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jindoguy(at)gmail.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: Thoughts on cameras

Dave, I've mounted cameras on aircraft as varied as a Kasperwing ultralight

and a super LongEZ and my one suggestion would be to get a camera with a

remote. Digital still cameras typically don't have them, but digital video

usually do. It saves fussing with the camera and possibly moving it off the

shot you have it set for. The other suggestion is to make sure the camera

has a provision for a remote microphone. You can get fittings and cords at

Rat Shack to hook the camera into your intercom. I can send you pictures of

the LongEZ mount if you'd like. I built it one evening in the hangar while

Wayne (the LongEZ's owner) was clearing things off the to-do list. Nothing

fancy, just a piece of angle, three turnbuckles, three Adel clamps, and some

nuts and bolts. The turnbuckles gave the mount very good adjustability to

get the shot we wanted and were sturdy enough to stand up to the vibration

put out by the IO-360.



--

Rick Girard

"Pining for a home on the Range"

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jlbaker(at)telepath.com
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:28 am Post subject: Thoughts on cameras

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		   camera with a remote. Digital still cameras typically don't have 

them,
	


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		   but digital video usually do.


	


The Canon Powershot cameras (some other Canons as well) and 

some Olympus cameras (I have the 2100UZ Olympus as well) can 

be controlled through the USB port. Almost everything can be 

controlled. The beauty is that you can build a mount for the camera 

and use a laptop to control it, including seeing the framed shots in a 

window that appears to be through the viewfinder or the LCD. You 

can also set up sequenced, timed shots that make it easy to stich 

the frames together. I'm watching E Bay right now to find a broken 

LCD unit that still takes good images.



http://www.steves-digicams.com/digsoftware_cameractrl.html

Holding a camera with one hand and flying with the other sucks. And 

you never quite know if the nadir of the shot is going to be close to 

vertical.. 

Jim Baker

580.788.2779

'71 SV,  492TC

Elmore City, OK

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