I bought a Seben mount and a Casio EXILIM EX-ZR100 camera
Bought the camera last night off of a Ebay auction and the mount last week. It is one of the Casio series of cameras that can capture slow motion.
I am hoping to capture the .9 second flight of the 257 108 grain bullet from muzzle to the 285 yard steel target in slow motion.
I hope to have it together by mid month, but I may have to wait for sunny conditions from what I have read.
I have no desire to start of blog like the excelent one Tofazfou created, not sure I even want to do Utube stuff, but I have some things I want to do for my own education of bullet flight, such as, shoot those heavy bullets with two different twist 257 TJ barrels and be able to capture the moment of stability decay from the 1-14 twist.
Contrary to current beliefs, I do get out often. 😛
Regards,
Roachcreek
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They are not very sturdy, at least the way I have mine set up. And perhaps if it was to be a dedicated camera set up, you would want to set the scope forward to the point it would be unusable without the camera. But my tactical mind just can’t allow me to do that.
Worse case, I can always sell it and loose a few bucks, considering the fortune I have lost in another experience with german engineering with the Audi Allroad, this is but a droop in the bucket..
Oddly enough my first shot was within 2 inches of POI at 212 yards, that did surprise me.
The cameras I tried on it yesterday were absoulutely not friendly to the set up, I will see if the Casio will be any better when it gets here.
Maybe in the end I will take pictures of the Drozd chewing up garden slugs thru the Millet red dot, should work well for that.
RC
I bought a Seben mount a while back and although it was neat, I didn’t have much luck with it. Definitely not the results Ted had with his. I ended up selling mine because I found it to be a pain in the ass and I ended up missing more shots trying to get things lined up. 😕
I feel responsible for this as I did plant the seed in another post. So I will pray for your success in this endeavor. It shall be interesting to see!
I checked a post that Ted in Madison did a couple of years ago when he got his working, I am doing a lot of things wrong.
First I have the mount upside down, easy to do since the camera has to actually be upside down according to Teds picture.
And I do not have a macro on the camera I am using, it has to have a macro to foucus on the crosshair, if it does not, the camera focuses on the target and is blurry.
And it all makes sence, the camera was making the mount sag down, with it upside down, it sags into the filed of view.
As far as maco, I guess I will have to wait until I get the Casio and do it right.
Patience.
RC
It is difficult. The weather is not helping either, so I am trying to do it out the window.
RC
The videos I just post in the general was with the seven mount and a new cheap jvc HD video camera. I hope is does what you want it to. It was a little hard for me to get every thing where it worked. Took a little messing around. But that is half the fun!
It’s been 24 hours. Any videos yet? 😆 It took me a couple of weeks practice. Just focusing on the reticle is a trick.
Tofazfou,
I have tired to hold my Sony Digital in the eyepiece on my Leupold several times and get it all lined up with the disc, showing the Holland reticle to no avail.
Hopefully I will be more sucessful with this one using the Seben mount.
Hoot,
Gee Whiz, that was a pissy thing to say. 😛
RC
RC,
Wish i could be there to help you. Even TED said that the first time he got the camera and mount, it took some doing to get it just right.
WHich im sure is not too hard. The only thing that really concerns me is the recoil of your gun vs the small bore stuff. Sure it will be okay though. It’s gonna be interesting for sure.
I will try and help as much as i can
RC
The only “Whiz” you were ever good at was pissing on a tree!
Hoot
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ptptptptptptptptptpt Only Hoot can come up with that one 😀 😀 😀
RC
The only “Whiz” you were ever good at was pissing on a tree!
Hoot
I can see the bullet from about 150 to 175 yards out thru my scope, not being a camera or computer whiz will make it challanging.
RC
If you are filming through the scope and can see the bullet, no problem. You will probably be restricted by the distance your scope is focused though. Not sure if capturing the bullet along its entire flight, in focus, can be done?
You could film at different distances and see about where stabilty breaks down but your groups dont look like thats a problem yet. 😉
Charlie, is the focal length of your camera up to capturing a slug in flight at a distance of 3′ X 285 yards (200,034 feet!) which is almost three football fields in length?
Is this possible?
As a mathematician, statistician, and Albert Einstein Fellow of Advanced Mathmatics…I have concerns regarding the physics of your endeaver.
Kindest regards,
Unkle Huut…..Nucle thoo….err, Onkle Hout
whatever…you know who I am….getting old is a btich…..
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RC, thanks for taking the plunge with this. I’m sure a lot of us are really looking forward to seeing a good set up work well for you. I’d love to see some Ted style footage of your .257 shooting long distance, we’re probably all gonna learn a lot. Those bullets are going to show up really well on the high speed through that Casio.