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Homemade Balloon Camera Video/Photos from 24 Miles Up!

ercoerco Posts: 20,260
edited 2010-06-22 11:39 in General Discussion
An AMAZING achievement, and it would be a perfect Stamp application to control the cameras...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/19/colin-richs-camera-balloo_n_618406.html

Watch the Vimeo video. Sheer genius!

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  • FranklinFranklin Posts: 4,747
    edited 2010-06-21 15:49
    Beautiful shots and the finished video in itself was great.

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  • electrosyselectrosys Posts: 212
    edited 2010-06-21 17:03
    Great job and very fine video, but music was annoying me!

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  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2010-06-21 17:33
    One of the guys who flies rockets with us here does this also. He was in the Times about two weeks ago in an article about hacking Canon cameras:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/technology/personaltech/27basics.html

    I had the opportunity almost exactly a year ago to fly an instrumented·balloon to about 100,000 feet in Indiana (we landed in Ohio). It's great fun, and the folks here probably already know half of what you need to know.
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2010-06-21 19:45
    Great video! Thanks for posting this find erco.

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  • mojorizingmojorizing Posts: 249
    edited 2010-06-21 20:11
    Good video.


    Who do you have to notify to do this? FAA? Military? Any permits need to be filled out?

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  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2010-06-22 11:39
    Fantastic video. That is an awful long way up. Makes you think how thin and fragile the atmosphere really is.

    Re electrosys "Great job and very fine video, but music was annoying me!"

    Hey, what is wrong with "The Angels"? Great Australian pub band! And, if you went to school formals in the 1980s, you will know there is a reply to the question; "Am I ever going to see your face again?", usually shouted at high volume, but I think the censors may prevent me from quoting it here! Oh, ok, since they are from my home town, www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=5323

    I've got me some keychain video recorders off ebay for $20 including the sd card. Much lighter than a camera. I've already stuck one on a Chinook model helicopter and flown over my house. I wonder whether they would go higher?

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