*New pic* Some Aerial Photography (with my RC plane)

Post by **-SKID-** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:23 am

Decided to try some AP with one of my planes today. Need to work on some things to get the camera better focused, and make a more versatile camera mount, but you get the idea. There will be better ones in the future.

Denzzzz, Im ready when you are to get those gassers out.

Let me know when youre not busy on a weekend. Thats me in the last pic.

Here's a couple of the good ones I took today, touched up a bit in PS. Kinda hard to tell the second one is aerial, but its at least 400 feet up.

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Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:24 am

Err, i know this is kinda geeky, but could you snap a picture of the cam on the plane?

Post by **Bdw3** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:31 am

amidy

Cool stuff :icon14:

Post by **Nightshade** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:37 am

That's cool, Mike Chertoff would be proud.

Post by **Canidae** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:15 am

I tried to do this with a balloon and the new fangled disc camera in the early 80's...

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:21 am

Is this a special video add-on you can buy?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:23 am

thats waht i am wondering!

Post by **-SKID-** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:34 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:Err, i know this is kinda geeky, but could you snap a picture of the cam on the plane?

I would, bet then Id need another camera.

Its my only camera, but Ill borrow one, and take a pic when I have it remounted on the plane again. I just bought a mini tripod from walmart, and am going to make a better mount for it.

mjrpes wrote:Is this a special video add-on you can buy?

No, its just my Casio digital camera with a servo to push the shutter switch every time I want to take a pic. I just use an extra channel on my transmitter to run the servo.

Post by **SoM** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:21 am

take some pictures while u fly your plane into some house/building

Post by **andyman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:24 am

AWESOME!!

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:29 am

-SKID- wrote:
No, its just my Casio digital camera with a servo to push the shutter switch every time I want to take a pic. I just use an extra channel on my transmitter to run the servo.

If you started a business where you sold ready to go RC planes with a video camera attachment at a modest premium, I think you'd do quite well.

Post by **Canis** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:35 am

That's awesome!

Post by **Chupacabra** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:56 am

thats pretty cool

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:12 am

nice!

here's a silly question from someone that knows zilch about RC planes: any idea of the altitude? does it have some sort of altimeter on it or the "remote"?

Post by **Denz** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:42 am

Pretty cool skid. I thought of doing that to my plane but never got around to doing it. I have the camera too. I guess I could mount it.

I will give you a call when I'm ready to go out. Hopefully it will be soon.

I like that, "That's me in the picture." hehehee

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:53 am

Pretty sweet -SKID- :icon14:

Post by **plained** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:44 pm

thats neat ey

Post by **andyman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:51 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:nice!

here's a silly question from someone that knows zilch about RC planes: any idea of the altitude? does it have some sort of altimeter on it or the "remote"?

You could probably slap a gps receiver on there or, better yet, an altimeter

otherwise just 'wing' it

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:22 pm

I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE!!!

Post by **Nightshade** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:28 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:nice!

here's a silly question from someone that knows zilch about RC planes: any idea of the altitude? does it have some sort of altimeter on it or the "remote"?

You'd have to rig some sort of telemetry system. Which gives me a cool idea, thanks Juggs.

For those interested, http://www.rctoys.com offers The Draganflyer, an extremely slick little RC...uh...thing that has great video capability. It's NOT cheap, as a matter of fact it's expensive as fuck. But damn it's cool.

Post by **andyman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:06 pm

attach this to the plane.....I am thinking of putting one on the rc car

http://cgi.ebay.com/COLOUR-WIRELESS-SPY ... dZViewItem

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:22 pm

I would, bet then Id need another camera. Its my only camera, but Ill borrow one, and take a pic when I have it remounted on the plane again. I just bought a mini tripod from walmart, and am going to make a better mount for it.
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For now you could take a pic of it in front of a mirror?

Since your cam is remote wireless, could you remotely use it from your pc, this way you could see the ground from your pc as if you would be yourself in the plane? That be cool hey? The only thing is you'd have to use a lap top or bring your pc and monitor outside.
BTW Cool pics.

Post by **-SKID-** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:18 am

Thanks guys.

I took some more pics today, but it was pretty dark, so only a few came out good. Bet I think this shoot went better than before. I even took some video, but have to edit it. Ill post it when I get it done.

Also, working on yet another mount for the camera. I think this one will be great. Ill post pics when Im done.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:11 am

dude... thats sweet!
low-tech spy plane... just don't let the NSA catch ya.

would be cool if you could rig a high-res webcam to it, and a wireless access point on a high-gain directional antenna.
then we could watch what your plane sees from the net.
geeky-but-neat.

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:42 am

second one is very nice

New pic Some Aerial Photography (with my RC plane)

New pic Some Aerial Photography (with my RC plane)