Joa Harrison
January 31st, 2006, 12:28 PM
I want to mount my 100A inside a plexiglass box arrangement for shooting out a moving vehicle in dirty and/or wet conditions. Not crazy wet, just light spray and some dirt.
My biggest concern is getting a decent front lens/cover that protects the camera. Can I just use plexiglass or lexan or will this degrade the image quality terribly? Should I go with glass?
Also, I’m concerned about lens flare, not from the camera but from the front lens (on the box). Has anyone had experience with this and how did you deal with it? I’m sort of reluctant to make a shade since the vehicle will be traveling very fast (often over 100mph) and I want to keep the drag down and also don’t want to “funnel” stuff inside the shade.
Would I be better going with some sort of domed front lens? Is this needed?
I also really can’t just use a “bag” that they sell to keep rain off the camera since the camera is going to be mounted on shock cords in the box. Though maybe I could figure out a way to seal the shock cords or something (if they have to come through the bag), I’m open to suggestions.
Has anyone done something similar to this?
Thanks.
Joa
My biggest concern is getting a decent front lens/cover that protects the camera. Can I just use plexiglass or lexan or will this degrade the image quality terribly? Should I go with glass?
Also, I’m concerned about lens flare, not from the camera but from the front lens (on the box). Has anyone had experience with this and how did you deal with it? I’m sort of reluctant to make a shade since the vehicle will be traveling very fast (often over 100mph) and I want to keep the drag down and also don’t want to “funnel” stuff inside the shade.
Would I be better going with some sort of domed front lens? Is this needed?
I also really can’t just use a “bag” that they sell to keep rain off the camera since the camera is going to be mounted on shock cords in the box. Though maybe I could figure out a way to seal the shock cords or something (if they have to come through the bag), I’m open to suggestions.
Has anyone done something similar to this?
Thanks.
Joa