My shooting range seen from above.

[lrrps]

There's a metallic silhouette match this weekend at my shooting club, I took these pictures for you guys to see.
The heli is a Trex600E equiped with an Aiptek PocketcamX.
I can't get rid of the waves on the photos created by vibrations, though I put some foam between the cam and the heli body.

Enjoy:

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[txflyboys2]

The Aiptek was my first AP camera and unfortunately, those waves may never leave while flying it in a heli.............a plane has the advantage of stopping the motor and shooting while in full glide mode. CMOS format cameras seem to have more of these vibration sensitivity issues and also with low lighting conditions. Looks like you had some good altitude there! How long is your heli's flight duration?

Larry

[lrrps]

The Aiptek was my first AP camera and unfortunately, those waves may never leave while flying it in a heli.............a plane has the advantage of stopping the motor and shooting while in full glide mode. CMOS format cameras seem to have more of these vibration sensitivity issues and also with low lighting conditions. Looks like you had some good altitude there! How long is your heli's flight duration?

Larry

Thanks Larry for the explanation, I must be flying at over 100m altitude and the flight time is roughly 7 minutes on stock power plant and 6S2P, 5A lipo .
What camera are you using now?

[aramsdell]

I had one of the CVS video cams that I hacked to re-use. It would do the same thing. It helped if you covered the microphone. Why ? I have no Idea but you should try that .
I don;t know what resolution your cam is but digital cameras ,though not all, will often shoot video in 640 x 480 format. You may want to persue this a little more ...

[lrrps]

I had one of the CVS video cams that I hacked to re-use. It would do the same thing. It helped if you covered the microphone. Why ? I have no Idea but you should try that .
I don;t know what resolution your cam is but digital cameras ,though not all, will often shoot video in 640 x 480 format. You may want to persue this a little more ...


My cam can shoot video but the resolution is poor : 320X240
I mainly used it for still photography, for video my Sony PC9E does the trick but it's weighs almost 2 lbs.

[meflyjeep]

Wow, those big wihite things across the river must be hard to hit ... and that white thingy suspended in the air ... ? Just kidding, looks like a great place to shoot - firearms and photos!