Hi, i've looked at a few digital cameras, a lot of them are very small and getting smaller, I was thinking of doing some surgery on one to lose some excess weight, but it might be just as well to wait for the next generation of cameras, they seem to get better resolution and smaller size all the time.
It'd be a bugger to spend hours trimming one down, only to find a new model half the size :P

Those are some nice pictures you're getting with that camera, I have been talking to a guy who built a camera mount for his single rotor gas "chopper" and he used four strings to "dangle" the camera under the chopper to isolate it from high frequency vibration.
He also laughed at my little draganfly as a AP platform, he thought it would be too underpowered in any kind of wind, which is probably fair comment, I dont like flying when there is any more than the lightest breeze