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  • #184097
    Nick_G
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      @nick_g

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      Can anyone suggest a sipmplish but effective design for an anti vibration mount for a video camera.

      Bought a new compact today for use in the workshop. This is because I really don't wish to turn my expensive SLR all grubby and like a bar of soap with oil etc on it. lol Besides it does not shoot video.! I have been using an iphone in there and wanted something a bit better.

      Anyway. I could not resist attaching said new camera to my motorbike and shooting some video. The result is AWFUL.!!! Just so, so bad due to vibration.

      This is how bad. **LINK**

      Anyone any ideas without it turning into a NASA scale engineering project.

      I should add the bike is not 'vibey' and is quite smooth to ride. But this makes it look like a bone rattler from hell. lol

      Nick

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      #23779
      Nick_G
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        @nick_g
        #184100
        Michael Gilligan
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          @michaelgilligan61133

          That's horrible, Nick

          … We got better on an Armoured Personnel Carrier, with the camera on a rigid mount !

          Can you please post a photo of how it's mounted.

          MichaelG.

          #184101
          MalcB
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            @malcb52554

            Have a look at http://www.techmoan.com review on the Pedco camera clamp. I use one myself and am quite pleased with it so far.

            #184102
            Nick_G
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              @nick_g
              Posted by Malc Broadbent on 21/03/2015 22:11:08:

              Have a look at http://www.techmoan.com review on the Pedco camera clamp. I use one myself and am quite pleased with it so far.

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              That's the exact same one I used today. frown

              Nick

              #184104
              daveb
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                @daveb17630

                Nick, how many cylinders on your bike. I once had a Matchless 500cc single, made my eyeballs do that.

                Dave

                #184105
                MalcB
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                  @malcb52554

                  not tried it on my Harley yet

                  Was faultless on my Triumph Explorer before I sold it and is now on my MV Brutale. Each time just clamped on the mirror stem and not behind a screen either. My camera is a Sony HDR – AS15.

                  What camera are you using Nick and where are you clamping?

                  #184107
                  Nick_G
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                    @nick_g

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                    Hi guy's and thanks for the replies.

                    4 cyl 600 Honda Hornet.

                    Camera mount was clamped to the mirror stem which is reasonably stable as its mounted to the support bracket for the fairing as close to the root of the stem as possible.

                    Camera is a Canon G16

                    I will try a different mounting point tomorrow if I get chance. Perhaps in the center of the bars and shoot through the screen. That may also cut down the wind noise too.

                    Cheers, Nick

                    #184111
                    V8Eng
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                      @v8eng

                      Sorry if this is the daft question of the century, so please do not shoot me down if you have already thought of it.

                      Have you made sure the camera image stabilisation is set to "on" ?

                      Edited By V8Eng on 21/03/2015 23:22:20

                      #184112
                      Jeff Dayman
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                        @jeffdayman43397

                        Mount it on your helmet – your body is an excellent vibe damper.

                        Failing that look online for Isodamp or Sorbothane materials. JD

                        #184114
                        Nick_G
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                          @nick_g
                          Posted by Jeff Dayman on 21/03/2015 23:22:54:

                          Mount it on your helmet – your body is an excellent vibe damper.

                          You want me to drill a hole in my carbon fiber helmet and ride round with a box on my head.? lol cheeky

                          Being an 'action cam' to be fair was not really in the design equation of the G16. But it would be nice to have a play at that, but being honest it's not what I bought it for so it's not a major issue. It has however got my brain ticking for a solution to the vibration issue.

                          Cheers, Nick

                          #184119
                          daveb
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                            @daveb17630

                            Nick, I've had several Hondas and the mirrors always vibrate, my CBR600 was particularly bad in this respect, your engine is derived from this.

                            You can buy a shoulder mount, a well known pirate had a parrot on his.

                            Dave

                            #184123
                            Enough!
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                              @enough

                              Not exactly relevant, but when you get it working, run the resulting video through HandyAvi, keep very 5th or 10th frame and make a time lapse movie after the style of "London to Brighton …."

                              #184131
                              JasonB
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                                @jasonb

                                Pinch a gyro stabalised gimble off a drone etc, might have to sell the bike first to afford one like this

                                #184136
                                Michael Gilligan
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                                  @michaelgilligan61133
                                  Posted by JasonB on 22/03/2015 07:42:26:

                                  … one like this

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                                  Jason,

                                  That looks an amazing little unit, and; if it performs to specification, a bargain price.

                                  the original Heli-Tele [which we vibration tested] was a little upmarket from that.

                                  Nick's underlying problems are the size and weight of his camera; which far exceed the GoPro for which that stabiliser is intended.

                                  MichaelG.

                                  #184142
                                  FMES
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                                    @fmes
                                    Posted by Jeff Dayman on 21/03/2015 23:22:54:

                                    Mount it on your helmet – your body is an excellent vibe damper.

                                    Not good, thats what almost killed Schumacher.

                                    #184153
                                    Dave Martin
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                                      @davemartin29320
                                      Posted by JasonB on 22/03/2015 07:42:26:

                                      Pinch a gyro stabalised gimble off a drone etc, might have to sell the bike first to afford one like this

                                      Not sure those basic gyro-stabilised mounts will help. They can damp relatively low frequency variations in yaw, pitch & roll caused by change in the vehicle's attitude – but (unless extremely sophisticated) are unlikely to cope with engine and road roughness vibration.

                                      #184161
                                      pgk pgk
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                                        @pgkpgk17461

                                        Tere is an interesting product called zeal gel (Align do a thinner version) that we used to damp vibration in r/c gasser helis for their gyros. I vaguelly recall a video showing a sheet of similar stuff being used to cushion an egg dropped from 20 or 30 feet wthout cracking. But even with zeal gel we used to find the need for a metal plate added on top of it to help damp out some vibes.

                                        If you knew the vibe frequency was going to be in a limited range then a nount with arms and weights might be tuned tuned for that. I;ve used similar as long rod stabilisers in target archery. Not that'd you'ld want rods of that order sticking out anywhere waiting to impale you….

                                        #184251
                                        daveb
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                                          @daveb17630

                                          pgk pgk,

                                          Honda use the motorcycle mirrors as harmonic dampers, it's very sophisticated engineering, no British company did it.

                                          Dave

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