Comment by Brian Wolfe on September 8, 2010 at 9:18pm

Nice setup!
Your website seems to have lots of info about your photography service, but as a DIY site we would be interested in your build. Can you offer any details on your rig? Did I miss it on your site?

Thanks,
Brian

Moderator Comment by John Church on September 8, 2010 at 9:30pm

That's a nice looking ride. What's at the other end of your IR sensor cable; a CoPilot or something a bit more powerful? I'm jonesing for stable ArduCopter Heli software for my 600e!

Developer Comment by Randy on September 8, 2010 at 11:37pm

The ArduCopter modification for traditional heli's is coming along although it'll still be more than a month I suspect until code is ready for alpha testers. It's built for a Trex450 but should hopefully work for any helicopter with some tuning. Hopefully it will make it much more difficult to crash your expensive heli!

Comment by RoboCopter on September 9, 2010 at 2:58am

Nice set up. I am about to stretch my 600 ESP FPV heli, what size blades are you swinging and what is your max flight time without cam? Thanks.

Comment by Paul Marsh on September 9, 2010 at 7:33am

If it isn't a trade secret, I'd like to know how you set up your shots. How do you know what the camera is looking at? Is the focal length fixed or are you using zoom? Would a small video camera attached to the still camera with live downlink be practical for setting up the shots? Or do you just shoot a lot of photos and select the best?

Thanks,
Paul

Developer Comment by Mark Colwell on September 9, 2010 at 7:39am

Did you build the camera mount, It looks very sturdy. What motor / ESC and pinion gear?

Comment by ken wood on September 9, 2010 at 10:38am

It would be neat if you could hack the camera to focus at will via laptop ground station. Or maybe there is a way to interface to a digital remote trigger.

Comment by Jack Crossfire on September 9, 2010 at 1:42pm

Good example of the contrast between the brand name stuff & the individual seller stuff. Thermopile stabilization & flybars are still the state of the art with the brand names. IMU autopilot & electronic flybars are still mainly individual sellers.

Comment by Tony Passera on September 9, 2010 at 5:53pm

I just finished building a Trex 600 ESP and I'm shopping for a camera mount. Is yours a photoshipone mount or something else?
Thanks,
Tony

Comment by On Location Aerial on September 14, 2010 at 3:39pm

This is not my setup, but I can say for sure that he is using the Photoship One 2xpt mount.

To Matt, please share more about your machine. What auto pilot are you using? What are you using to stabilize the mount?

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