Best camera for aerial still photos?
05-11-2007, 02:38 PM
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Best camera for aerial still photos?
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:
(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
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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Mega Empty with Resolution pixels weight batt. Camera ---------------------------------------------------------- 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
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
03-16-2009, 05:04 PM
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RE: Best camera for aerial still photos?
I bought two Casio Exlim cameras (one of them is ex-z9).
I would not recommend it!!!
they are unreliable & tend to jam & brake + the ex-z9 many times when I wanted to take a picture the camera took so long to focus i missed the shot.
the other one was a different exlim but it broke in regular use & was not worth while fixing, it is in the garbage now so that is why i don't have the model number.
I would not recommend it!!!
they are unreliable & tend to jam & brake + the ex-z9 many times when I wanted to take a picture the camera took so long to focus i missed the shot.
the other one was a different exlim but it broke in regular use & was not worth while fixing, it is in the garbage now so that is why i don't have the model number.
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RE: Best camera for aerial still photos?
From my experience the DF even with Ti activated is very hard to control at more than 60 feet high even with a 3 Onz payload.
