Cruise to bowling alley

Published by rodfather on April 3, 2008 11:11 pm under Canon TX1, Gadgets, Hybrid Cams, Video


Cruise to bowling alley (unedited) from Rodfather on Vimeo.

Unedited.

My first video with my new Canon TX1. Took a cruise to bowling alley.

It was around 5PM, overcast, and raining. Basically just stuck in traffic. Somewhat of a good test to see if the autofocus would search all over the place. It wasn’t too bad though.

I had the camera mounted on a GorillaPod SLR. The video was very shaky but didn’t go into a mess of blur. The OIS did its job I guess. The shakiness was just too much.

I encoded the raw MJPEG file (2.48 GB!!) to H.264 at 3.5 Mbps with VLC player. VLC player is a very fast encoder but probably not the best quality. Especially since it only did 1 pass.

I did a bit of handheld toward the end. Someone was pulled over so wanted to see what the cops were up to.

Download MP4 from Vimeo page – 1280×720 30FPS H.264 3.5Mbps (274MB)

  • Rodfather
    Very nice. I saw that on eBay too. :) Sounds very tempting since doing these driving videos is fun and the GorillaPod is far from secure.
  • Bill
    Good stuff. I picked up a windshield camera mount off ebay from a guy who made them himself, worked pretty well. here is a short vid with it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3jB4XVDUgfo

    I'm thinking about picking up one of these, looks huge but I like the idea of being able to mount on the exterior. (hopefully works better than my bumpercam mount!)

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Steadicam-Camera-Stabilizer...
  • bobby
    maybe you've got too much car for that camera.
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