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Has anyone out there ever mounted a camera on an RC Electric Helicopter?
I am about to attempt that so I would like to correspond with someone who
has done that and can mentor and advise me.
Please contact me directly at:
dah_dah@sbcglobal.net
Cheers,
Christopher R. Mohr Sr.
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> Has anyone out there ever mounted a camera on an RC Electric Helicopter?
> I am about to attempt that so I would like to correspond with someone who
> has done that and can mentor and advise me.
Weight and balance are your primary concern.
> Please contact me directly at:
>
> dah_dah@sbcglobal.net
Not likely. That's not how usenet works. Besides, how will you ever sort
through all the junk mail after publishing your email on usenet?
--
Mark
Photos, Ideas & Opinions
http://www.marklauter.com
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Never tried RC but I've worked on real ones plenty; you should look to
build a self-contained 'pod' slung between the skids - extend if
necessary - such that the centre of gravity of the pod is on the rotor
axis (the centre of lift for a rotary wing). The same approach as for
underslung loads. Your biggest problem will be vibration, calling for
VERY fast shutter speeds, but you need small apertures for depth of
focus... in the full scale world this is dealt with by gyro-stabilised
platforms similar to steadycams. Oh yeah, and loads of money!
In short, you'll probably get something flying but the results may be
dissappointing.
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Yes, it's very common in the hobby circles. Not only digital stills, but
video too! Helicopters, airplanes, kites, rockets, you name it, they're
doing it! If you try searching with Google, using various related keywords,
you'll find plenty of hits.
Bill Crocker
"dah_dah" <dah_dah@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Z6Fle.1892$kS3.1260@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> Has anyone out there ever mounted a camera on an RC Electric Helicopter?
> I am about to attempt that so I would like to correspond with someone who
> has done that and can mentor and advise me.
> Please contact me directly at:
>
> dah_dah@sbcglobal.net
>
> Cheers,
> Christopher R. Mohr Sr.
>
>
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On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:18:49 GMT, dah_dah wrote:
> Has anyone out there ever mounted a camera on an RC Electric Helicopter?
> I am about to attempt that so I would like to correspond with someone who
> has done that and can mentor and advise me.
> Please contact me directly at:
>
> dah_dah@sbcglobal.net
>
> Cheers,
> Christopher R. Mohr Sr.
Check out this forum, you may have to join but you should get all kinds of
informantion.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Ae [...] _81/tt.htm
JakeInHartsel
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Thanks for the input Bill.
"Bill Crocker" <wcrocker007@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:sPednRG3NJjOqArfRVn-iw@comcast.com...
> Yes, it's very common in the hobby circles. Not only digital stills, but
> video too! Helicopters, airplanes, kites, rockets, you name it, they're
> doing it! If you try searching with Google, using various related
keywords,
> you'll find plenty of hits.
>
> Bill Crocker
>
>
> "dah_dah" <dah_dah@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:Z6Fle.1892$kS3.1260@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> > Has anyone out there ever mounted a camera on an RC Electric Helicopter?
> > I am about to attempt that so I would like to correspond with someone
who
> > has done that and can mentor and advise me.
> > Please contact me directly at:
> >
> > dah_dah@sbcglobal.net
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christopher R. Mohr Sr.
> >
> >
>
>
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Thanks for your pm, dah_dah. Don't let my comments put you off, that
wasn't my intention. You're going to have good fun trying this and if
you produce a shot of your intended target in any kind of focus, you
can consider it a major engineering achievement!
If you plan on flying your brand-new Nikon D70 though, do post about it
beforehand, we'll all likely show up to cheer you on. Good luck :-)
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People - successfully - were taking photos from KITES decades ago.
Estes - manufacturer of those cheap kids' model rockets popular in the
"space age" - even sold a camera to mount as the nose cone for them 30
years ago.
A "spy" how-to book explained how to mount tiny remote-broadcast
cameras on radio-controlled cars not long ago.
Don't think it hasn't been done before.
See all our stuff at the http://stores.ebay.com/INTERNET-GUN-SHOW
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Yeah, I remember that rocket *grin*. Lost a few of them. They and kites
worked well because of no engine vibration.. the rocket, as I recall,
took the shot on the way back down and (perhaps) the parachute opened
and returned your precious negative safely to earth. A kite's perfect
because you can get it pretty much stationary. Getting a shot from a
moving chopper should tax the brain a bit more. Nice way to spend the
summer.
The best platform, I would have thought,would be a free balloon - zero
wind, zero vibration... but I guess you already have a helicopter, LOL.
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On 27 May 2005 09:17:33 -0700, in rec.photo.digital , "Peter A."
<peter29110@gmail.com> in
<1117210652.982512.98470@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
>Thanks for your pm, dah_dah. Don't let my comments put you off, that
>wasn't my intention. You're going to have good fun trying this and if
>you produce a shot of your intended target in any kind of focus, you
>can consider it a major engineering achievement!
>If you plan on flying your brand-new Nikon D70 though, do post about it
>beforehand, we'll all likely show up to cheer you on. Good luck :-)
And commiserate regarding the damage after the crash.
--
Matt Silberstein
All in all, if I could be any animal, I would want to be
a duck or a goose. They can fly, walk, and swim. Plus,
there there is a certain satisfaction knowing that at the
end of your life you will taste good with an orange sauce
or, in the case of a goose, a chestnut stuffing.
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I do aerial photography from a powered parachute, but I'm up there to
work the camera. It's a great machine for aerial photography because it
flies at under 30 mph, it's hands off, and it's wide open. I think a
model powered parachute would also make a good platform.
