Dvx @ 200mph?

TDE

TDE

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Well, I hope this got your attention.

I consider myself different, very different from most DVX users. I don't plan to shoot scripted material, material for profit, or build some sort of business around my camera.

I have been shooting video since 1999, and have done some crazy stuff.

But one of the craziest things I do (alot) is shoot video at 150+mph. The fastest I have been with a prosumer camera was 208mph. The fastest I have had one out a window was 175mph...

This was all with my VX2100, the greatest low-light camera under $3000

Well, now with my new toy, the DVX, I foresee me taking it up to speed as well. I like that the hood has holes in it, I think the wind will pass through it well, and not give me alot of travel.

Sound interesting yet?

I think alot of you guys like to shoot indie kinda stuff for schools and design firms, studios, etc. Me, I get my kicks hanging out in high horsepower cars driving all kinds of fast on every road possible, from drag strips to road courses to airstrips to NASCAR grade super ovals.

Has anyone else here taken a DVX to the EXTREME? Like in the wild, the desert, the artic, in a fire, or at speeds of more than 200mph exposed directly to the lens???

I think I am alone... :cry:
 
The only time I've been over 150mph was in a plane, and I refuse to attach my DVX outside of a plane. It's a long way down.
 
TDE, I like the way you think! I have been 161mph in a 46 foot skater offshore race boat (a cat with twin supercharged sterling 1550hp engines) with an hvx. Not one frame was dropped, it was a very violent ride. Several years ago my old camcorder was sucked out the roof of a Ferrari around 170mph (the top was down). I'm going to be shooting a tornado chasing doc this spring so I'll let you know how that works out. Where is Grapevine TX? If we make it down that way this spring you'll have to come out chasing with us.

BTW I also do this for fun :)
 
I did a shot driving with one hand a shooting with my Dvx out with my left hand out the window, In my Subaru Svx, the camera was only about 6 in from the road so it was an awesome shot, I only went up to about 45mph and the force was too great so i pulled over and took off the hood and my external mic, made a huge difference!
 
wouldn't it be very bad to use a tape based camera under High G conditions?

I was originally suppose to shoot the inside of an acrobatic glider flight until I realized the tape deck would likely rip apart at 6-8 g's

HXV with the solid state seems like your best solution.
 
TDE said:
....... The fastest I have had one out a window was 175mph...

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Hmmm...... The experience of doing 165 on the Nevada desert highways on my Kawasaki ZZR1200 tells me you weren't doing this hand-held. How did you mount it outside the window?

DDP
 
dory_breaux said:
Um, I would try to find some kind of shock proof housing for it.
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I do hand held... :)

bilgami said:
u got any video of doing this?
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Sure. Let me dig up some old stuff and see what I can find!

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/7e33b696-0d9e-4e50-beca-98b3006c6cd0.htm

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/bb43c68b-e642-4f67-a598-983a004f9cc0.htm

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/c4c72c79-7b0e-4720-b42d-983a00479564.htm

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/76ec82f9-7a1c-4f28-b868-983a00450c3a.htm

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/1e537653-c67e-4ed5-a3d3-983a005406dc.htm


ChipG said:
TDE, I like the way you think! I have been 161mph in a 46 foot skater offshore race boat (a cat with twin supercharged sterling 1550hp engines) with an hvx. Not one frame was dropped, it was a very violent ride. Several years ago my old camcorder was sucked out the roof of a Ferrari around 170mph (the top was down). I'm going to be shooting a tornado chasing doc this spring so I'll let you know how that works out. Where is Grapevine TX? If we make it down that way this spring you'll have to come out chasing with us.

BTW I also do this for fun :)
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Grapevine is 3 miles N of DFW Intl Airport. :)

ddp said:
Hmmm...... The experience of doing 165 on the Nevada desert highways on my Kawasaki ZZR1200 tells me you weren't doing this hand-held. How did you mount it outside the window?

DDP
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Hand held bro.

My 200mph run was out the top of a C6 CORVETTE. The coupe has a removable roof, I braced myself, and hunkered down on the roof, standing in the passenger seat. At speed of 120+ the moisture in my eyes began to come out, even with my lids shut tight. I needed goggles.

Footage came out fine... :) Noise was terrible, but could be dubbed...
 
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