Thread: Defender video camera mount

cooL I was wondering wat do do with the ashtray hole..up to now I have just used velcro for LandyCam

Originally Posted by DirtyDawg

cooL I was wondering wat do do with the ashtray hole..up to now I have just used velcro for LandyCam

Moved on from the duct tape then.

Originally Posted by JEEPEYTR

You might want to reconsider. Depending upon the sale price, I bet you would have allot of buyers. How much variation could there be in the Ashtray hole anyway?

Yeah and if you made the slot bit tapered than there would be no problem.
Just slide in untill tight

Originally Posted by Reads90

Yeah and if you made the slot bit tapered than there would be no problem.
Just slide in untill tight

If you look inside the "shoe" inside the dash where the mount slides in you will see the orange plastic insert that hangs down where the dash top screws in. this is what holds the mount so tight, it bends and puts pressure on the mount tongue. the camera is the bottom of the line panasonic nv-gs27, it gives a very good picture and cost me NZ$444.00 delivered, so is not too dear, and yes the bonnet goes up and down because the anti-shake in the camera tries the keep the horizon at the same level.

This is something I've been considering for a long time, glad the topic come up.

Perhaps it's worth putting something in Projects and Tutorials?

No obvious mounting pozzies on the Disco dash. Looked at commercially available suction mounts but at $300+, pretty expensive. Even to hire one, avg price is $80 per day.

Originally Posted by Signal1

No obvious mounting pozzies on the Disco dash. Looked at commercially available suction mounts but at $300+, pretty expensive. Even to hire one, avg price is $80 per day.

I was looking at making mine fit into the demister slots in the dash, but decided against it as we use our heaters over here and I didn't want to cook the camera. You guys might not have this problem

Originally Posted by GrahamH

That works extremely well. I take it the camera has come kind of electronic steady correction since, in the demo, the bonnet floats up and down but the horizon stays quite stable? I take it your test track was around McLeans Island and the stop bank?

Yes the anti-shake is swiched on, i might do one again with it off, and you are close, not the mak, but the next one up, the ashley river. Its about 5 mins from my place.