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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/25/2002 11:44:28 PM

frieshoo

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I'm going to strap my AIPTEK PenCam ($29.99 at Walmart) onto my WM Cub, and take some shots of our club field... The digital camera is small, and takes 320X320 still shots, or 7 seconds of AVI.... I'm doing this wednesday, weather permitting, I post the shots.

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/26/2002 5:52:25 PM

NCBrit

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How are you going to trigger the camera?

What would be perfect would be a small digital camera like the pencam, with a lead that could plug straight into a receiver channel to trigger it. I dont see why one of the electronics guru's couldnt come up with something.

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PenCam - 6/27/2002 2:44:24 AM

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How are you going to turn the little bugger ON, 'cause it has that stupid auto-shutdown! Think taping the on/off button down will do it?? I bought one a couple of weeks ago after seeing some shots on rec.rc.air... But HIS camera had better resolution than 320x320!!

Bob Severance

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/27/2002 3:16:38 AM

theKAT

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FriesHoo,

Let us know how that works out. Our Wally World has them, but they are $39.95. We pay more for everything here....:-(

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/27/2002 4:39:02 AM

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I was thinking about getting the smallest, cheapest 35 mm camera I could find and just trigger it with a small servo.

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/27/2002 6:34:35 AM

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Small cheap 35mm camera with auto-wind, that is what I use.

K-mart about $30.00-$40.00 add small servo and build a box around it.

Tim

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/27/2002 7:24:07 AM

Brokenprop

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That's a beautiful camera pod. Nice work! Does it affect the flight characteristics of the plane much?

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/27/2002 11:04:01 PM

easy2fly

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i think i have what you guys are talking about. it says clever cam on the front. it weights 2 5/8ounces but the take picture button is a little small.

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Brokenprop - 6/28/2002 12:25:35 AM

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Thanks
This is the second one I built. The first one was a simple square box and flight characteristics were NOT GOOD. This one I rounded the front and tapered the back to make it more aerodynamic. Flyes much nicer.
Here is a photo taken with this camera on a different plane.
The actual photo looks better than this scanned one. :

Tim

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/28/2002 6:14:01 AM

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Wonder

Great shot! Nice field. I gotta try that. Thanks.

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/28/2002 6:20:11 AM

DSJBEAN

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A friend of mine mounted a 35mm camera in the side of a Quaker and takes pics with it. Surprisingly they turn out okay. He works the push button with a piece of dowel attached to a spare servo.

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/28/2002 8:49:33 AM

theKAT

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Gee dsjbean,

Does't the Quaker protest thee putting a camera in his side?

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/28/2002 7:39:25 PM

Brokenprop

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The threads always seem to deteriorate, don't they. LOL

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AIPTEK PenCam - 6/28/2002 10:34:24 PM

Wonder

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FriesHoo,
Let us know how the PenCam works, I have been looking at these every time I go to WallMart. Thought about trying one myself. I want to put a digital in the air, but don't want to use my 2 mega pixel FUJI. To many $$$ if I lose it.

Tim

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Aero Photography CHEAP!!!! - 6/28/2002 10:56:12 PM

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I have one of those little digi cams but it turns itself off after just several seconds of not taking any pics.........John

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