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  Jani Hirvinen December 17, 2012 at 5:56pm

  Two axis. roll and tilt. No any special triggers as mostly people use either automatic photo taking or video. Also it depends on the camera how to trigger it. Many cameras have remote controller to trigger photoshooting. 
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  Shyam Balasubramanian December 17, 2012 at 4:21pm

  An important question;

  How many degrees of freedom are there with mount? 2 or 3?

  Which axis does it support: Pan, Tilt OR Tilt, Roll ?

  How to take photo graphs? Is there some special trigger for this on the camera?
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  Denny Rowland October 7, 2011 at 12:19am

  I am not making any recommendations as to what you should buy. I am just pointing out the ramifications of poor design. 
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  Denny Rowland October 6, 2011 at 9:43pm

  There are many reasons why oscillations can occur, but the fundamental principles cannot be ignored. The mounting of the camera mount and the imu are critical.
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  Jani Hirvinen October 6, 2011 at 6:02pm

  Danny and others.

   

  Different type of camerasmounts works for different needs and pilots so that's why we are working with total of 5 different mounts. One has similar idea as Danny posted.

   

  I was just spending whole yesterday at our Servo factory with the engineers and we tried to find best servos to drive cameramounts and it looks like we have few good starting possibilities now.

   

  Will do more testing and final changes to two mounts after getting back to Bangkok again to our office.
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  John C. October 6, 2011 at 10:11am

  @Denny  - have a link to the new mount from Xplanes?
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  Denny Rowland October 6, 2011 at 10:10am

  I would have to say that something like this would be much better

  

  https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692281553?profile=original
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  Denny Rowland October 6, 2011 at 9:58am

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZikmHPzBt4&feature=player_embedded

  I think this shows the effect of high inertia first motion problem! Lighter camera may help but the design concept is totally flawed.IMHO.
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  Jani Hirvinen October 5, 2011 at 6:35am

  it not so big issues at least when we have done testing. This mount is good allrounder for basic camera stabilization. We are working on few different type mounts too that also cancels movement inertia almost all but they are way more complex.

   

  And picture is from our early protos, current model is a bit different but sure still have same type hanging mount. Also mount is designed only for around max 200gr payloads eg. pocket cameras.
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  Denny Rowland October 5, 2011 at 4:49am

  Jani

  I did spot one thing on that design that may not do you any favors. I see that the roll axis hinges at the top. This causes a large amount of movement  inertia. which when trying to stabilise will create an opposite movement which will be seen by the imu and thus create an oscillation. A new mount from Xplanes shows a better way to create a roll axis by keeping the axis of movements passing though the center of mass.