How do you aim your camera?

[mjr]

I suffer from the problem mentioned in Close pass this morning, worth reporting to their employer? and Tales from today's utility ride where sometimes my camera captures only sky and other times it captures only ground.

This is rather annoying and it seems cameras have become harder to aim as they've become smaller. Less surface area to see that it's vertical, I guess, plus no viewscreen to check what it's seeing.

How do you aim yours?

 

[Nocode]

I have a combined mount for my Garmin Edge and Garmin VIRB. Something like this:

(not my picture)

However, even though I've tightened all screws and turned the thumb screw between the VIRB mount and k-edge attachment it still ends-up pointing skywards during the ride even though I level it at the start. I'm not sure if it's the road 'buzz' or whether my cables push it up. Anyone got this issue and worked-out a fix that leaves the camera below the handlebars like that?

Wondering if I can replace the thumb screw with something or tie my cables back?

 

[mjr]

I'm not sure if it's the road 'buzz' or whether my cables push it up.

Is that an easy workshop check - turn the handlebars lots and see if it pushes the camera? It looks a surprisingly long mount (your camera's image stabilisation must be much better than mine!) so I would have expected it to sag, not rise.

 

[Nocode]

Yeah, fair point re: the workshop check. I'll have a play!

Re: rise vs sag, I guess it just depends on the weight/balance of the camera etc. Image stabilisation is just per the standard Garmin VIRB, but agreed it would probably be better if the stack was shorter.