I've been practicing lately flying my Draganfly with a 4oz weight strapped to the bottom so I can get enough flying confidence to finally take some aerial photos with a small digital camera. This is
the main reason I bought my Draganfly in the first place! (Thank you
Clement7 for the payload information.)
I scraped the excellent
www.dpreview.com site's database to find out what are the lightest cameras of all time:
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Resolution pixels weight batt. Camera
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1280x960 1.2 85 ? Casio Exilim EX-S1
1280x960 1.2 85 ? Casio Exilim EX-M1
1600x1200 1.9 79 100 Casio Exilim EX-S20
1600x1200 1.9 80 ? Casio Exilim EX-M20
1600x1200 1.9 88 106 Casio Exilim EX-S2
1600x1200 1.9 90 108 Casio Exilim EX-M2
2048x1536 3.1 72 110 Casio Exilim EX-S3
2048x1536 3.1 98 115 Pentax Optio S
2304x1728 4.0 98 115 Pentax Optio S4
2592x1944 5.0 98 114 Samsung Digimax A503
2816x2112 5.9 100 120 Pentax Optio S6
3072x2304 7.1 100 120 Pentax Optio S7
2816x2112 5.9 110 ? Olympus FE-190
3072x2304 7.1 103 118 Olympus Stylus 710
2592x1944 5.0 105 120 Canon PowerShot SD30 ELPH
3072x2304 7.1 105 120 Canon PowerShot SD40 ELPH
(4 oz is 113.4 grams.)
The old Casio Exilim cameras, while light, seem to take crappy fuzzy camcordery photos from what I've seen.
I think
cre8web uses an Olympus FE-190 and
Clement7 uses the Pentax Optio S7.
The Canon PowerShot ELPH cameras have a fabulous custom timer-shot feature that will avoid my having to wire up my own circuit to repeatedly trigger the shutter. From what I've read, the Canon's custom timer feature instructs the camera to wait up to 10 seconds, then take up to 10 photos at 2 second intervals. Perfect for getting the Draganfly up into the air and taking a bunch of shots.
-- Geoff