The A6 Celica/Carina topic

[roman]

God damn, it's good to be at the point of a project where you can start doing some fun stuff again!

I took my Dad for a bit of a drive around yesterday, he's helped me out to no end on this project and so it was pretty cool to go for a drive and celebrate how far we've managed to come with it.

I've been trying to suss out what would be the best camera angle, which shutter speed and FPS works best, etc etc. for a trackday that I'm heading to in April.

My Decent microphone has run out of batteries so there's only some muffled doort noises from the onboard mono mic on my DSLR in this vid but just to get a bit of an idea:

And with a timer setup I took a few long(ish) exposure pics on the way back:




Who needs a supercharger whine, when you've got my diff? lol.
Looking forward to getting the exhaust remade so it's a little less raspy as well.

I will work on getting some better sound quality, I've got a few tricks up my sleeve! I think I might mount a mic in the engine bay near the airbox, and have the right channel recording off the DSLR mic and the left channel from the engine bay. Or something like that, will have a bit of a muck around and see what works well.

Generally speaking I think the most enjoyable in car videos are ones where you can see what the driver is up to, as well as being useful feedback for how you were doing things wrong later on.

So might rejig the angles a bit so there's less roof and more gear shifter etc.

I've got a pretty grunty spare tripod so I might get all 'Misery' on it and give it some different feet that wont move.
So it mounts in the car nice and sturdily without any worry that I'm going to cop a DSLR in the face at 180kph if (when...) I spin out.