Trying out the camera mount.

Just a few photo's taken from the bike to see how well the camera mount works!

My main concerns are vibration through the mount, the slight 'lag' that digital cameras have when acquiring an image and the whole thing falling off and bouncing down the road!

The camera is my (by now) ancient Fuji Finepix 4900. I see no reason to change it at the moment as it seems to work well within my abilities with a camera. I might try one of my Pentax 35mm SLRs too. Both have motor-drives but as neither have auto-focus the results might be bit of a lottery. Perhaps with a 28mm wide-angle, set to a fairly low F-stop I might get reasonable results.

You may be able to see in this photo that I have put some fairly thick foam on the camera mounting plate. I think that this and the five inch Ram arm are enough to damp out most of the vibrations that might cause camera wobble. I use two velcro wrap tapes to secure the camera strap to both the Ram arm and the engine bar. This should prevent the camera bouncing down the road and ensure that it just goes beneath my rear wheel instead!

I think this is the best effort so far. I wanted to get the bike shadow in the image.

The camera actually sits just ahead of my left knee in this set-up. To take a photo I just drop my hand to my knee and can then find the shutter release easily without taking my eyes from the road ahead. Just have to try to anticipate the photo slightly because the camera needs a second to acquire the image (I told you it was old!) and even at relatively low speeds the view changes pretty quickly.