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Aerial Photography and Video > Mini Spy camera's any good
 
 
blockatvalpo
Key Veteran
Location: Reston, VA

I was thinking about getting a little camera to mount on my raptor that I could hook up to my camcorder at the field. Has anyone out there tried the small mini camera. Here is one on ebay, that seems like a good deal http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&category=14957

I just want to be able to video tape flying. It doesn't have to be the best quality, but does the range run out on these fast?
12-26-2003 Over year old.
 
 
ELOSSAM
Veteran
Location: Es

I dont like these units that allows you to fine tunnig the signal. The only one I saw was difficult (very sensitive) to get the right tunning.
Thats only my oppinon and of course could be wrong but it´s what I can say about it
Mr RC-cam showed an review about this kind of cheaper wireless systems we can buy on e-bay and some of them are prone to vary a lot its transmission freq depending of the power available on the batteries.

Elossam
12-26-2003 Over year old.
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draper
Senior Heliman
Location: nr. Worcester, UK

Hi

We have tried one of these at our field in a few different machines but mostly in my Sceadu, the results were fairly dreadful due to vibration.
We tried mounting it in pieces of foam and making brackets but the better mounted the worse the vibration!
We downloaded to a 12v TV/video so we could watch live but interference at around 50 metres away meant total loss of picture especially when the engine was between the camera and receiver
We extended the Ariel wire on the camera/TX to drop below the model, which helped.
Extending the receiver Ariel on a pole might help, I’m looking for some connectors.

We are going to try it next in my electric model Robbe Eolo that now has some new lipo batteries.

Let us know how you get on if you get one
Good look
David
12-26-2003 Over year old.
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Sar
Elite Veteran
Location: Kingston, NY

One of the guys I fly with got one of these, and then I went out and got one. The video quality is pretty lousy, but for the price... what can you expect from a 30 dollar cam and transmitter?

To get a better signal we extended the length of the antennas on the camera (double original length) and used a YAGI directional antenna to pick up the signal and recpetion improved quote a bit, but nothing stellar. Here are a few videos shot with these cameras.

stock antenna(Raptor 30)
http://www.thaltech.com/ouch/video/...d-vid-crash.wmv

with extended antenna lead and YAGI base antenna (Zagi)
http://www.thaltech.com/ouch/video/zagi123.wmv

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Jon
12-27-2003 Over year old.
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