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Step 6Go For a Ride & Take Pictures
Your camera is all ready to go. Get on your bicycle and go for a ride and test out your camera at the same time. You should be able to reach up and press the button to take the picture without even slowing down. It's great if you're riding with people that don't necessarily want to constantly stop to take pictures, and you don't need to hold your camera while riding either.
The pictures you see on this step are all pictures that I have taken while using this bicycle camera tripod.
Using a video camera with this setup is just as simple as using a still camera. As long as the video camera has a place to screw onto the tripod, it should work. My video camera was at least double the weight as my still camera and I had no problems with keeping the heavier camera secure. The only problem with video was that the camera would pick up all of the vibrations from the bike and turning the handlebars a little showed up a whole lot in the video. But regardless, it's better than holding the camera and riding the bike at the same time. This is a video filmed with the bike tripod of me riding a bike over a suspension bridge that crosses the interstate and connects two different trails.
Something that I noticed while using this bicycle tripod was peoples reactions to seeing a camera sitting there on a bicycle's handlebars. People normally ignore you while you're riding a bike. Maybe a few people will nod or smile at you, but that's normally the full extent of the interactions between the people using the trail where I tested this out. When I had the camera out, the amount of interaction at least doubled, if not tripled. It was very strange. Maybe people just want to get on camera.
Remember to wear a helmet and don't get in an accident!
The pictures you see on this step are all pictures that I have taken while using this bicycle camera tripod.
Using a video camera with this setup is just as simple as using a still camera. As long as the video camera has a place to screw onto the tripod, it should work. My video camera was at least double the weight as my still camera and I had no problems with keeping the heavier camera secure. The only problem with video was that the camera would pick up all of the vibrations from the bike and turning the handlebars a little showed up a whole lot in the video. But regardless, it's better than holding the camera and riding the bike at the same time. This is a video filmed with the bike tripod of me riding a bike over a suspension bridge that crosses the interstate and connects two different trails.
Something that I noticed while using this bicycle tripod was peoples reactions to seeing a camera sitting there on a bicycle's handlebars. People normally ignore you while you're riding a bike. Maybe a few people will nod or smile at you, but that's normally the full extent of the interactions between the people using the trail where I tested this out. When I had the camera out, the amount of interaction at least doubled, if not tripled. It was very strange. Maybe people just want to get on camera.
Remember to wear a helmet and don't get in an accident!
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Notes: the video is a bit zoomed in so that the black fram is not that annoying, and the source video was 320*200 px, not the HQ version.