[from Jack W Drews]
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>We thought the mount caused the shake, so we bought a mount from Pegasus
>for about $100. No improvement in the shake despite shimming and much
>fooling around. We have been told that the culprit is the tape
>mechanism, which does not tolerate shake too well.
Same experience here. Max RPM has a major effect on my Sony 8mm
It would go to blue screen above 7500RPM
>The videos we have seen with the least shake (other than the very
>expensive remote jobs) were made with cameras with the picture
>stabilization feature. Our old camera died last year, so we're starting
>the season with a new Sony with stabilization.
>Quite honestly we have not been able to use the video much for driver
>improvement (the fault of the video or the quality of the drivers?) and
>we find that a shelf full of old tapes is used about as much as a shelf
>of snapshot albums. Nevertheless, we intend to keep taping because it's
>fun to see it one time.
Funny how we are the same, I have 13 years worth of tapes, all watched
once. Someday I'd like to make *one* highlights tape, but that take time..
Watching 2 hours of practice laps is, ah, quite boring..;-)
>By the way, SCCA carefully inspects camera mounts in cars in their
>events and requires a safety strap or secondary fastener of some type,
>to prevent the camera from becoming a missile in an accident. We should
>all follow the same practice.
At Wine Country this weekend, the tech inpsector asked me to mount the
camera, and watched me strap it down. He then stuck a tech stciker
to it. First time they've done that....perhaps it was because he was
training a novice.....
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