[Fot] Bullet Style Cameras

[Tony Drews]

www.racerpartswholesale.com has a few systems.  Their website is 
designed so I can't do a direct link to the product line, but it's 
featured on the main page.  I've got the SPI-S1 connected to a Sony 
camcorder with digital image stabilization.  That one had a crappy 
built in mike, so I rewired it to use a $25 Radio Shack external 
mike.  Sounds decent now.  Picture looks good, the camcorder on the 
rollbar shake is gone.  It's a pretty wide angle picture.  I did have 
to put a little sun visor over it as looking directly into the sun 
caused a line in the picture.  They've got more complete kits - the 
one with an external mike and a solid state DVR (digital video 
recorder) is intriguing.  You can see an example of the output at: 
http://www.tonydrews.com/Videos/TonyGrattan08222004web.wmv (race 
starts about 3 min into that one).  In that video, I've lowered the 
resolution to make a smaller video file - the normal output fills a 
standard def TV nicely.

- Tony
'63 TR-4 #95

At 06:55 PM 1/7/2007, Steven Groh wrote:
>Anyone have a recommendation for a roll-bar mounted bullet style video camera
>for a typical vintage race car?  My goal is zero vibration, good wide angle
>coverage and small size, remote control from dashboard and a good sound
>recorder.  I'm done with the brick-sized vibratory Handicam on the rollbar.
>
>Thanks
>
>Steve Groh
>63 Manning Spitfire
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