Hello All,

I have just bought a Go Pro Hero 5 Black for my C-182 in preparation for some summer flying and an ID trip. I haven't even got the camera in the mail but I am starting to think of mounting options. Does anyone have creative mounting options for both interior and exterior mounting?

Kyle

mainewoodsstol wrote:Hello All,

I have just bought a Go Pro Hero 5 Black for my C-182 in preparation for some summer flying and an ID trip. I haven't even got the camera in the mail but I am starting to think of mounting options. Does anyone have creative mounting options for both interior and exterior mounting?

Kyle

Cloud base Engineering’s strut mount. Marc Webster is a member here. I love it on my Maule and have never had a fear of it coming loose.

BradleyP wrote:
Cloud base Engineering’s strut mount. Marc Webster is a member here. I love it on my Maule and have never had a fear of it coming loose.

I think there's a few players in the game now, but Marc sent me a few units a couple years ago and they are really well made, stout. The ball head gives you lots of flexibility with aiming the camera and it tightens down very positively.

As for vibration, I got a little at certain RPM coming through the strut. It's isolated via some rubber roundstock whcih works well but can't isolate all vibes.

It's what we used in the last movie on the SQ-12.

Highly recommended. Tell Marc we sent you.

I just picked mine up from mypilotpro.com. I am really impressed with them and the owner was great to talk to and very helpful. that being said I do not have any experience with any other mounts. Very easy to set up and seem really well built.

roamer

I’m using the Flight Flix tie down mount on my Maule. So far it works well, sturdy unit and easy to mount/dismount and adjust.

https://flightflix.net

In terms of mounting ideas, there is a saying in the movie making community: "Find a director you like, imitate them and how you fuck it up becomes your style".

I think that applies here, even if it's unlikely any of us have an Oscar as even a stretch goal.

For me, the video producer I'm cribbing ideas from lately is Trent Palmer: https://www.youtube.com/user/boredentertainment88

Two things to note:

1) His videos are about the content. Not the camera position. The best cinematography in the world will have a hard time making a two hour flight from concrete runway A to concrete runway B, over the flatlands of the midwest, interesting. Any even marginally shot video will be enough to carry the day if the adventure itself was compelling. As an example, I did a very long video last summer about my trip to Idaho. I thought it was an ok video but there were a lot of things I would change if certain logistical considerations hadn't imposed themselves on me, preventing me from getting all the raw content I wanted. But it's my third most popular video with 30K views because the story was interesting enough to overcome the technical faults.

2) Trent does a lot of shooting from the ground or air to air. This is visual candy compared to the overdone "gopro on a wing", "gopro on a belly", "gopro in the cabin" shots that dominate.

FWIW: This is my channel. Subscribe and click the bell if you like it: https://www.youtube.com/user/rwellner98 ... subscriber

I'm planning to do more regular postings this summer, and you might even have a chance to win something in our scavenger hunt.

Oh, and back to your question about mounting. My three favorite mounting options:

1) The original gopro sticky pads. I've never found anything better. Mount them in places that you don't need to have multiple plastic joints to point the camera where you want it pointed. There are plenty of potential mounting places that these can't be used on, but I find myself building the shoot around where the sticky pads will work, rather than ceaselessly trying to find products that are more flexible but have never given me the solid, vibration free image that I demand. Use the white rubber dude to reduce vibration.

2) Gimbals. I have one for my phone, a handheld one for my gopro and a tripod mounted one for my gopro. Between them I find myself using these as an essential part of my kit these days. They are awesome.

3) Gaffer tape. Similar to duct tape, but with a backing that's engineered to not leave residue behind. Allows you to put a camera in tons of places that would be hard or impossible otherwise. My most recent favorite spot is on the strut of my horizontal stabilizer. It's too narrow a diameter for most solutions, but I can gaff tape a gopro to it easily (point the trailing edge of the tape away from the wind stream to prevent it from coming off). You can see an example of this at 4:50 in the video below. And, I guess, bonus tip 3.1: Don't be afraid to put these cameras in harms way. Sometimes those are the best shots and the cameras are cheap enough to treat as disposable. You can get used Hero4's for 100-150 and Hero5's for under 300. I have a Hero6, that I love, but still shoot two Hero3's, on almost every shoot, that I have been putting in harms way for nearly five years without yet paying the ultimate price.

I just want to add that I really like Zane's videos also.