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Permalink Reply by Jake Stew on July 27, 2012 at 3:02am

A Cannon is the way to go.  Of all the cameras I've used I like Cannons the best as far as picture quality.

The CHDK (the hack) is awesome.  You transform a cheap camera into a darn fancy one.  

You can load scripts onto the SD card.  The scripts can do all sorts of things and there's literally hundreds of settings to play with.  The scripts are really more like programs, and you can do motion detection and all sorts of crazy things.

The best part is that you can cut up a regular USB cable and use it to easily trigger the camera.

Just make sure you check out the CHDK site to make sure whatever camera you're looking at is fully supported.  You probably also want image stabilization.

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Permalink Reply by Darren Stan Oakley on July 27, 2012 at 3:20am

Great thanks for the advise. Was thinking the Canon route maybe the best way to go.do you know if the USB trigger would work for all the cameras supported by the hack or are they more model specific ?

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Permalink Reply by Bill Salopek on September 25, 2012 at 8:06am

The best part is that you can cut up a regular USB cable and use it to easily trigger the camera.

 

Could you explain that briefly please, or point to a link that explains it?  

Thanks...

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Permalink Reply by Cala on July 29, 2012 at 4:48pm

I saw a Lumix water proof that have good functions for this activity; timelapse, gps, built in lens, resistence, 12mp.http://www.panasonic.com.ar/productos/audio_video_digital/camaras_d...

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Permalink Reply by Price Campbell on August 6, 2012 at 9:06am

Does any one happen to know if you can just use the APM1 to trip the shutter via the USB port on the camera? 

It seems that the Gentles USB controller had a microcontroller in it.  Apparently there are different pulse widths to control different things on the camera, zoom, video, scrips for intervalometer etc.  Thats why they use the microcontroller, but isn't the APM1 a giant one?    

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1387378#post17367575

I was thinking of building this, but programming the darned thing seems daunting.. 

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Permalink Reply by Cala on August 6, 2012 at 3:31pm

I make a mistake, Jerry conrirm me that this camera does't have time lapse, What's a pitty :(

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Permalink Reply by Price Campbell on August 6, 2012 at 7:37pm

I wanted a Panasonic but the only shutter option is mech servo.  Man go with a canon and anything you want they already wrote scritps for.  I want french fires and an inervolometer....

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Permalink Reply by Cala on September 21, 2012 at 4:27pm

The new Panasonic TS4 have time lapse, It's no so good but it have.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Salopek on September 25, 2012 at 8:03am

I am virtually certain that the max picture-taking rate for that Panasonic is 1 per minute.

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Permalink Reply by Roger Ronald on September 21, 2012 at 6:07am

I plan to use the software hack to do a 1 second intervelometer. Not as good as pressing the button manually, but it will capture stills on anything that I hold in my view for a second or more.

RR

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Permalink Reply by Bill Salopek on September 25, 2012 at 8:02am

Darren,

I am thinking most folks use a GoPro or a Canon camera with CHDK firmware, and just set the camera to take X pictures per second, etc  (CHDK max rate is 1 picture per second, GoPro is 2 pictures per second.).

Doing that will result in dozens and dozens of digital pics you won't use, but as far as I know, it's the easiest/cheapest way to make the camera takes pics while flying, the other option, like you said, a more expensive camera with an external remote.

I have looked and looked for a non-GoPro camera with built-in intervalometer, but I haven't found one that takes pics at any higher a rate than 1 per MINUTE.

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Permalink Reply by Darren Stan Oakley on September 25, 2012 at 8:14am

I ended up picking up a new canon powershot 2200 and so far have just used it in movie mode with good results. There is a beta of the hack for it but figure a stable version can be far off. Once that is out I will just script my shots. Thanks for all the relays guys.

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