Camera's on Trikes

[The Agent]

I need some help a friend in Cape Town want's to fit 2 cameras on his new trike with a recorder.

Who can help please and what is needed.

[IceAge]

Agent,

Try Vliegvark on this forum. He has done this and if I'm not mistaken (appologies is mistaken) has learnt the hard by by losing a camera. He will thus be able to give you the do's and don'ts

As a matter of interest what camera's is he planning on mounting, ie. will they be remote controlled ??

Fly safe....

[vliegvark]

Mistaken but no worries....... agent I am not so clued up in the video area more in the still camera ,all I can tel you is buy a good mount and then and dslr canon camera to make the remote costs about R100 , easy toggel switch and some cable

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Kurt went back to Chermany after getting his share of SA crime..... His camera setup was imported from Germany, but had to be fitted by Jab SA in George as he was using it in Part 96 ops... Cost Beeeeg bucks....

There is/was a guy on microlighters who was involved in crash scene (car) investigations who had a Vito with klomp camera's on it. He did some initial investigations for me on the RV then fell off the face of the planet. Think Dark Helmut or Big D based at Aviators have done similar on their trikes with a Achros media player recorder.

Also try the guys from flying the fish, but their equip is very expensive as it used for HD productions...

Also try EMUvideo. Damien Beresford. http://www.emuvideo.com/index.php
He sent me a long story on equip used, mounting options do's and don't etc, but I lost it after my laptop was RDP'd.... Most helpful. He has also posted some info on microlighters on the subject...

[Bayliner]

The only thing I know about cameras and trikes is that one should not use a camera that stores data on a hard drive. It simply does not handle the vibrations. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Glenn

[RV4ker (RIP)]

THe pics from Vic Falls taken with a Nikon on SD disk mounted to wing were great....

[Bayliner]

Correction. What I meant to refer to was video cameras.

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Check here...
http://www.emuvideo.com/index.php

But I think these are with mini dat (tape) camera's....

[The Agent]

Thanks a mil so far what I should have said is video camera's and one recorder.
Will follow the links.

[IceAge]

Fully agree with Byaliner. I have one of the Sony video camera's that store onto hard drive. It just does not work on the trike. The camera records until the buffer is full and then attempts to start writing to the hard drive however the security mechanism then takes over to 'save' the drive due to the vibrations and the camera switches off. A whole trip of nothing.......

Attached is a photo of my mount on the bar. I took a piece of aluminium angle iron and attached it to the bar the same way the training bars are attached. My camera mount is of the type that screws onto a motorcar window. I attach the mount onto the angle iron and secure with cable ties. I now have full control of the camera, ie. up, down, left, right and even 360

[Trikenut]

Contact Mark Becker - mark@freetoadventure.com
He mounts video and still cameras to his trike for his various African Adventures!

[Morph]

CLU-less, who has been very quiet lately, has rigged his trike up with miniture cameras, all wired to a central hot box. His son is an electronics wiz and has made him this mixer, that mixes the various camera's, plus sound from the intercom/radio system and feeds it into a video camera. Really cool

[powerfly]

Is there any other sort of mount that one can make to hold a mikndrik to take pix? Any plans from someone?

[Biggles]

I did alot of research into this and even bought the cameras, but never got around to setting the whole thing up.

Firstly for video you will need a video camera with analog-in plugs. This is relatively rare on cam corders now. You can get little cameras from any security shop with brackets, jacks and a little battery pack. All you need is to power up the camera, duck tape or screw the camera to a wing tip and run the wire back to the camcorder witch you can have in the pannier bag or mounted on the bar. The camera takes the place of the camcorders sensor and off you go. Multiple camera view pionts will see you needing a switch box... I would imagine a little one shouldn't be too hard to make. CLUless might be able to help with that.

As for mountings, the shops are frot with little tripods now. The ones that have three flexible legs that you can wrap around things will be perfect, just wire the thing in place so it doesn't come loose.

[Uncle Spud Murphy]

Mistaken but no worries....... agent I am not so clued up in the video area more in the still camera ,all I can tel you is buy a good mount and then and dslr canon camera to make the remote costs about R100 , easy toggel switch and some cable

Thank you vliegvark, I am so enjoying microlighters.co,za

Am wanting to build up a libary of pictures when I finally 1) Sell the house. 2) Move to Africa to be with our SA Family in Phalaborwa-Hot. 3) Buy a house. 4) Learn to fly and 5) Buy a Trike.

Have had visions of camera zooming through the prop shortly before I hit the ground or/and losing camera in flight. Your suggestion has now given me the answer. Ya, good South African. Make a plan

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