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After spending the last 12 months looking for, buying, importing and testing the quaility of solid state lightweight incar cameras for motorsport use I've found the Go Pro Motorsport camera.

It's a 3 megapixel camera with glass lense, 16mb memory expandable to removable SD card (2Gb), 512x348 video, self timer, USB/RCA connection, powered by 2 AAA batteries and PC and Mac software.

Its suitable for CAMS drift, supersprint, hillclimb, circuit racing and rally use without a metal cradle as a it only weighs 40grams without batteries and under 100 with.

It can be used internally or externally on any smooth surface, it can even be fitted to a helmet for bike or kart filming!

I bought a bunch of these if anyone else wants one just PM me - $269 including mounting arms, software and cables.

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guesty - i'm gonna take some footage over the weekend, the only other footage online is compressed so doesn't really paint a true picture.

sau_man - i doubt the pictured arm would stick to an r32 dash, but the stick on mounting tabs in kit would stick on an r32 dash i reckon.

to not have a metal cradle the camera must be under 100grams.

At that price i'd rather spend an extra $100 and just buy a MiniDV Camcorder and get proper quality, I have never seen this unit before but my guess is the video quality will be no better than a $99 webcam (or $300 mobile phone quality).

I'll be happy to be shown otherwise....

sau_man - the suction arm can stick on windows or windscreen yeah.

benm - the quality is in line with the price, but certainly better than a webcam as you can see from the below footage which was resized and compressed for the web. i'll take some uncompressed.

the point of this one is you don't need the ridiculous fabricated 3mm thickness metal cage CAMS require for cameras over 100grams... next easiest option than this is a remote lipstick and base hd and then your looking at $1500+.

some footage taken at bathurst with one the other week - http://s162.photobucket.com:80/albums/t279...thurstInCar.flv

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh i'm temped to get one of these for my car, mount it in the top lh corner on the windscreen like a lot of the Targa cars dad. I've been playing with the dataloging with the datalogit (logging attessa, and brakes) , and with a camera i'll be able to overlay the speeds etc with this http://www.trackvision.net/

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i played around with it all weekend and some good results. the coolest was sticking it on the outside of the door behind the wheel!

I found a dealer that sells them in Australia for $260 www.racerecall.com They also have the flash looking Viosport POV.1 Theyve got some links to videos taken as well.

Edited by martyboy26
whats so special about the actual camera?

it's really small and light, wireless and waterproof and picks up great audio. It's the only one I've seen that's been made specially for motor sport.

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