The Guncam Project

[savage1r]

I've been working on a prototype that will allow anyone with any type of camera to attach to any orientation of picatinny rail. This is some footage I took of it attached to my SKS last week. As the design progresses, I will post more videos under this thread. Any suggestions and comments are welcome.
VIDEO 1
You can also see footage from a sub2000 equipped with 2 guncam's here:
VIDEO 2
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[savage1r]

I had to do some digging around, but I found some of that footage I shot with the old crappy cam, you can't see the barrel because of the size difference of the camera, but you can see what it looks like when you have night vision on and you're "clearing your house".

VIDEO

 

[zhyla]

I don't really understand the use case for this. Can you explain?

 

[brian923]

I like the idea. It would be cool forhunting, wingshooting and such. Are you going to be selling any prototypes? I would be very interested. Brian.

 

[TwoWheelFiend]

Thats pretty cool man. Made me miss my SKS. Are you doing that with a gopro? Good quality!

 

[WNTFW]

It would be good in a few ways if the camera would not "flinch". IE; the camera would film 100% of the time when gun is firing.
Some truly practical uses:
1 focused on shooter to spot flinch, lifting of head etc.
2 focused on trigger to see pull and reset.
3 focused on another part so show a manipulation in actual use.

 

[benzy2]

The contour line of cameras come with an optional picatinny mount as well as waterproof mounts and a bunch of others. Films in 1080 or 720 as well as 30 and 60 fps options. Gopro cameras have similar features and there is an aftermarket picatinny mount available for it as well. More is better but there are two high quality options available now with wide distribution.

 

[pikid89]

I've gotten some sweet shooting vids from using a gopro mounted on the barrel

 

[Saakee]

A friend of mine just asked me for a suggestion for airsoft war/camera shooting. I suggested a Contour camera for aiming at the enemy and a KAC iphone mount for his herocam if they ever come to market (or just a second contour camera as the hero cam).

 

[savage1r]

Go pros and contours can't zoom, don't have night vision, have limited battery, storage and no image stabilization. Those are pretty bad limitations. This is the alpha prototype, working on the beta this week. Looking for a local fab shop to start production.

 

[benzy2]

Good luck. Any night vision worth using will put this into 4 digits which is more than I'm looking for a gun mounted camera. The battery issue seems over blown and I'm not sure how you plan to get around the data storage issue as any quality feed takes lots of memory and quality memory is expensive. Id like to see what you have but it sounds like it will end up with unusable features (gen I night vision) or be really expensive ( gen II or better night vision). Let us know when things move forward though.

 

[savage1r]

If you look at my second post with video you will see night vision footage from my 12+ year old hi-8 camcorder you could probably get from a pawn shop for $40 or less. I'm pretty sure the mount will go for under $50. $90 for a night vision weapon mounted camera system isn't bad. Most modern cameras come with internal hard drives or take 32-64gb or more SD cards which will last for 4+ hours at 1080p, full bitrate. Decent batteries will last up to 8 hours, which can be good for long walks.

 

[baronthered]

I have a tachyon xc micro helmet camera. They have a mount the camera slips into that goes right on a picatinny rail. no muss no fuss. The camera is real good too. I have some youtube videos up of me and a buddy riding our quads last year. It was a dreary day for the most part and the sun doesn't reach the bottom of some of those hollows until July most of the time. Another thing is the camera won't "blink" when you are shooting.