Building a Sanyo Xacti helmet cam holder – case
Jos Vorkmans | 01/29/2010(post in english because of the frequent Xacti visitors)
So after my underwater experiments I decided to build a helmetcam case for the Sanyo Xacti VPC CA9 HD.
This is what I need for a helmetcam:
- need to be able to de)attach quickly you don’t use it all day
- review movies: you don’t want to come home with footage of sky/snow for a whole day. Possible with the Xacti
- Wide angle: otherwise you miss to much. I bought a wide angle converter that magnetically attaches to a stick-on metal ring
- rotating: I have a habit of tucking my head in when I go faster: so if the camera would stay horizontal that would be perfect
So this is what I came up with: navigate to the gallery below to see the building process
I actually did a test run with it..in dreadful conditions: mines 4 celsius on top of the mountain, snow changing in rain. Conclusion: works fine, but needed to minimize the shaking in the hinge (a small plate of alu in there) .
Problem: after that the camera stopped working. It was under guarantee and the Sanyo people repaired it in 10 days time. The flex cable between screen and camera was kaput. Camera works fine now, but because I needed another cam to go on my board trip, I gat a GoPro Hero HD version tot test out. Results of that one where amazing!









