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Keeping it under 5 minutes but... here are some nice colors from last week, riding around parts of Maine :smile:


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How absolutely beautiful.

<span style="font-style: italic">Almost</span> as pretty as the Virginia countryside . . . :lol:
 
Nice. We were at Watkins Glen and I'd say the colours were just past peak.
I've never been to that part of Maine (I saw the Rt. 186 sign).
What camera were you using? Considering you stuck it to the side of the car, I'm guessing a GoPro but not sure.
Nice, simple banjo music.....fit the video nicely.
 
What part of Maine was that taken at?
We stayed in Bar Harbor way back in '79 -
wish we could go back again.

- Doug
 
Nice videos. We stayed in Bar Harbor 2 weeks ago on a trip to Machias to pick up an old outboard motor I bought. Went through Winter Harbor also.

Although there appears to be a bit of color in the video, this is the worst "fall colors" year I've ever seen. The leaves barely changed & are now falling.

Thanks for posting that.
 
Ya find a Seagull, John? :laugh:
 
DrEntropy said:
Ya find a Seagull, John? :laugh:
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Saw one in a museum in Bangor on the trip back. Only rich guys with big sailboats have them around here.

(The outboard I bought was an old Evinrude identical to the one I have. My plan is to combine the two engines into one that will actually propel a boat.

Of course, two "identical" sick engines of the same vintage are likely to have "identical" broken and worn parts.)

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coldplugs said:
Nice videos. We stayed in Bar Harbor 2 weeks ago on a trip to Machias to pick up an old outboard motor I bought. Went through Winter Harbor also.

Although there appears to be a bit of color in the video, this is the worst "fall colors" year I've ever seen. The leaves barely changed & are now falling.

Thanks for posting that.
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Thanks John - fall colors are a crapshoot anywhere. I was in Virginia a few days before that and things were just barely changing. Several years ago I was there during the same dates and it was some of the most spectacular color I'd ever seen (even living there most of my life).

I can't complain about the weather in Maine though. Although it was a little warm for my liking I lucked out!

aeronca65t said:
What camera were you using? Considering you stuck it to the side of the car, I'm guessing a GoPro but not sure.
Nice, simple banjo music.....fit the video nicely.
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Yup - GoPro HD. I shot a lot more but I must not have tightened it down all the way on the last batch I shot - lots of vibration that wasn't there in any of the others.

When I pulled into one of the parking areas at Schoodic Point, someone yelled from another car about the camera and took some pictures. He thought it was pretty neat, don't think anyone else really noticed though :smile:

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AngliaGT said:
What part of Maine was that taken at?
We stayed in Bar Harbor way back in '79 -
wish we could go back again.
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Some of it is in Acadia National Park on MDI near Bar Harbor, some of it is along some back roads and US1 north of Ellsworth and Winter Harbor.
 
Here's another. Nothing fancy. I dropped the audio to almost nothing, it's just wind noise.



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Thank you very much for the trips east. These roving car movies are great!
 
True 'nuff...that was sunset so, I suppose those places are the first to have sunset too :laugh:
 
I've been thinking about getting a GoPro. We used them on the team. They are fantastic little cameras. I don't know what model we had. I just called my guy and he can get me the first gen GMHW5170 for $119. I'd much rather the HD but funds are tight.

We're thinking about shooting some vid for Kelly's pottery studio. Wheel throwing, raku etc. We have an old one she bought me years ago but I don't want to use that. I figured, if I'm getting a new camera, might as well get one I can stick on the car. I've been toying w/ the idea of youtube stuff for fun. It's always a disaster when I cook. It never turns out like I planned. Might as well preserve it for posterity. I'm mainly thinking about it to keep me from being bored when she's not home.

"The Helpless Chef."

Featuring "Toaster Chicken" and "How to cook bacon on the hood of a truck."

Scott, how much that run ya? You got the 1080 or 960 model?
 
I have the latest GoPro HD 1080 and use the extended battery option. The extended battery (bacpac they call it) lasts a <span style="font-style: italic">long time</span>. They also have an LCD live-video back for it. Both the extended battery and LCD display only work on the 1080. On these two car videos I used the suction-cup mount that comes with the "motorsports" package.

I haven't sprung for the LCD video back for mine yet but it sure would be nice. Getting things lined up is purely by guesswork and trying to line the body of the camera up with parts of the car. A cheap inclinometer would help quite a bit too, you're still guessing at the horizon (unless you experiment quite a bit).

The 1080 (with current firmware) can be mounted upside down too. I don't think the 960 can.
 
A little <span style="font-style: italic">negative</span> info about this camera and others with similar shutters. The GoPro cameras and many other CMOS-sensor cameras use what they call a "rolling shutter" where the image is exposed along the vertical axis of the image. The rolling shutter causes two annoying effects: (1) when panning horizontally the images will skew (buildings will look like they're leaning), and (2)in environments that subject the camera to rapid vertical motion or vibration the images will appear to quickly contract and expand vertically - I call it "jellocam" myself :smile:

On the two car videos I posted, the camera was pretty solidly mounted and the car (a Chrysler 200) had pretty soft suspension. On a car with really stiff suspension on a rough road the video <span style="font-style: italic">may</span> show that jello-cam wobbly effect. Even worse, mounting on an area that isn't completely solid (soft bumpers or a large area of sheet metal that has flex to it) the effect can be pretty dramatic.

Some software can take out <span style="font-style: italic">some</span> of the effect <span style="font-style: italic">sometimes</span> but the nature of the sensors in these cameras just makes it a fact of life.

I have other video from that same car that was hardly viewable, partially because of the sensor's wobble/jello effect. I think I didn't have all the knuckles of the mount tightened all the way so the camera itself wobbled - obviously clean video is possible though because I shot it :smile:

So, the camera will do a great job when you set it in the right environment in the right mount, just be aware of the limitations.
 
Here's a high-vibration environment with the obvious "jellocam" effect. The camera is mounted upside-down on the bottom of the airplane. The camera is hard-mounted to an area that has a little bit of give to it. In "cruise" flight enough vibration is transmitted from he engines/props to the camera that this is the inevitable result...some additional vibration from air buffeting doesn't help either.




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That's still great vid all things considered. Thanks for the info.
 
Nice....even with the minor "jello" effect. Thanks for the explanation of that effect! More knowledge is useful as I look at these types of cameras.

I have an original GoPro, which I dislike. Good (lithium) batteries barely last 20 minutes and the on/off/mode switch is very difficult to operate with gloves (or even my fat fingers). I wrote to the company about the short battery life and got a really crappy response.

But the new GoPro versions seem better (albeit expensive).

I'm looking at the GoPro, Aiptech, Veho, Drift, Sony Bloggie, Contour HD or another Flip camera (mine died in the rain last weekend at Watkins Glen, but it's been very reliable, quality was fine and price was under $100......made my own mount).

There may be others out there; I know there are cameras that include GPS track position, speeds, G-force, etc. I'm still looking.

In the end, I may buy another Flip or the Sony Bloggie.
 
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