Anyone got an extra dSLR and a couple of flashes laying around. ; Maybe Disney could add a camera to their moving trash cans. ; How about an RC boat for roving the marshes of national wildlife refuges? The BeetleCam
You just knew this wasn't going to be far behind. ; Though using a Canon 7D is surprising. ; Must be very confident in flying this contraption. DSLR Equipped R/C Helicopter
Both of those are neat, but we need a UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) version for operations in Bay Lake.
That's really cool. ; I don't think I would ever put my camera on one of those, but its still really cool.
I'm working on a much cruder setup. ; I've got a little bitty RC plane that can just barely lift an inexpensive lightweight digital camera that I picked up for just that purpose. ; But even then it gets awfully heavy and difficult to control. ; No pan or tilt control, I just strap it to the plane in the angle that I want to take pictures from and have a remote shutter release to take the pictures. I've got a smallish RC helicopter that could probably deal with similar weight loads. ; But I'm still not happy with how it's set up, I need to work to get it running smoother. ; At the moment the gyro has an issue, it's supposed to keep it heading in the same direction but it constantly rotates the copter to one side. ; Apparently that's likely a vibration problem, I've got a few things to look into there. For another take on the flying camera setup, I also fly kites with a local kite group. ; One of them is into "kap", or kite aerial photography. ; He's got an RC based rig with pan and tilt control that can hang below a kite, I've seen it on the ground but didn't see it put into the air. You want to see some really cool stuff, there's a guy on youtube using a fairly sophisticated live video platform on a still smallish RC plane. ; I can't provide any links at the moment, I'm having big problems with youtube, all too often I can't get data streamed from it fast enough to view video in real time. ; My basic ISP connection is still fast, I'm starting to fear that they're using traffic shaping to keep people from accessing youtube. ; But if I can get a decent enough connection to youtube (sometimes late at night I get it working) for a few minutes I'll track down some of the stuff this guy has done, some of the things he's flown his little plane over.
