Driving videos

[GENIUS LOCI]

Between 3.5 tons and 12 tons speed limit on highways is 100 km/h
Over 12 tons is 80 km/h

[gladisimo]

I'm wondering how you guys mount your cameras... do you just ghetto tape it?

[FREKI]

Originally Posted by gladisimo

I'm wondering how you guys mount your cameras... do you just ghetto tape it?

I use some wide clear tape - it's doesn't really stick to the dashboard, but after 5min of putting tape everywhere it usually works okay as long as I don't turn or accelerate too fast ( have had some mishaps ) - somekind of mount would be nice, but I have no idea how it should work without gueing or something and I don't feel like doing that ( same reason i don't use ducttape )

[gladisimo]

lol, i c, I might make a video that way. I have some 3M double sided adhesive. At first I thought you guys stuck little mounting pads for the tripod screwhole.

I'll try using some packing tape and see how that works out...

did u use a picture cam, or a vid cam?

[ChrisZwolle]

I use velcro. Works pretty well, only if I break fast, the camera can lean somewhat down.

I use my digital camera for video's. As long as they're not larger shown than youtube format, it doesn't really matter. However, the vids have a higher quality on my PC than they have in HQ on youtube.

[gladisimo]

Well I want a nonpermanent method. I assume with velcro you stick one of the pads on your camera, and another on the car?

I've had terrible experiences trying to remove the leftover adhesive after you remove permanent solutions. (I use WD-40, but it smears the stuff all over the place)

[FREKI]

Originally Posted by gladisimo

lol, i c, I might make a video that way. I have some 3M double sided adhesive. At first I thought you guys stuck little mounting pads for the tripod screwhole.

I'll try using some packing tape and see how that works out...

Good luck mate!

Originally Posted by gladisimo

did u use a picture cam, or a vid cam?

I use a video camera - I've had too much focus issue and memory problems with digital cameras and movement/glass surfaces..

I just let it film and drive aroud for around an hour and then edit into one or two 8-10min films with a little text.. ( YouTube's limit is 10min )

I'll advice you to upload a fairly high res video as it gives you the much better looking "watch in high quality" option on the site!

Originally Posted by GENIUS LOCI

Between 3.5 tons and 12 tons speed limit on highways is 100 km/h
Over 12 tons is 80 km/h

Oh okay - that's pretty good - I had a feeling it would be higher than here with all the overtalking..

What about for the cars - is there any "free speed" areas left in Italy?

[ChrisZwolle]

Originally Posted by gladisimo

Well I want a nonpermanent method. I assume with velcro you stick one of the pads on your camera, and another on the car?

Yes, you can eventually remove it quite easy. I have one strip of velcro above my speedometer on the dashboard (otherwise i'd be filming my wiperblades), and a small strip of velcro on my digital camera. I also wanted a non-permanent solution. I tried cheap tape but that didn't worked as well on my dash.

[GENIUS LOCI]

Originally Posted by FREKI

What about for the cars - is there any "free speed" areas left in Italy?

I think "free speed" is only on German autobahn

In Italy max speed on highway is 130 km/h, on freeways 110 or in some cases 90 km/h

Anyway there is still too much people who overcome these limits on motorways even with a massive introductions of radars and new laws about driving license (with points: you start with 20 points and every infraction costs you some points; when you got 0 points they withdraw your licence - obviously they withdraw you it the same way without points calculation for infractions as drunk driving or overcome speed limits over 40 km/h)

Anyway I don't think in the video I posted there are too many cars over the speed limits as all along that stretch there are radars every few kilometers

[gladisimo]

Originally Posted by ChrisZwolle

Yes, you can eventually remove it quite easy. I have one strip of velcro above my speedometer on the dashboard (otherwise i'd be filming my wiperblades), and a small strip of velcro on my digital camera. I also wanted a non-permanent solution. I tried cheap tape but that didn't worked as well on my dash.

The problem I have is I have a little Canon badge on the bottom of my camera. I dunno how the sticker was placed on, and I'm afraid when I remove the velcro it'll mess it up... I suppose I can always cut it into smaller pieces, lol.

[spongeg]

i usually hold onto mine lol

but i do have a gorilla pod which wraps itself on the dashboard and stays put except for sudden stops

you can twist it around things and stretch it out etc

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[spongeg]

i don't have one but check these out - they would stick themselves to the dash! monsterpod

[Bahnsteig4]

Driving in Vienna (Pt 1, 3rd District)

From Gürtel via St.Marx interchange to A23 (Süd-Ost-Tangente) and on to A4 (Ostautobahn) via Prater interchange.

00:00 Departing at Schweizergarten
00:40 Crossing the tram tracks, leaving the Gürtel, Vienna's outer ring road.
00:45 Officially entering the motorway system.
01:12 Keep Left for Praha, Gänserndorf (A23, A22, B8); center lane: Budapest, Bratislava, St.Marx, Vienna Airport (A23, A4, B228), left lane: Graz, Linz, Favoriten (A23, A1, A2, A21, B16)
01:40 Merging into A23, albeit only for one minute.
01:58 Passing exit St.Marx
02:40 Leaving A23 for A4 at Prater interchange
03:05 Arriving on A4 (Ostautobahn)



PS: Turn down the volume...

[FREKI]

Nice one mate!

[Bahnsteig4]

More to come - uploading to YouTube takes aaaages...

[Bahnsteig4]

Driving in Vienna; Part 2, Gürtel throughfare road.

[Bahnsteig4]

00:08 Passing below the pedestrian brigde beween the shopping mall and the metro station
00:08-00.25 Driving along the main library
00:27-00:45 Passing Urban-Loritz-Platz, a major tramway hub
01:23-01:47 Crossing Europaplatz, passing Westbahnhof (on the right side)
01:48 Crossing Mariahilfer Straße
02:09 Passing the church of "Maria am Siege", one of Vienna's biggest brickstone buildings
02:27 Passing metro station "Gumpendorfer Straße" (on the left)
02:31 Crossing Gumpendorfer Straße
02:43 Passing below the bridge of metro line U6, designed by Otto Wagner, the great fin-de-siècle architect



A 4th part will follow tomorrow.

[LtBk]

Nice videos, but what's with crappy radio music?

[Bahnsteig4]

Like I said - turn down the volume. Sorry, though. It's my father's car.

[LtBk]

I hope most Austrians don't listen to that kind of music. Sorry for going OT.