Noble - whats one sound like then???

[joust]

Seeing as a few threads have asked what a noble sounds like - here's me going up through 3 gears in mine on a NSL road outside Warlingham

230Kbps (Broadband)
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Noble%20-%203%20gears%20high.WMV

100Kbps (Dual ISDN or similar)
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Noble%20-%203%20gears%20medium.WMV

I'll capture some more off the DV cam and put it up later.

Joust

>>> Edited by joust on Wednesday 2nd October 17:30

[joust]

Yep - it's the dump valves on the twin turbos

Here a longer drive along the same road from the other direction with a fine overtaking move in 3rd gear at around 45mph!

mungo - go find an Internet cafe that has sound!

Broadband
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Country%20Lane%20Drive%20-%20High.WMV

ISDN
www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Country%20Lane%20Drive%20-%20Medium.WMV

[joust]

quote:
They are on the owners club site at:
[snip]

Has your ISP got rate limiting on that account - I'm sitting on 1Gbps connection here and getting 4kbps!!!

If you want I can put it on some "proper" webspace that you can mirror to - allow people with BB to play direct rather than having to save it.

As it's your copyright didn't want to put it up without asking.

J

[joust]

Unfortunatly I'm not getting the whole lot down - the download is timing out. However, I've just got our techies to re-route the site via our other STM-1 to the US and going to have another go.....

The things I do for people - I don't know

Edited to remove a rude word.....

J

>> Edited by joust on Thursday 3rd October 23:32

[joust]

OK - now I can't even talk to it.

I'll try and sort out some FTP space for actech tomorrow so he can upload it to and then I'll mirror it from there - keep on hanging people!

J

[joust]

quote:
More serious question now.
Joust - how did you get the camera so steady? I notice that there is a degree of up-and-down movement, but virtually no shake, roll or lateral movement.
Either you have an extremely steady-handed cameraperson or you have some technology at work there. Which is it?

Ugh - got found out.

It's called a B&S Spcalist Car Mount. I imported some of them some years ago from a small manufactuer from somewhere in Australia I think (or was it Canada - can't quite remember).

It comes in 3 parts.

The first part is just like a normal camera mount, in that it's black plastic and you screw it into the bottom of your camera. The really clever bit is that it has a springy other metal bit that is meant to provide "lateral stability and increased shock absorbing" (don't ask me - just reading from the manual....)

That plugs into a very very high technology mount - basically it's got a big bit of "special" plastic that the mount above clicks into. Then - get this - here's the really clever bit - it's got these sort of high tech (titanium or something - looks too shiny and expensive to be just plain old Alu....) things that you open up a lever and then pull on them and they extend outwards. This means that you can make these things (some people might call them legs) long enough so that the "legs" touch the floor of the car.

Then comes the final bit - mounting it to the car. The manual isn't much use - but they did provide a very special "squishy" thing that you can use in many many configurations.

So - I locked the camera in, attached it to the clever bit, put it behind the passenger seat (just to the left - about half past 11 if you are looking at a clock sitting in the passenger seat with 12 facing directly backwards), extended the special titanium thingys until the reached the bottom (come to think of it - they really do look like legs) and then used the "squishy thing" to wedge it into place.

Donno why but the other 'alf was right upset at me when I got back - something about nicking a "tripod" (I thought that was a TV series from the 80's) and the CD case.

Sush - some people!

[Oh - and the camera is a Sony PC-110 with an excellent "steady shot" mode]

J

[joust]

Speedmounts - special mounts - I don't know - you lot gullable today???

ITS A BY STANDARD TRIPOD WEDGED IN BEHIND THE SEAT WITH THE 32 CD HOLDER CASE!!!





LOL!


>> Edited by joust on Friday 4th October 11:17

[joust]

Really - I would have thought the "Donno why but the other 'alf was right upset at me when I got back - something about nicking a "tripod" (I thought that was a TV series from the 80's) and the CD case. " would have given it away......

J

[joust]

"Noble Track Day" is now mirrored at

www.lotus-elise.org.uk/m12/Noble%20Track%20Day.mpg

If you have a fast enough connection it will stream it to you in real time.

J