Alpine Passes Tour 2007 - The Movie

[nick]

It was a long, wet, cold, uneventful Easter weekend, so I made this compilation of our video clips ....

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[Dave56]

Great film, very insperational, roll on summer - shame about the music choice though, a bit predictable!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Room 101]

Wow... thanks for that... just took my lunch break to another dimension...

Looks like you were lucky with the weather Nick... ours was mostly under cloud and rain last August...

I take it that the camera is mounted on your helmet, allowing for some great sweeping shots...

I have a ram-mount for my digi camera, mounted low on the engine bars, its a long way to reach, especially during or approaching hairpins... it also takes a lot of vibration from the engine so most of my shots are too blurry.. but some come out ok...

 

[AlanL]

Any chance you can post the route ?

 

[nick]

Looks like you were lucky with the weather ...

I take it that the camera is mounted on your helmet, allowing for some great sweeping shots...

The weather wasn't all good ! Picture below was at Bikers Point on Gross Glockner.

My camera is mounted on the handlebars, my more adventurous travelling companions have a more manual mounting system

 

[nick]

Any chance you can post the route ?

I have a 600Kb Track Log.

Too big to attach to this thread, but I could email it to you.

 

[BigAlMacMac]

My camera is mounted on the handlebars, my more adventurous travelling companions have a more manual mounting system

Do you mount the actual video camera or a seporate camera connect to your camera in a tank bag?

I take it the manual methods are just riding holding the camera... to adventurous for me.

Heading off to the alps with me dad end of May and hoping to get some good footage, so tips welcome.

 

[TopCat]

A nice reminder of our Summer 2007 trip. Thanks Nick.

 

[nick]

Do you mount the actual video camera or a seporate camera connect to your camera in a tank bag?

I take it the manual methods are just riding holding the camera... to adventurous for me.

Heading off to the alps with me dad end of May and hoping to get some good footage, so tips welcome.

I use a regular digital camera mounted on a "flexible" tripod, a bit like the Gorilla tripod pictured. I wrap the legs around the mirror and the handlebars, and wrap a long velcro strip around it to keep it tight. I also loop the camera string around the mirror.

Once the camera is set in "video" mode it is easy enough to switch on and off even while riding.

It's cheap and effective. It works for me.

 

[BigAlMacMac]

I use a regular digital camera mounted on a "flexible" tripod, a bit like the Gorilla tripod pictured.

Thanks Nick. I had a look at these and there is two models, a light weight one and a SLR one. Do you remember which one you used?

How did it get on with vibration? Did you do anything special?

 

[nick]

Thanks Nick. I had a look at these and there is two models, a light weight one and a SLR one. Do you remember which one you used?

How did it get on with vibration? Did you do anything special?

My tripod is actually a different make altogether (I have no idea what it is!!).

My camera is an Olympus SW770, which is pretty light. It has the added advantage of being waterproof and shockproof.

Vibration doesn't seem to be an issue once moving, it is worse when the bike is stationary and ticking over.