High Speed High Def Video Cams

Am looking to purchase a high speed high def video cam for external observation of various things related to our Pro Mod in action.

I figured that people must have already tried some of these cams in the past, and may have formed an opinion toward what has worked well and what has not.

I look forward to any feedback. I'm a video dummy, and the cam will ultimately be handed off to various willing but inexperienced volunteers.

Thanks.

 

Racepak sells a camera that will sync to your Racepak Data System. If that isn't an option, check out www.crutchfield.com, they have some really nice cameras.

Brandon Booher
NHRA TAD #44

 

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my good friend Marc Schankweiler sells a really great camera I have, along with many outlaw street guys. great camera, sound, easy to install, and great price. contact him at Mar-Shan Motorsports

 

The GO Pro is really nice too, its not really high def I guess but it works well. and its cheap.
This is it in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HELbKIGev4g

 

Maybe when Randy gets that dash setup for the datalogger, you could rig up a WOT switch so that after the launch you would be able to monitor the rear camera of course I don't know if I would have wanted to know what was chasing me


PS, Tell Mike that Leahy at electrimotion now has a deal where you can hook up a crank position sensor and an expansion module and connect it to the logger. It allows you to make sure the 8973 is doing exactly what is should be and in addition you could overlay the timing curve with shaft speed and Gs forward and lateral to see the affect of varied timing on the launch.

Richard G

 

Casio Exilim EX-F1 Cost $1000 new Works great, but only during the day. It need a good amount of light. heres a vid of my car at 300 frames per second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ8-yF2Q0K4

 

Damn that's an excellent camera, About 4 years ago I shopped around and the best thing available for under 3 grand was a Panasonic video ($639.00) cam because its uses 3 cmos elements its able to have a very fast shutter speed (this is what is most important for action to keep the shot from blurring) it only does 30 fps but its shutter is 1/9000 manual and 30 fps and 1/1200 auto

Comparing it to the Exilim is a no brainer,

the Exilim EX-F1 is much better as shown below, it was a bitch to find in the specs that matter, its always hidden shutter speed and frame rate are the 2 biggies for action shots. Its an absoulute bargain at around $729.00

The Exilim appears to be able to shoot full res at over 60 fps with adequate shutter speed to freeze tire wrinkles completely.

• Auto: 1 to 1/2000 second
• Aperture Priority AE: 1 to 1/2000 second
• Shutter Speed Priority AE: 60 to 1/40000 second
• Manual: 60 to 1/40000 second


Thanks for the tip Danny,

Richard G

 

Casio has out a new version not as good but less than half the cost (300-400$) of the EX-F1 but I don't know if it does as good as the EX-F1