Q
Peter A. wrote:
> Yeah, I remember that rocket *grin*. Lost a few of them. They and kites
> worked well because of no engine vibration.. the rocket, as I recall,
> took the shot on the way back down and (perhaps) the parachute opened
> and returned your precious negative safely to earth. A kite's perfect
> because you can get it pretty much stationary. Getting a shot from a
> moving chopper should tax the brain a bit more. Nice way to spend the
> summer.
> The best platform, I would have thought,would be a free balloon - zero
> wind, zero vibration... but I guess you already have a helicopter, LOL.
>
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I don't have his phone number nor address, but see if you can contact
a Brett Horton in Hartsville, SC, who does this sort of thing from an
R/C Helicopter for commercial purposes. The last I heard he was still
using a fuel powered glow engine for power, but that may have changed.
One of the digital TV channels recently had a 30 minute show of his
performance. I didn't get to see it, but believe it was on the
"Outdoor Channel" and was titled "Inside R/C". Good luck.
Olin McDaniel
On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:57:23 -0400, "Bill Crocker"
<wcrocker007@comcast.net> wrote:
>Yes, it's very common in the hobby circles. Not only digital stills, but
>video too! Helicopters, airplanes, kites, rockets, you name it, they're
>doing it! If you try searching with Google, using various related keywords,
>you'll find plenty of hits.
>
>Bill Crocker
>
>
>"dah_dah" <dah_dah@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>news:Z6Fle.1892$kS3.1260@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
>> Has anyone out there ever mounted a camera on an RC Electric Helicopter?
>> I am about to attempt that so I would like to correspond with someone who
>> has done that and can mentor and advise me.
>> Please contact me directly at:
>>
>> dah_dah@sbcglobal.net
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christopher R. Mohr Sr.
>>
>>
>
>
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"dah_dah" <dah_dah@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Z6Fle.1892$kS3.1260@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> Has anyone out there ever mounted a camera on an RC Electric Helicopter?
> I am about to attempt that so I would like to correspond with someone who
> has done that and can mentor and advise me.
> Please contact me directly at:
>
> dah_dah@sbcglobal.net
>
> Cheers,
> Christopher R. Mohr Sr.
>
>
Not so difficult or unusual as most of these posters seem to think.
You can actually buy a fully functionng RC miniature helicopter complete
with steerable Camera Mounts, RC for Camera control and video downlinks for
aiming. They are reasonably priced for the amount of technology involved.
You only need to bolt on the Camera, and you are in business.
Locally there is a company who use a tethered Miniature Hot Air Balloon for
Aerial Work. It has RC controlled Gas Burners, as well as the RC Steerable
Camera Mount, a Video downlink for Aiming the Camera, and another for
reading the Hot Air Temperature and and Gas Bottle Pressure Gauge.
Roy G
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Thank you for your input Peter.
Here is an opposite opinion:
Yes, it's very common in the hobby circles. Not only digital stills, but
video too! Helicopters, airplanes, kites, rockets, you name it, they're
doing it! If you try searching with Google, using various related keywords,
you'll find plenty of hits.
Bill Crocker
"Peter A." <peter29110@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1117210652.982512.98470@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks for your pm, dah_dah. Don't let my comments put you off, that
> wasn't my intention. You're going to have good fun trying this and if
> you produce a shot of your intended target in any kind of focus, you
> can consider it a major engineering achievement!
> If you plan on flying your brand-new Nikon D70 though, do post about it
> beforehand, we'll all likely show up to cheer you on. Good luck :-)
>
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Oh dear, I seem to be coming across as an 'anti', not the case at
all...
Should you find yourself in the vicinity of Weston-Super-Mare, UK,
incidentally, the Westland H'copter Museum have 3 experimental RC
machines in thier collection which would stop most modellers in thier
tracks. Built in the 70's, they are quite incredible. The one
resembling a conventional helicopter would be about 1:8 scale, the
other two defy description altogether. Should you visit the place, I
guarantee you will spend hours examining them; they are miracles of
miniature engineering. I found thier website, there are photos of all 3
near the bottom of this page:
http://www.helicoptermuseum.co.uk/westland.htm
Unfortunately these photos are appalling, but they might inspire you to
visit.
Sadly, excuse pun, none of these projects got off the ground into
production.
If they'd had the computing power available now, though... you could
make them an offer!
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Olin K. McDaniel wrote:
> I don't have his phone number nor address, but see if you can contact
> a Brett Horton in Hartsville, SC, who does this sort of thing from an
> R/C Helicopter for commercial purposes. The last I heard he was still
> using a fuel powered glow engine for power, but that may have changed.
> One of the digital TV channels recently had a 30 minute show of his
> performance. I didn't get to see it, but believe it was on the
> "Outdoor Channel" and was titled "Inside R/C". Good luck.
>
> Olin McDaniel
>
>
> On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:57:23 -0400, "Bill Crocker"
> <wcrocker007@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Yes, it's very common in the hobby circles. Not only digital stills, but
>>video too! Helicopters, airplanes, kites, rockets, you name it, they're
>>doing it! If you try searching with Google, using various related keywords,
>>you'll find plenty of hits.
>>
>>Bill Crocker
>>
>>
>>"dah_dah" <dah_dah@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>news:Z6Fle.1892$kS3.1260@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
>>
>>>Has anyone out there ever mounted a camera on an RC Electric Helicopter?
>>>I am about to attempt that so I would like to correspond with someone who
>>>has done that and can mentor and advise me.
>>>Please contact me directly at:
>>>
>>>dah_dah@sbcglobal.net
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Christopher R. Mohr Sr.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
Here ya go: http://www.copterviews.com/
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