The Expensive Hobby Of Kite Aerial Photography

GoneGaryT writes "The BBC is running a cool article - strapping your digital camera to a kite and doing D.I.Y. aerial photography. Examples of suitable kites can be found here. Anyone want to try this from the top of an apartment building in London or NY? A pretty accessible pastime, so long as you can afford to lose the lot in a sudden gust!" High-res digital cameras have come down somewhat in price since the last time we mentioned this.

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Kite photo gallery

[linuxwrangler]

Check out Charles C. Benton's Site for collections from years of kite photography.

what about strapping camera's to rc cars?

[narkotix]

we sometimes strap one of those x10 type wireless cams to rc cars...can be an interesting view especially when your chasing your dog/cat/annoying neighbourhood kid.

Re:a friend did do that

[jeffy124]

found it! http://prism.mem.drexel.edu/projects/kite/index.ht ml

IIRC, they had to develop a business case for the project (in other words, what engineers developed had to have a practical usage), and there was also some sort of entrpreneurial business plan competition sponsored by the business school going on at about the same time, so they also entered that contest using their kite project as a product and got an honorable mention. the page linked is what they submitted to that contest.