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Drag Racing Discussions => Front Engine Dragsters => Topic started by: wideopen231 on December 26, 2017, 02:44:26 PM
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Have about 300 bucks in best buy gift ards.Thinking about getting Go Pro camera for FED. Wondering how many here use go pro and thoughts,good or bad.
Figure can help with car and keep eye on the light bulb in the seat.
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I did not like my GoPro. Junky mounts, and to much wind noise.
If I were to get a new video camera, it would be a Contour. They have some with GPS, and you can have telemetry on your videos.
http://contour.com (http://contour.com)
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I have a Go Pro Hero 4 Black and the biggest gripe that I have with it is the overly complex menu. I also have an older Replay and that is very simple to operate. The other thing with the Go Pro is the price--you can buy very close to the same thing for about 1/10 of the price if you scout around the web.
Roo
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A year or two back the Replay XD and Replay Mini were the best --All the circle track guys used them as perspective is close to normal where GoPros have much more of a wide angle and can be complicated to operate--The Replay cameras are simple as a stone ax to use--I have one and like it a lot--they are just nowhere to be had now--Ebay used to have a hundred ads for them now nothing! Good Vibrations sells them for about 3-4 times $$ what they cost so that is no option--I paid like $120 for mine --they are not that hot at night but perfect in daytime--really small too but they are just nowhere to be had for reasonable price anymore
If you can get a Replay Mini for $120 range snap it up! If it quits working card is full just delete the card and it is back to work
You can go to Youtube and watch 4 videos I did with my Replay search david kluttz dragster--I am almost Amish and can't edit so there is a LOT of BS after each run just skip all that LOL
You can make your mounts from using parts from the crappy mounts and making them work
pawn shops are FULL of GoPros and Replays etc cheap FWIW If it will not work they usually exchange but most are just fine
Sound is crappy on any in car video camera that is cheap no way around it--we put scotch tape OVER the mic hole on the Replays and it made sound better but still crappy
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These videos were shot with a GoPro 2, which was still new at the time. The GoPro 3 came out right after this season. As you can tell, the microphone REALLY sucks. The camera mount dampens nothing, so you hear every vibration and thud on the car. I mounted the camera just behind the fuel tank one two and right in front of the engine on two, and you can hardly hear the engine, and it's a Top Fuel car!!!
https://youtu.be/P00vU8Tvp1Q (https://youtu.be/P00vU8Tvp1Q)
https://youtu.be/Q01RLt4ZN4M (https://youtu.be/Q01RLt4ZN4M)
https://youtu.be/-mviHjOswtY (https://youtu.be/-mviHjOswtY)
https://youtu.be/1RB2lNpZ93k (https://youtu.be/1RB2lNpZ93k)
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I have a Replay XD. Works pretty good. audio is awful even with the tape over it. but you can learn somethings about the way you drive and what is going on with blower belts, tires, fuel out the pipes etc. just never liked the clunky go pro. I think they have a smaller version now.