I have just recently mounted a camera on my blade 400. Works great except for the fact that the picture is all ripely. I think this has something to do with the blades, but i want to know if there is a way to fix it? Mayb by mounting the camera on a different part of the helicopter?, Mayb by isolating it in a box mayb to avoid any interference the blades may b causing?

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Faster shutter speed can help, as well as turning on any sort of movement compensation the camera has. People do have twitchy hands after all. But yeah, you want to isolate the camera as much as possible from the heli, direct to frame is not good. Really you want it to be able to move in every direction independent of the heli, with dampening material at the joints. Just because the heli shakes doesn't mean the camera should. Then you could try lowering the amount the heli itself vibrates. Balance the blades and head really well. Make sure they track true. Use longer blades if you can, to compensate for lowering the head speed. Both should help turn high frequency vibrations to low frequency ones, while maintaining lift.

Ok thanks, i have all the balancing good, so ill just make like a rubber mount and try that..

Is this a camera that records to SD or wireless? If wireless you may never get rid of the waves.

Luckily it records to SD

Ya, then it's probably a combination of electrical and vibration interference. I don't get it as bad when I run a camera in my RC cars but put it in a heli and it's worse.

I also remember reading somewhere once that mounting it directly under the frame so it is basically hidden from the rotors helps. I have not done it as my camera died as I was about to try it. If I can find the link I will post it.

If its the rotor wash making it shake, then you could put a dome of sorts to shield the camera under the frame. Then isolate mount the camera under the dome (not attached to it, or the dome will shake it) in the protected zone it creates. A plastic bowl could make a nice dome.

I don't want to upset anyone but have any of you got a camera working on a heli with out the lines! I think your right about the mount but how far do you have to go, I tried but just used cable ties, it's not my camera and didn't want to waste to much time over engineering a mount, it worked but with lines, more a wave affect but it's the same sort of thing,
some video and pictures would be good if any one has cracked it with a 450, it would help a lot of people,

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; background-position: initial initial; ">I get rid of almost all the lines and ripples, i just used a rubber mount, and foam inbetween the camera and rubber, and also covered the camera in foam, and it seems to b working great, on my 400, im getting a align 700 soon, so we will see how it works on that beast </div></span>