OK, figured I'd start this up again...

I'm working on revising my car mount for my WRX. Right now (or should I say as of last summer) it looked like this:




Now that "works" but I have to have the pass through open to use it, and it takes a while to get in/out of the car. You also are VERY cramped (in the back seat) in the car with it setup because it's legs go to the floor...

Anyway, thanks to Distorto, I'm going to HD tonight to buy some flat stock and see what I can do with something like this:






from:http://www.iwsti.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60066

Now I know whoever does that on IWSTI wants $65 for it, and he's nice enough to include a mount... But yeah, Mine uses a bolt that fits into my tripod head I already have... So I'm going to play around with this tonight and see what I can get working and if I can easily make it removable. I'm concerned that this version sits too far back in the back seat and won't see much more than the backs of the front seats, but I'll test it out and post some pictures when I can. I may also work in my current bars to make it go further forward towards the front seats, but then I run into the legroom issue again.

I'm also going to be trying my tripod in the backseat again, since I now have legs that open up to a ton of different angles making that a possibility again. When I originally did this my legs only opened to one set angle to it was near impossible to get them stable in the back seat.

Ben

That looks bouncy.

Originally Posted by emorphien

That looks bouncy.

my thoughts, exactly!!!

I'm going to try to design mine where it's pushed down onto the top of the seat back to provide additional support. If that doesn't work, it will go forward and use the legs from my old design. I just prefer this back mounting point because it means I don't have to use the pass through.

They claim it works, but I don't want it moving at all...

i am working on mine too. i am using 2 uprights and i will have the camera on a connecting crossbar.

Yeah, I should be working on mine on Friday night, and if it's not done then, on Saturday. I expect to be playing with it over the weekend.

I'll be sure to post pics of it and with it when I can.
I'll also be trying my new tripod to see if I can wedge it in there somehow.

yeah, so I lost part of my old setup. Thought it was in the shed and cleaned the whole thing out w/o finding it this weekend...

So I just used the tripod in the MINI

New here just noticed this. But I made a pretty kickass mount that works for the gc's- bugeye works great. I'll post up the pics sometime here soon. I liek the one posted on iwsti. But if you take the camera out looks like someone in the back seat would hit their head on the mount. I use a manfrotto mount with suction cupw/ pump on it works great.

OK, so where do you stick it to? Side window? Rear window?
is this the one you have:
http://www.stickypod.com/osc/product...products_id=28

I've thought of those but I always wondered if they'd hold a DLSR?
Do you have any pictures of yours setup?

did you ever put it outside of the car?