Defender video camera mount

**abaddonxi** · 11th May 2007, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by mrapocalypse

AKA Magic arm and prettyy good, bit prone to drooping in the rough stuff....

Best to keep the arm as short as possible!

Depends on how you rig it and how old the magic arm is. If it's the one that's been sitting in the back of the lighting truck for a decade and used to hold 20Ks steady on the top of a cherry picker in a stiff wind then it won't hold up.

If it's nice and new and shiny like mine, and you don't expect to rig it at full extension of the arm then it should be okay.

The way I'd do it is one clamp off to the passenger side grab handle, get the camera up on the dash, then hold it all down with an occy strap. Think a ratchet might be overkill.

Cheers
Simon

**twitchy** · 12th May 2007, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by Signal1

Are you the cameraman? Impressive riding, that is one hell-of-a mono the first time you hit the black top

Yeah thats my other toy, The DR-Z400, The actual DVD of that ride is clear, but goo tube conversion wasn't so good, Using the bullet cam you can mount just about anywhere you like.

Jimbo, thats a nice mount you made & good to see others like getting footage as well!!!!!!!!!!

**jimbo110** · 12th May 2007, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by twitchy

Jimbo, thats a nice mount you made & good to see others like getting footage as well!!!!!!!!!!

Its a whole lot different from what I used in the early '90s when I started doing this stuff.

This was mark 11 bullbar cam, differing from mark 1 by having the super-duper trendy auto focus!

Oh how things have changed!

And yes it did connect to a porta-pac VCR carried in the truck. Lucky there is lots of room in a landrover!

**drivesafe** · 12th May 2007, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by Signal1

No obvious mounting pozzies on the Disco dash.

Hi Signal1, I did a fair bit of videoing in my D1 and D2 and it was from a small mount that clipped into two of the vent slots at the front of the dash near the windscreen and tucked up into the grove in the dash just above the radio. I packed a large beach towel under the mount to keep it firmly in place.

I could fix it in place in about 30 seconds.

This is a video I took from the D1 6 years ago, along the Lions Road, from the tick gates down into Queensland.

As I used the same camera on a tripod, I regularly forgot to turn the stabiliser function on when using the camera in the Discos and this clip does not have it on but is still fairly stable.

Cheers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG4x2Mx2KNk

**Signal1** · 13th May 2007, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Hi Signal1, I did a fair bit of videoing in my D1 and D2 and it was from a small mount that clipped into two of the vent slots at the front of the dash near the windscreen and tucked up into the grove in the dash just above the radio. I packed a large beach towel under the mount to keep it firmly in place.

I could fix it in place in about 30 seconds.

This is a video I took from the D1 6 years ago, along the Lions Road, from the tick gates down into Queensland.

As I used the same camera on a tripod, I regularly forgot to turn the stabiliser function on when using the camera in the Discos and this clip does not have it on but is still fairly stable.

Cheers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG4x2Mx2KNk

Hi Drivesafe,

That works really well. Did you make up the mount or buy it? Don't happen to have a picture of it do you?

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