Camcorders

adrian-L · 13 Apr 2006, 12:45 (Ref:1580364)

Hi, don't know if i'm in the right place, Its my first grand prix this year at silverstone, someone told me you can't take camcorders to the race. is this true?

Skam85 · 13 Apr 2006, 12:50 (Ref:1580367)

I would presume not. Still cameras are allowed, but I don't think video cameras are.

Matski · 13 Apr 2006, 12:54 (Ref:1580373)

I've taken my camcorder to silverstone for F1 testing and BTCC before

Suze · 13 Apr 2006, 12:57 (Ref:1580375)

Each place has different rules - for example, the MSV ones, if you read them properly, are a little funny. Although still clear, I know many who disagree. It may be worth checking with Silverstone / the organising body or checking the small print.

Knowlesy · 13 Apr 2006, 15:22 (Ref:1580467)

The guy I went to Silverstone with last year took a camcorder....and he was searched at the gate as well, due to the London bombings....

It struck me as odd, as I always assumed you couldn't record your own stuff, but there you go. Maybe it is allowed?

maximus · 13 Apr 2006, 16:34 (Ref:1580516)

I think you can make a recording, so long as it isn't used for public display or for profit. I saw many people with camcorders at Silverstone last year.

Knowlesy · 13 Apr 2006, 16:58 (Ref:1580527)

That would make sense....

Silk Cut Jaguar · 13 Apr 2006, 19:01 (Ref:1580630)

Technically it's not allowed but you'll only get a tap on your shoulder if you start pulling out profesional cameras and sound recording equipment. They're not overly concerned with people just recording for a bit of fun.

marcus · 13 Apr 2006, 22:59 (Ref:1580850)

I had no problems at the melbourne GP , but maybe its different at Silvetsone , but surely pure amatuer footage is fine compared to taking a full production unit

mooneyda · 14 Apr 2006, 20:20 (Ref:1582459)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silk Cut Jaguar

Technically it's not allowed but you'll only get a tap on your shoulder if you start pulling out profesional cameras and sound recording equipment.

This is exactly the situation!
Common sense prevail's here which is the best way to handle this situation!

It makes sense for camcorders and recording not been allowed in the case where an incident can occur somewhere on track, been missed by the TV companies (paying huge prices to record and transmit the event), and been distributed for profits..
This is the business reason for it been banned!

However, stance taken by most courses is good. The common sense course that is..!

Stone Man · 14 Apr 2006, 20:46 (Ref:1582482)

Commercial rights (Profits...money) drive these "rules"
Nobody will squeal unless you try to sell your footage....

marzF1rocks · 15 Apr 2006, 20:23 (Ref:1583051)

i would say not, u usual get serched for carring anything of that large nature..
Plus you wouldn't capture all that much on a video camera as the speed of the car is far faster than a digital camera speed...

Your best bet is to either take a digital camera or if u have a mobile phone that has a video capture on it....

Suze · 16 Apr 2006, 11:55 (Ref:1584931)

A mobile phone would not be good enough for a moving car...even with zoom my guess is the pic of the car wouldn't be large enough.

Knowlesy · 16 Apr 2006, 12:51 (Ref:1584984)

I got a great pic of Nick heidfeld at the exit of Abbey on my mobile a couple of years back.

But it was a fluke......camera phones are fundamentally useless.....

Suze · 16 Apr 2006, 12:59 (Ref:1584989)

I thought I'd been proved wrong there for a second!

Matski · 17 Apr 2006, 21:34 (Ref:1587129)

i probably won't be able to post this.. or i'll get more warning points..

put i did this with my little £300 sony camcorder at a testing session, quality was okay but keeping up with the cars at speed is tricky!

http://www.formulajuan.net/images/JPM.mpg

Flat12-Aircool · 18 Apr 2006, 22:13 (Ref:1588060)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matski

i probably won't be able to post this.. or i'll get more warning points..

put i did this with my little £300 sony camcorder at a testing session, quality was okay but keeping up with the cars at speed is tricky!

http://www.formulajuan.net/images/JPM.mpg

Don't download this file, I can't view it but even more disturbingly every time I click on the icon my computer freezes up and so I can't delete the thing now.

Update: Solution was to empty the folder of all files except this one, and then delete the whole folder.

Matski · 19 Apr 2006, 09:16 (Ref:1588435)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flat12-Aircool

Don't download this file, I can't view it but even more disturbingly every time I click on the icon my computer freezes up and so I can't delete the thing now.

Update: Solution was to empty the folder of all files except this one, and then delete the whole folder.

Well I can assure you that the only dodgy thing about this file is the camera work. It should be JPM overtaking Luca Badoer at Luffield (silverstone) in the wet. its about 4mb and lasts about 15 seconds.

Hmm, not sure whats happened there. I can't explain why you can't delete it, but it should play fine. Maybe you don't have up-to-date codecs for playing back mpg's. It was originally an AVI (from my camcorder) I used winavi to convert it. I've just re-downloaded it and deleted it fine.

JeremySmith · 20 Apr 2006, 12:48 (Ref:1589682)

QuickTime would not open this file..

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