justinsain

Back around 1998 I used to work with a NSCAR team as the photographer and the owner/driver wanted lots of video including in car stuff. Back then I had to get a lipstick camera from the spy store and hook it up to a miniDV camera and add a mic because the lipstick didn't have audio. Then I had to find a way to mount all that inside the car and make it accessible because the video camera had to go through a sequence of buttons to start record which was a pain. I had to get one of the pit crew to start recording because I would be somewhere else on the track using another video camera for the outside shots.

It was a real pain in the ass to get some good in car video because either the crew guy would mess up the record button or they would bump the camera mount while moving around inside the car. I had a really low success rate but when it worked it was pretty good. Having something like the GoPro HD would've been a dream for me back then

I bought the Motorsports Hero with the idea of adding video to my exotic car photography but really didn't think about the part where I would have to actually mount the camera on someone's $400,000 exotic car I tested it out on my Jeep but haven't used it on another car yet. There is a big Italian Car track day at Daytona coming up in a few weeks and I hope to use it then.

The GoPro is an amazing camera that begs to be used creatively. I took it on the Kayak trip above and mounted it on a pole and stuck it underwater to get some video of Bass and turtles. I've been checking into a quadrcopyter to mount it to for some aerial video. The possibilities are endless.

Here's a frame grab from a NASCAR Goodys Dash race at Daytona before the GoPro when I did it the hard way.