This is interesting. I've always used the roll bar mount and hooked it on my mirror (just under the mirror) and have pretty much the same view for a fraction of the cost.

 

You mean the same view as in post #10 by AngryRedBird?
There's a basic difference. In your videos, because the camera is fixed relative to your Jeep, the Jeep stays still and the trail is swaying.
Notice that in his video the trail stays horizontal and the Jeep is swaying.

 

Here is what I do

 

That is really weird. Gimmicky, in fact, at least to me.

Serious question: Do all of you really consider this a better viewing experience? POV would have the viewer bouncing around. LOL: If you don't enjoy that, maybe you should stick to paved roads and malls.

 

This is about perception.
When we offroad, we do not perceive the Jeep as static, and the trail ahead as bouncing and swaying. We perceive the trail as static and the Jeep and ourselves as swaying. That's, after all, what really happens, both physically and in perception, and that's exactly the case in that video, because the camera is stabilized relatively to the trail. (Except for left/right, of course.)

We're just too USED to videos in which it is the other way around - the trail is bouncing and swaying, which doesn't look like what we experience in real life.
(I am not saying that these are bad videos. We - and I - have been enjoying them very much.)

Gimbals, electric motors stabilizing or true Gyros, are commonly used for both stabilizing the image and for making it look real life-like.

 

 

I mount mine to my Grabars. Very secure and protected from mud and any pitting/scratching of the housing. As long as you don't have bugs on the windshield, you cannot tell that the camera is inside the vehicle.

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Guys I added this simple addition to my daystar dash panel.



I mounted, using screws, my iPhone cradle on the left and my GPS on the right. I'll get a picture tomorrow if anyone wants. It also left me enough room to put a pocket knife and small flashlight up there on their belt clips. I've captured some pretty good video and photos from this position.

 

I got some video this weekend and will clip it down and post it up.

 

This vid is a prime example of what GJeep is saying.

http://youtu.be/VjK-asaqDMU