My latest in-car video (a drive with a TT and an S2000)

[ga41]

I met up with a couple of mates and we went for a drive a few days ago. The route was from Paphos town to near Peyia (Coral Bay road) and then turning right to take the road to Polis and Latchi. I know most of you will be unfamiliar with the names but this might be of help to anyone visiting the island in the future. Anyway it's a brilliant route with mostly medium-fast corners along with a dash of slow to medium ones. Great scenery, usually light traffic and mostly well surfaced. Returning from Latchi on the same road is even better and if you do it in the afternoon there are amazing views as you're nearing Peyia. Excellent run.

The route is this one right here: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...df795&t=h&z=12

Anyway to the admittedly slightly too long video! I would have even more footage along with pictures but my camera died a couple of kilometers before reaching Latchi... here you go, hope you enjoy.

[zKnuds3712]

that looks really nice! love the music too! can i ask what kind of camera and mount you used?

[ga41]

Hi zKnuds3712, the camera is an old Panasonic FX07 point and shoot camera in its video mode. It shoots 848 x 480 or 640 x 480 video at 30fps. The mount, if you can call it that, is simply a piece of blu-tack. I put the camera behind the nav screen and as far forwards as it can go with its lens extended and then just wedge a piece of blu-tack betweeen the top of the camera and the windscreen. Done! Video would be even jerkier but the camera has built in optical image stabilisation.

Edit: Oh and the song is Technologic by Daft Punk. Pretty old! Thanks for watching guys.

[r4gs]

^ingenious way to mount the camera!

[ga41]

Thanks r4gs. It works really well and costs practically nothing. Pretty pleased with the results!

[zKnuds3712]

Originally Posted by ga41

Hi zKnuds3712, the camera is an old Panasonic FX07 point and shoot camera in its video mode. It shoots 848 x 480 or 640 x 480 video at 30fps. The mount, if you can call it that, is simply a piece of blu-tack. I put the camera behind the nav screen and as far forwards as it can go with its lens extended and then just wedge a piece of blu-tack betweeen the top of the camera and the windscreen. Done! Video would be even jerkier but the camera has built in optical image stabilisation.

Edit: Oh and the song is Technologic by Daft Punk. Pretty old! Thanks for watching guys.

OH! so the camera actually has a built in stabilizer, thats really cool. I was hoping it was a mount that had it because my vidoes always come out a tab bit shaky because of the solid mounts

[ga41]

Originally Posted by zKnuds3712

OH! so the camera actually has a built in stabilizer, thats really cool. I was hoping it was a mount that had it because my vidoes always come out a tab bit shaky because of the solid mounts

A lot of small point and shoot cameras now come with optical image stabilisation.. Perhaps get a used one..?