A new (old) camera
Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 08:12pm
For the next two months I won’t have my little digital camera, it will be travelling Europe with my parents. I won’t miss the camera, except for when I go for rides. Which I am planning to do a few of in the coming weekends.
Since it’s not practical to take my 400D and the camera in my iPhone isn’t good enough for what I want I ressurected an idea I had when I first mused about taking photos while riding: buy a secondhand camera to mount to the bike instead of the camera I bought new.
So I started watching eBay for cheap, but working cameras, even bidding on a couple. I ended up bidding on, and then winning, a Canon S45. There wasn’t any postage costs either as it was literally around the corner so I walked around to pick it up.
I have two thoughts about how to mount it:
- the simplest being to attach the mount from an old Cateye light to the tripod mount on the camera and then slotting that onto the brackets used for one of my lights
- more complicated is a bracket that holds the camera forward and at the same level of the handlebar, possibly with damping to reduce vibrations
I’m thinking the first one … for now.
(lets not mention the Flip video camera that I have also been meaning to mount, but that would be more suited for the second option)
