"Mr. Plow" <adam_is_mr_plow@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Hey, i don't know if anyone else remembers, but last year we had a brief
: talk about mounting a vid. camera inside a clear plastic box to get some
: good outside (onboard) shots of the action.
: Any more thoughts on this?
: I think we had trouble coming up with a good place to mount the camera on
: the truck... I know the trailer hitch was mentioned...
I think I'm going to try mounting an X10 wide angle camera on a
fixture mounted in the trailer hitch. The X10 cameras are supposed
to be waterproof, hopefully they will be able to take some shock too.
:-) I can probably isolate it somewhat with rubber. I would also need
to design a "cage" for it just so it doesn't get snagged by overhead
branches and such. That's the current plan...
---Jon-
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