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Clubroom => Foto Forum => Topic started by: Freakshow on September 01, 2010, 12:33:16 pm

Title: Early Helmet cam.
Post by: Freakshow on September 01, 2010, 12:33:16 pm

NOw i remember screwing and taping a video camera to my helmet 15 years ago, but these 8mm monsters from 1970 take the cake.

And i still complain today when my little lipstick cam doesnt focus properly on trail ride.   ;D ;D

There heads must have been stiff after the first lap  :D :D :D

(http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/xmailman/flat%20track%20San%20Jose%201970-71/s_7aba6tuuh057.jpg)

(http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/xmailman/flat%20track%20San%20Jose%201970-71/s_7aba6tuuh049.jpg)

Title: Re: Early Helmet cam.
Post by: cyclegod on September 01, 2010, 12:41:33 pm

Only a matter of time before a manufacturer offers an intergrated helmet with camera built in, those photo's certainly show that the thinking was beyond the technology of the time....

Title: Re: Early Helmet cam.
Post by: D project on September 01, 2010, 06:27:31 pm

They used a similar helmet cam to go around the track at the carlsbad USGP in the early 80s!

Title: Re: Early Helmet cam.
Post by: oldmxracer on September 02, 2010, 06:51:35 am

Quote from: D project on September 01, 2010, 06:27:31 pm

They used a similar helmet cam to go around the track at the carlsbad USGP in the early 80s!

They actually started that in the mid 70's. I think Tibblin had a brick taped to the opposite side to balance things out...

(http://www.carlsbadraceway.org/sitebuilder/images/1975_Hang_Ten_USGP_Rolf_Tibblin_Mark_Blackwell_Following-600x446.jpg)