Camera testing
Seventeen days to go, and a 360 camera that needs to earn its place before we ask it to work in a 1953 car for six days.
Seventeen days.
Part of what we promised the Register when we asked to borrow TS2 was that the story would travel further than the event — social media, short films, and a proper write-up afterwards. That is easy to put in a media plan and considerably harder to do at the end of a 400-mile day.
So: camera testing. The plan is the same rig we have used before, a remote 360 camera that lets a driver and passenger film themselves without either of them doing anything more dangerous than talking. Point it, forget it, pick the framing afterwards.
TS2 makes it more interesting than usual. No convenient power. Nowhere obvious to mount anything that is both secure and not touching a car that isn’t ours. And an open cockpit, which is wonderful for footage and merciless for audio — at anything above about forty, wind is the only thing the microphone can hear.
Better to find all that out on a Friday afternoon in Dorset than on an Alpine pass.