Internal car mounting for heavier cameras

Internal car mounting for heavier cameras

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Mandarin VX

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2,344 posts

176 months

Tuesday 31st December 2019
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I need to mount a slightly heavy camera (A Sony A7iii + Tamron 28-70) in a car to film the driver.

I've got a twin suction-cup car mount but it just can't quite take the weight, whats available to do this?
I've seen a few options but I'm told that a lot of vibration can be passed to the camera when mounting to glass.

Edited by Mandarin VX on Tuesday 31st December 11:16

Malcolm Feth

70 posts

142 months

Tuesday 31st December 2019
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I used two Manfrotto avenger suction cups, with an aluminium connector between and camera (canon 5d mk3) attached to it.
For internal use should be more than enough, to be honest.

Mandarin VX

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2,344 posts

176 months

Tuesday 31st December 2019
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Malcolm Feth said:
I used two Manfrotto avenger suction cups, with an aluminium connector between and camera (canon 5d mk3) attached to it.
For internal use should be more than enough, to be honest.
Interesting, do you have a photo of the setup by any chance? is vibration an issue?

Malcolm Feth

70 posts

142 months

Tuesday 31st December 2019
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Sorry but I don't. I had a video somewhere recorded in a Lotus Exige and it was fine in terms of vibrations.
It was a while ago and I haven't done it again since then.

Honestly, it wasn't my first choice, but I use suction cups for rig photography (when you have a massive 4.5 pole hanging and you take picture of a moving car). If it was enough to hang my camera on something like that, it must be enough to put two of those suckers on a glass inside to hold my camera smile