CMOS wobble and in-car video: motorsport

audidude

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Hi,

I'm a newbie here, 1st post.
Your site has given me the answer to a thorny problem that has taken me ages to find answer to thanks to this excellent article by Barry Green:
http://www.dvxuser.com/jason/CMOS-CCD/ - thanks Barry.

I purchased a Canon HFM40 for use in my rally car, mounted to the roll-cage with a Manfrotto clamp. Imagine my disappointment when EVERY clip using EVERY combination of resolutioin, frame rate and shutter speed looks like watching it through jello :(

Clearly this CMOS camera with a rolling shutter is totally unsuitable for use in a race car, or indeed any application where there is significant vibration of the camera - and I read EVERY review I could find on the camera before purchase and NOT ONE of them mentioned this problem!

Unfortunately, apart form buying a CCD camera, there appears to not be a solution my predicament. Unless someone here can suggest one, I'm faced with having to replace this otherwise excellent, near new camera :angry:
 
Possibly a stabiliser program could reduce rolling shutter, like proDAD Mercalli. From memory, it's about $200-$300 (well worth it for me; I often want to stabilise my bad footage).

I've never actually tried Mercalli on rolling shutter, and I don't know how effective this feature is... Maybe Google knows.
 
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