Mounting ideas

drbandkgb

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
This thread is for GoPro mounting ideas only.
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Do you have a interesting way or place to mount your camera?
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J Everett

Suspension Lift
Founding Member
Location
Houma, LA
I had made a mount that attached to the head rest posts once upon a time. It was great on the street in my Focus, but the seats in our rigs move so much, it made for a worthless shot, especially off pavement. Right now I have a suction cup mount, and a clip permanently mounted to the dash that the cam can attach to, but I like the shot from the back seat that shows driver inputs and such. It makes for a better sense of the speed you're travelling. The shot from in the windshield always appears much slower on video than it actually is. I think my next mount will be a spring bar (shower curtain rod?) between the two back doors with a motorcycle handlebar mount attached to it.


I also could do the handlebar mount on the cargo rack in the back, but I'd have to zoom the camera a bit to get a better shot through the windshield, and zoomed shots tend to be a bit blurry.
 

granitex

Skid Plates
Founding Member
Location
Columbus OH
A while back I fabed up a mount that can clamp to just about any round stock, it works well on the Shrockworks bumper, but will work on most. An extra tab on a light bar works well also. F I can find a pic I will post it. If not I will try to take one tomorrow.
 

AZhiAZiAM

Suspension Lift
Location
Fresno,CA
i saw a guy on dezertrangers that had a gopro on his front bumper, basically used a light tab mount and put in right in the middle of two of his lights. the video was awesome from that view, especially when he jumped it.
 

dhyde79

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Amarillo, TX
Well, my first few videos I suction cup mounted it to the left front corner of the hood.

Now I'm seriously debating putting an adhesive pad mount on the top of my front license plate mount.

I was hoping that drb could figure out some cool way to mount it up in a much less risky way...
 

dhyde79

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Amarillo, TX
Well, the camera won't fit above the license plate, so, I stuck the adhesive pad just to the left of the plate, I'll set it up driving home and we'll see how it looks...
 

dhyde79

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Amarillo, TX
Need to find a way to make a "shade" for it, way too sunny...perhaps I'll go get one of the polarizer filters that you have to install...
 

jmnielsen

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Lincoln, NE
Need to find a way to make a "shade" for it, way too sunny...perhaps I'll go get one of the polarizer filters that you have to install...

They help immensely from my experience using one with my DSLR.

On a side note I made basically a clip on thing for baseball hats. I took some kydex (a thermoplastic) and heated it up with a heat gun, then formed it around the bill of one of my caps. When it set I heated it again a little and closed the gap so that it would stay clipped on the bill with tension only. After that all it took was an adhesive mount to the cap and I was done! Took all of 5 minutes. Ill add a photo later.
 
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