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  • fiat22turbo

    March 11, 2009 3:11 p.m. fiat22turbo SuperDork

    Jason wrote:

    The camera is a sealed one-piece unit from Oregon Scientific that cost me $100 at REI. Yes, it's a narrow angle lens, but the video quality is great. To get any sort of sensation of speed with a narrow angle, you have to cock it to a side.

    Fix it: http://hackaday.com/2008/06/30/wide-angle-lens-for-the-atc2k-video-camera/

    http://www.utahtrikes.com/ARTICLE-31.html

    If you have the newer model, the ATC3K it has a better lens already, but you could still add a fisheye lens to it, I believe. SunPro makes some easily adaptable lenses, I found one that fit my cheap Target camera.

    I fixed mine in a similar way and the results aren't bad:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/swedeis

    Finally, your car is all sorts of awesome. Maybe when you re-shell it, you'll find a wagon instead? I loved the BTCC wagons, a Rally wagon of your series would be pretty cool.

  • Jason

    March 11, 2009 6:20 p.m. Jason New Reader

    fiat22turbo wrote: Fix it: http://hackaday.com/2008/06/30/wide-angle-lens-for-the-atc2k-video-camera/

    http://www.utahtrikes.com/ARTICLE-31.html

    Finally, your car is all sorts of awesome. Maybe when you re-shell it, you'll find a wagon instead? I loved the BTCC wagons, a Rally wagon of your series would be pretty cool.

    Thanks for the links! I'm going to check this out. I have a fisheye Swann lens, hopefully it will adapt.

    The car isn't mine, it's John Lane's. You know what they say about codriving: all the spills without the bills.

    Anywho, my girlfriend just turned all her footage from the weekend into a rally video!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eLQVMA4sY8

    Yay!

  • ignorant

    March 11, 2009 6:34 p.m. ignorant SuperDork

    really nice video. Theres a good breadth and depth of rally participants out in the west. I am jealous. Reminds me of when I crewed Maine in 2003.

  • Carson

    March 11, 2009 7:26 p.m. Carson HalfDork

    Awesome video! And I'm glad everyone is ok! I have yet to go to a RallyAmerica event, just a bunch of southeast NASA Rallysport/USRC stuff.

    My wife grew up in Aberdeen...Scotland. Seems like the weather is the same in Aberdeen, Washington as it is in Scotland, haha.

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