Chase cam or similar suggestions...

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Originally Posted by jeffburch

Shoot, that camera looks pretty good.
Tough to see over that hood huh?
Tough to stretch that car's legs on that track.
Too short. Too tight.
Like running a yerf dog in the back yard or vacant lot.

Why the cones?

jb

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Yeah, once I turned off the image stabilization, it worked a lot better. for the price, I am not complaining a bit!

Instructors were the first on course. Cones were setup for a novice slalom drill the session afterwards so we save minutes in setting them up by dodging them in our session. Apex has a great setup for novices to gradually bring them up to speed because most have never been on track so they do braking drills and turning drills first, then instructors drive the course with students riding, then the students get to go. Much safer and the students I have had there have just plain "gotten it" so much quicker than with any other school I have worked at.

Oh, and for the record, that track is twice as slick as it was 2 years ago! So much so you get a bit of glare off the surface from the sunlight and the bumps are getting worse too...not Houston bad but worse.

Yup.
Super-polished.


jb

I have a question for you guys that have camera setups.

I've heard from a few people that the ChaseCam setup is to expensive so I wanted to see what you are using that was cheaper.

What camera are you using?
- What was the cost of this camera?

What are you using to get it from the camera to the PC?
- What was the cost?
- How long does it take to get the video from the camera to the PC?

How are you powering this system?

What features do you wish you had that you don't have now?

I'm just curious to find out the ins and out for new people that are looking for a setup for the car.

Thank you,

old setup, was a JVC miniDV camcorder, have a video editing card on an old PC that converts analog to digital...took forever and the output quality wasn't always that great and was susceptible to vibration.

New setup is panasonic SDR-S10P1 camcorder. Amazon.com was $199.00. Writes mpeg2 vids directly to 4GB flash cards, drag and drop ready to PC with card slot. Powered by onboard battery for an advertised 1hour and 30 minutes with up to 1hour and 51 minutes of recording space on a 4GB card. It's also splash resistant and shock proof to 4ft and has a 10X OPTICAL zoom. It's also a still camera and not much bigger than the old disposable 35mm cameras. I am really liking it so far!

if i had the money i'd get the Chase Cam.
i hate the CF card part of it. i havea few SD cards and would like to use those. other than that, i'd love to have one.

I ended up buying an Aiptek HD digital camcorder. It was less than 200 at BestBuy when I got it. The video it took from this weekend is incredible. I'll try to post some up at full res for people to check out, but I need to learn how to edit the files down.

Jeff

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Originally Posted by Wirtz

I ended up buying an Aiptek HD digital camcorder. It was less than 200 at BestBuy when I got it. The video it took from this weekend is incredible. I'll try to post some up at full res for people to check out, but I need to learn how to edit the files down.

Jeff

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Post em'! I have heard good things about that brand even though they look and sound a little cheap. Very surprising stuff!

can you post a modle number?

alot of stuff on those here;
http://www.corner-carvers.com/forums...ad.php?t=26173
jb

It looks like there is a newer model of it out now. This is what I am seeing at BestBuy.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1177718668809

This is the model I bought back a few months ago.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...29MM70MDDCYQZS

MFW is right in that the build quality of a $200 camcorder does not exactly inspire confidence. I'm hoping one of the things that allow it to last for a while is that it is very lightweight and it is all solid state stuff. I made a small cradle out of aluminum and mounted that onto my IO port mount.

It stores movies in MOV format, so I need to go find a new video edit software.

Jeff