Mini POV camera captures groundbreaking onboard footage of off-road racing in extreme desert environments

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Off-road racing team Terrible Herbst Motorsports has been using the Marshall CV574 POV camera to capture incredible onboard footage of its trophy trucks

Terrible Herbst Motorsports off-road truck racing in the desert
The Marshall CV574 is just 95mm in length and features an interchangeable-lens system (Image credit: Terrible Herbst Motorsports)

Historic off-road racing team Terrible Herbst Motorsports has been combining the Marshall Electronics CV574 Miniature 4K UHD POV camera and the Starlink satellite network to livestream crisp onboard footage from some of the world’s most challenging desert environments.

That’s according to AV Magazine, which sat down with the off-road racing team’s director of media and aerial production, Bryan Moore, who said:

“The Marshall cameras, with their built-in encoders and wide-angle 4K lenses, allow for high-definition streaming without the need for additional hardware, making the system more efficient.”

It seems the internal encoder is the biggest draw for the team, which Bryan said simplifies the setup. As you can imagine, cameras that run hot are not a good pairing for the extreme heat of a desert environment, and the team's director of media praised the CV574 for not overheating.

Marshall CV574 against a blue to purple gradient

(Image credit: Marshall Electronics / Digital Camera World)

And while I’ll admit to being much more familiar with road racing as opposed to off-road racing, I was extremely interested to hear that Terrible Herbst Motorsports’ usage of the CV574 in its trophy trucks has garnered the attention of perhaps the most famous off-road race in the world, the Dakar Rally.

As Bryan told AV Magazine: “We’ve already sold four more trucks based on the livestream feeds alone.”

The Marshall Electronics CV574 Miniature 4K UHD POV camera boasts some pretty neat specs. At its core is an 8.46MP 1/2.8-inch Sony sensor that can capture 4K 60p, H.264 and HEVC codecs, uses the interchangeable M12 lens mounting system, and is supplied with a 4mm (85-degree H.AOV) lens.

And that’s all from a camera that’s roughly 95mm x 53mm x 55mm in size (not including the lens) and weighs just 0.7lb.

For more information on the racing team and to see these trucks in action, head over to the Terrible Herbst Motorsports webpage.

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Mike is Digital Camera World's How To Editor. He has over a decade of experience, writing for some of the biggest specialist publications including Digital Camera, Digital Photographer and PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine. Prior to DCW, Mike was Deputy Editor of N-Photo: The Nikon Magazine and Production Editor at Wex Photo Video, where he sharpened his skills in both the stills and videography spheres. While he's an avid motorsport photographer, his skills extend to every genre of photography – making him one of Digital Camera World's top tutors for techniques on cameras, lenses, tripods, filters and other imaging equipment – as well as sharing his expertise on shooting everything from portraits and landscapes to abstracts and architecture to wildlife and, yes, fast things going around race tracks...

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