GoPro Mount

[LeeRS]

I can’t find a good angle for my GoPro on trackdays using the cage. Especially with the mount I have at the moment as it either sits to high or to low.

I remember seeing a while ago there was a mount that went between the two bucket seats and mounted through the harness holes in either seat.

I’m not sure if this was custom made or it was an actual thing.

Any ideas?

 

[JamesBryan]

What's your setup look like currently?

Cage mounts are usually pretty decent, then use the right settings to crop the view to Wide, Medium or Narrow.

 

[MarkCup]

Yeah, show us what you've got and what you're capturing at the moment.

There's not many GoPro mounting methods or tweaks I've not tried!

 

[JamesBryan]

I've a box of adaptors for GoPro I can bring to CSF if needed.

 

[JamesBryan]

This is a mates car a few years ago using my cage mount.

 

[LeeRS]

I’ll get some pics of where it’s mounted at the moment.

I have a hero 7 and it always looks really zoomed out and fish eyed.

Pic below of the view, as you can see it’s really high and the actually image itself is very high in contrast.

 

[LeeRS]

I have purchased a GoPro cage mount last night so just waiting for that to arrive

 

[LeeRS]

This is a mates car a few years ago using my cage mount.

This is the view I am looking to achieve.

Is this post edit where he has zoomed it in then?

 

[JamesBryan]

This is the view I am looking to achieve.

Is this post edit where he has zoomed it in then?

It's my video 😂 using my stuff.

Not edited, that's Narrow view on my GoPro I think.

 

[LeeRS]

It's my video 😂 using my stuff.

Not edited, that's Narrow view on my GoPro I think.

Ah 😂 I read your post wrong.

Didn’t realise there was a narrow view on there.
I will have a look through the settings in that case.

 

[MarkCup]

Ah 😂 I read your post wrong.

Didn’t realise there was a narrow view on there.
I will have a look through the settings in that case.

In the good old days GoPros had a 'spot meter' setting that meant it always adjusted exposure to the center point in the field of view. Worked really well for fixed in-car cameras.

Now, you get to choose by tapping the screen to set where that focal exposure spot is in the FOV.

The trouble with that is that, for the likes of us that have a fixed camera needing capture through a windscreen, doing that every time you want to record is a) a pain in the ar$e and b) often completely impossible if you're strapped into a seat and just want to press go.

As @JamesBryan says, the way around that is narrowing your field of view so that more of what you capture is just the view through the windscreen...then the automatic exposure tends to work. You don't get such a wide view of what you're up to in the cabin though, and the best/only way I've found of doing that is running a second camera.

 

[LeeRS]

What I tend to do is open the boot and press record so I can see the screen and that it is recording before I’m strapped in. So setting a focal exposure spot may be possible.

I’ve had it a few times where I’ve been out, thinking it is recording to end up with just a photo at the end 🤦‍♂️

 

[JamesBryan]

I use a Hero 3 Black Edition so still has the old school spot metering.

Have you bought the official GoPro cage mount @LeeRS? That's the best one to use.

This one.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01L2CQ7K6/?tag=cliospnet01-21

 

[LeeRS]

I use a Hero 3 Black Edition so still has the old school spot metering.

Have you bought the official GoPro cage mount @LeeRS? That's the best one to use.

This one.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01L2CQ7K6/?tag=cliospnet01-21

I didn’t.

I bought this

But have just ordered that one you have sent a link for as-well now.

 

[JamesBryan]

I didn’t.

I bought this
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But have just ordered that one you have sent a link for as-well now.

Yeah that's the old style.

The newer one I linked is a lot more solid and easier to setup tbh.

Having those different angled extensions will be handy though.