REFLECTOR: FW: Winglet camera

Hiroo Umeno humeno at microsoft.com
Thu Apr 19 19:48:03 CDT 2007


Maybe it's just me who has hard time with walking and chew gum (or fly my Velo and operate a camera) but the thought of having to work a laptop while flying gives me the Hee-bee-Gee-bees<g>.

Hiroo

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Darrell & Nora Kufalk
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:26 PM
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: FW: Winglet camera

Rene',

I have been thinking about the same thing.  Luckily, technology has caught up with us.

WiFi digital cameras.  Put the camera out on the wing and control it with your laptop.  You can even see what you're about to capture.  I don't know if you can turn them on and off remotely and save the batteries.  Here are 3 cameras with long reviews that I haven't read yet.

Here's the link with more info.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/holiday2006/wifi.html

Darrell







-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Rene Dugas
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:44 PM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: REFLECTOR: FW: Winglet camera



-----Original Message-----
From: Rene Dugas [mailto:dugasd at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 5:50 PM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Winglet camera

Dear fellows,
I wish to mount a wind protected acrylic box on the inside of my winglet to mount a small digital camera that has a remote control activated from the cockpit to take travel pictures from the pilot side winglet over the plane and to the background.  I need to be able to turn it on, have autofocus and trip the shutter from inside of the plane.  I do not wish to wire this.  I plan to silicone the bracket to the winglet behind a separate wind dam or ramp of three inches and Velcro and strap the camera for easy but secure mounting.  Does anyone have experience with such a camera?  It does not need to be water proof since I would not mount in bad weather but I could make the acrylic box sealed.  Cascio makes a great little camera but it is not remote controllable.  Ideas.
Rene'
I am familiar with Rich's arrangement.  I'm too lazy to do all that work for  my occasional picture.
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