at all times

Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:17 pm

I had one on my buggy last weekend and they do work good.I just dont know how to posst vid it was 2 minutes of video

Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:22 am

Is yours the wide angle one. I'm going to get one too but debating which one to get. I went out on Saturday for a drive it like I hate it session and was linking woops into doubles, etc. while my son was filming on hand held but the video is pretty much unwatchable now.

Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:14 am

riNR wrote: Is yours the wide angle one. I'm going to get one too but debating which one to get. I went out on Saturday for a drive it like I hate it session and was linking woops into doubles, etc. while my son was filming on hand held but the video is pretty much unwatchable now.

I have the wide,

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=62886533

Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:18 pm

riNR wrote: Is yours the wide angle one. I'm going to get one too but debating which one to get. I went out on Saturday for a drive it like I hate it session and was linking woops into doubles, etc. while my son was filming on hand held but the video is pretty much unwatchable now.

riNR, you might want to hold off a but, GoPro is going to release an HD version. Another cam that I recently discovered that's very small and priced good is this one.

http://www.firebox.com/product/2384/Muvi-Micro-Camcorder

It's called the MUVI and runs about $100, the color and low light clarity are noticably better than my GoPro.

Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:16 am

Time to drag this old post up.

I have been looking at a few different types of cams for cruising and club videos. I have an HD JAZZ mounted to a gps holder in my 65 beetle but I wanted to find something that can run outside in all kinds of weather. Has anyone used the gopro or another camera like what I've described.

Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:46 pm

I've got a GoPro HD. The picture is amazing, tons of accessories and mounting options, and it comes with a waterproof sealed case. Just have a good computer to edit that video!

Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:14 am

what software do you need to edit the video?
im having a hard time editing my go pro vids.

Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:34 am

On a Mac I just use iMovie, but if you're on a Windows I think any freeware program would do the trick. No need to go spending money on software that you could be spending on your car. Here's one of mine that I did with iMovie

That's the standard def GoPro, not the HD