You might be able to still find a Canon SD40 Digital Elph. Steve's
Digicams liked it. Called its image quality good. 7MP. 3.7 oz. without
battery. 4.2 oz with the battery. I saw one price for $199 from a
vendor I did not know.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / May 7, 2008 CE, at 10:27 AM, Marten Beels wrote:
>
> Hello all, long time lurker, few time poster here.
>
> I'm interested in kite aerial photography, and I'm looking for a
> light weight camera. I gather from reading around that most people
> prefer to suspend the camera semi-permanently from the kite, and use
> a remote trigger system. I'm playing around with a "dolly" type
> contraption that sails up the kite string on pulleys, trips the
> shutter, and returns to the ground to view the image, or advance the
> film, or whatever.
>
> So I'm looking for a very light weight camera to ride along. I've
> identified a few in the 1-4 oz range (<100g or so), but most appear
> to be pretty horrible quality wise. I expect to make some
> compromises with image quality in a camera so light, but I'd love to
> hear from anyone who has any experience or recommendations for
> cameras in this weight range.
>
> So far I've found the Polaroid iZone 300, 310, DC-1908E, and SlimCam
> 300.
>
> Any ideas for 1-3 megapixel cameras in the sub 4oz, (100g) range
> with image quality that at least isn't horrendous? If nothing
> exists, I'll make the sail larger and could probably handle 8oz
> (200g) with modifications.
>
> OM content: my OM-2n is a bit too heavy for this contraption.
>
> Thanks,
> Marten
>
>
>
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