To take aerial photos, you need to attach your camera to a balloon, kite, pole, or whatever! Try the "standard" rubber band rig, the venerable soda bottle rig, or the juice jug rig. (above image via @mathew in this post) Activities Not all #photo-rig designs have been adapted into activities, but here are number that have been started: [activities:photo-rig] Questions [questions:photo-rig] (above image via @mathew in this post)...
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| mathew | "awesome! what is the gunk you're using to attach the camera? just tape? " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| clayton | "Wouldn't you still need a spectrometer with you to calibrate the panel every time you go out into the field to account for varying lighting conditi..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| TedF | "Thanks espero - nicely done, sorry the pulleys were too big to use - I too continue to struggle to find small ones and am wondering if I couldn't j..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| espero | "TedF, could you upload a photo of the camera held to the picavet with its elastic bands? I've just tried to make a version of your Picavet using p..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "cool! a lot of those images and info are on the wikipedia page too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_photography " | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Pat, The Wratten 87 passes only NIR; it's great for the NIR camera in a dual camera rig. The Wratten 25 is the best filter I have used for a sin..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Chris, Nice rig. Great value. I like the results. Has there been discussion of the Wratten 87 polyester filter vs Wratten 25? " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "cool flight test! it looks like its one of those cameras that takes a 640x480 image and upscales it to 1280x960. I've seen several of those. be..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| natevw | "So the good news: the fishing reel (and bottom half of a rod) plus a two foot balloon is a real fun rig! Did not have any trouble with the ~10lb li..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| natevw | "Thanks for the feedback everyone! I'd been traveling a lot lately and then catching up, so most of the equipment has been just sitting around. I'v..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| cnr437 | "Hi there is a campaign for connecting more than one camera module to one raspberry pi therefore it can be solution for multiple camera applications..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| ajawitz | "I've tried using a small keychain camera for KAP and I basically just used a miniature version of the standard PET Bottle Rig- http://publiclab.org..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "on second thought I think the nylon monofilament will work if you have a good winder for it (I.E. fishing rod). go for at least 10lb. " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Next step: Live streaming data from your balloons to the ground. ;) " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Nice! John Wells and SNAPS are masters of this. You might enjoy their rigs and strategies: http://www.armadale.org.uk/snaps.htm " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| gustrow | "Thanks for the invite Stevie. I just sign up for the OpenHour " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Love it! We've been planning to release a minimal kite kit based on a keychain can but haven't run hard numbers or a test. A slightly higher end on..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Great Project! would you be interested in sharing it on the OpenHour next week?? The topic is NIR. and NIR tools :) " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "nice- beat me to it by a bit. thanks for the link to the data repository " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| wward1400 | "Posted in plots-infrared March 2014 Data & Results were included on Mitch Bryson's page. " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "here's a $10 calibration card. The DGK Color Tools DKK " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "The color target he uses is a X-Rite Digital ColorChecker, but the paper on creating such a target is mccamy1976.pdf " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I have access to the first reference, but it's paywalled. contact me if you need it. Using digital cameras to investigate animal colouration: est..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "The second reference (43) on this paper describing how to calibrate the cameras is "Recovering device sensitivities with quadratic programming." Gr..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago |