I needed to give my new camera mount a test on the dirt bike to see how it works.
Testing
To do this I needed to test it out taking videos while going for a dirt bike ride up into the hills to see how it works. I got the video camera mounted and took off for the test.
I rode on up this road headed for a neighbor’s place taking video clips as I went.
Vibrations
The first thing I noticed was that the camera seemed to vibrate a lot so I wasn’t sure I could get any good videos but it was a test so I kept at it.
I also noticed the unit wasn’t tight enough and would come loose. I adjusted the mount a couple times and found a better spot for it and tightened up the mount more and things worked better. I slowed some of the vibrations down but the road was bumpy with rocks so I couldn’t stop all of the vibrations.
Practice
I also found it was hard to start and stop the camera while riding but that improved some from practice. Practice seemed to help the situation quite a bit.
Visiting
I rode on up this road to visit a neighbor. The guy I wanted to talk to wasn’t home so I visited with his son and his wife instead.
Improving things
I had a nice visit and then left, stopping just outside their driveway and repositioned the mount and tightened it up good. That improved things a lot.
I think a shorter mount would help a lot and might invest in something soon.
Taking a look see
Once back home I down loaded all the videos I took onto my computer and had a look at things.
Yes, lots of vibration in some of the clips but was at least usable and the sound wasn’t too bad. I’ll work on the editing to see if I can come up with a usable video or not.
Have you thought of using a helmet-cam? It might be more stable then the handlebar mount. AT Ocotillo Wells OHV park they are pretty common.
As you left your gate lots of cars parked along the street. What’s the draw? Just park access and hiking?
Enjoyed riding along with you.
No, but that might be a good idea. My main problem is my camera is not a light one like the go pro ones. It’s a regular video cam. So I’m trying to make it work for what I want to do as it’s a real good camera and does think the go pro doesn’t.
Thanks,
Bob
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A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Have you thought of using a helmet-cam? It might be more stable then the handlebar mount. AT Ocotillo Wells OHV park they are pretty common.
As you left your gate lots of cars parked along the street. What’s the draw? Just park access and hiking?
Enjoyed riding along with you.
No, but that might be a good idea. My main problem is my camera is not a light one like the go pro ones. It’s a regular video cam. So I’m trying to make it work for what I want to do as it’s a real good camera and does think the go pro doesn’t.
Thanks,
Bob