I use my cameras for taking a lot of in-car footage using a very stable windscreen suction mount and all my previous Mini-DV camcorders never used to shake at ALL but for some reason the footage from my Canon HF200 does - a lot!

When the camera is fixed to the mount it does not move, so why does the image shake so much?!

Image Stabilisation is on so does anyone think my HF200 is faulty?

Here is a video to show you what the issue is: clicky

Did you try with image stabilization off?

Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) is normally designed for hand held shots and does not work well with mechanical vibration. Not sure if you have OIS. But I see some fast vibrations, like at 8 seconds, and seems to in oscillations. If turning OIS off does not work I would reseat or move the camera mount slightly, to see iff that helps.



Rich

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I don't think it's faulty, but as poncho said the IS isn't suppose to work with mechanical shaking.

My advice is to try another kind of mount, because the shaking is going to happen even with a good pressure on the windscreen. Maybe if you could get it fixed to your helmet the vibration would be negligible.

Best,

AleX

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This particular condition is very difficult to handle. Vibration from a race car (stiff suspension, high speed, heavy vibration and noise) causes precisely the type of vibration that no built-in image stabilisation solution (neither optical, nor digital) can properly handle.

Having it held by a human, in hand (or perhaps on shoulder/helmet mount) would eliminate the problematic vibrations and introduce the kind that could be handled by OIS much more easily.

There is nothing wrong with your camcorder; you have just given it too much of a challenge.

I really am disappointed that this happens - I know of several people with much cheaper camcorders and their HD quality is superb with their incar footage.

I have tried without the image stabiliser and the shaking is even worse!