Watching Ron Wanttaja's Tail Rise

Neat. And good resolution for a $125 camera too:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/video.html

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:56:22 -0400, " jls" wrote:

Neat. And good resolution for a $125 camera too:

And the camera price has come down, too... less than $100 at Target.

Ron "Ready when you are, Mr. Demille" Wanttaja

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:56:22 -0400, " jls" wrote:

Neat. And good resolution for a $125 camera too:

And the camera price has come down, too... less than $100 at Target.

Ron "Ready when you are, Mr. Demille" Wanttaja


And for a mere $125 your can get a 1GB CF card to give you over 2 1/2 hours
of video!

At our last EAA Chapter 75 meeting one of our members demonstrated a size of
a quarter camera, transmitter that you just duct tape on. Receiver plugs
into a VCR and the tape can them be played. We played it a Big screen for
everyone to see with an LCD projector--- Cost of the camera, transmitter
receiver with shipping was $31.00

The camera was taped on the landing gear of a Q-200 and by using the viewer
of the VCR, his son was able to tell his dad the pilot how to turn to
capture the other plane in flight.

"UltraJohn" wrote in message
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Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:56:22 -0400, " jls"
wrote:

Neat. And good resolution for a $125 camera too:

And the camera price has come down, too... less than $100 at Target.

Ron "Ready when you are, Mr. Demille" Wanttaja


And for a mere $125 your can get a 1GB CF card to give you over 2 1/2
hours
of video!

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:43:16 GMT, UltraJohn wrote:

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

Neat. And good resolution for a $125 camera too:

And the camera price has come down, too... less than $100 at Target.

And for a mere $125 your can get a 1GB CF card to give you over 2 1/2 hours
of video!

Unfortunately, the two AA-cells that run the camera seem to last only about 45
minutes or so...they've been nearly dead at the end of all my on-gear flights.
Could rig an external pack without too much problem, though.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:08:30 GMT, "Cy Galley" wrote:

]At our last EAA Chapter 75 meeting one of our members demonstrated a size of
]a quarter camera, transmitter that you just duct tape on. Receiver plugs
]into a VCR and the tape can them be played. We played it a Big screen for
]everyone to see with an LCD projector--- Cost of the camera, transmitter
]receiver with shipping was $31.00

Still requires a battery-operated VCR to tape in flight.... ain't got one of
them, either! Saw the cameras at Oshkosh a couple of years back, certainly cool
little things.

Several years back, my wife picked up a couple of sets of battery-operated
closed-circuit TVs. These have wireless cameras talking to dedicated B&W 5"
video monitors. I strapped a couple of the cameras on the backs of RC race
cars. Pretty wild. When the batteries in the cars get low, they run slow
enough to give the wife's cats a sporting chance... :-)

I had debated using one of these cameras on the airplane, but was stymied by the
lack of a battery-powered VCR.

]The camera was taped on the landing gear of a Q-200 and by using the viewer
]of the VCR, his son was able to tell his dad the pilot how to turn to
]capture the other plane in flight.

Ah, *there's* an application I can appreciate. I've always wanted to rig up a
minicamera like that to the viewfinder of a standard camera, and haul a
extendable ~10 foot pole to fly-ins. Get near a cool airplane, run the camera
atop the pole, and get a nice shot from an unusual angle without so many people
in the way.

Ron Wanttaja

Here is what they used.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...8335 520&rd=1

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:43:16 GMT, UltraJohn
wrote:

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

Neat. And good resolution for a $125 camera too:

And the camera price has come down, too... less than $100 at Target.

And for a mere $125 your can get a 1GB CF card to give you over 2 1/2
hours
of video!

Unfortunately, the two AA-cells that run the camera seem to last only
about 45
minutes or so...they've been nearly dead at the end of all my on-gear
flights.
Could rig an external pack without too much problem, though.

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:08:30 GMT, "Cy Galley" wrote:

]At our last EAA Chapter 75 meeting one of our members demonstrated a size
of
]a quarter camera, transmitter that you just duct tape on. Receiver plugs
]into a VCR and the tape can them be played. We played it a Big screen
for
]everyone to see with an LCD projector--- Cost of the camera, transmitter
]receiver with shipping was $31.00

Still requires a battery-operated VCR to tape in flight.... ain't got one
of
them, either! Saw the cameras at Oshkosh a couple of years back,
certainly cool
little things.

Several years back, my wife picked up a couple of sets of battery-operated
closed-circuit TVs. These have wireless cameras talking to dedicated B&W
5"
video monitors. I strapped a couple of the cameras on the backs of RC
race
cars. Pretty wild. When the batteries in the cars get low, they run slow
enough to give the wife's cats a sporting chance... :-)

I had debated using one of these cameras on the airplane, but was stymied
by the
lack of a battery-powered VCR.

]The camera was taped on the landing gear of a Q-200 and by using the
viewer
]of the VCR, his son was able to tell his dad the pilot how to turn to
]capture the other plane in flight.

Ah, *there's* an application I can appreciate. I've always wanted to rig
up a
minicamera like that to the viewfinder of a standard camera, and haul a
extendable ~10 foot pole to fly-ins. Get near a cool airplane, run the
camera
atop the pole, and get a nice shot from an unusual angle without so many
people
in the way.

Ron Wanttaja

An interesting effect with the prop. I suppose it is some digital version of
the frame rate vs prop RPM stroboscope effect that we are used to seeing,
but modified because of the digital camera thing.

Anybody got a better explaination?


Ron Webb



" jls" wrote in message
...
Neat. And good resolution for a $125 camera too:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/video.html

Thank you Ron.

Errol groff
EAA 60159


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:56:22 -0400, " jls"
wrote:

Neat. And good resolution for a $125 camera too:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/video.html


Errol Groff

Instructor, Machine Tool Department
H.H. Ellis Regional Technical School
Danielson, CT 06239

860 774 8511 x1811

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote

Still requires a battery-operated VCR to tape in flight.... ain't got one
of
them, either! Saw the cameras at Oshkosh a couple of years back,
certainly cool
little things.

Ron Wanttaja

Go on down to the local pawn shop. Many older video cameras have a line in
input to use to record the camera.
--
Jim in NC


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An interesting effect with the prop. I suppose it is some digital version of
the frame rate vs prop RPM stroboscope effect that we are used to seeing,
but modified because of the digital camera thing.

Anybody got a better explaination?

Close. Most cheap cameras that use CMOS sensors and cheaper CCDs don't
expose the full frame all at once like if you took a photograph. They
expose one line at a time, so something that moves as fast as a prop
will move visibly between the time it takes to expose one line an move
to the next. The technical terms are "Full frame integration" versus
"Electronic Rolling Shutter".

So instead of a blur, you'll get a skewed image like you see in these
videos.

Its only in the last couple of years have CMOS imagers been developed
that do full frame integration. CCDs have been doing it for ages.

--Carlos V.