My first AP photos

[key]

I setup my Trex 450 last weekend to carry my camera, and after some fiddling with the camera and mount I got it to take some 'ok' looking pictures this morning. The camera is a cheapy Sony Cyber-shot S600.

The first set I took over the weekend were real blurry, I added some paddle weights to my gorilla paddles and dialed in some expo which took care of a lot of the blurriness.

The mount is home-made, and non-adjustable. It's actually just a little plastic basket. It's attached to the skids via Velcro, and I have a servo strapped to the camera plugged into channel 7 to push the button and take the pictures. I have my 7CAP setup so that one of the toggle switches activates the servo and the camera is in "burst" mode so it takes about 7 pictures 1/2 a second apart, then I have to release the servo and let it clear it's buffer.

The pictures are of downtown Louisville, KY and Jeffersonville, IN. Anyway, here they are:
http://www.helipedia.com/images/3/3b/ZachSmith-05232007-A.jpg

http://www.helipedia.com/images/7/74/ZachSmith-05232007-B.jpg

http://www.helipedia.com/images/4/44/05232007-C-Modified-Compressed.jpg

[M Carr]

very nice, looks like you had the little 450 pretty high up there!!!

Cant wait to get my new trex600 finished and get a chance to try it out. :D

[key]

Yeah, it was pretty high. It was highest in the middle picture.. It's not a problem getting it up there, but coming down is a little tense. I was in a pretty big field so it wasn't much of a problem though.