My First Pitts Video

[mars01]

I noticed that too HT, and it has to be the way the camera is mounted. Trust me when i was practicing loops and rolls with him the other day all I heard was "move your head!" Check the wings!" "look here... look there!".

Hehehehe - Morph was like a dear in the head lights the first few times.  Id watch him pull for a loop and all I could see is his head fixated on the front.  LOL.  Your rolls were nice.  By the end the loops were good once he got some Pitts SA.

So he's looking and doing alot of things that arent showing up in the film for some reason. Again I think its the view angle and the way/where its mounted. I think its mounted on his head set. But again, its not showing all his head movements. Thats what I thnk. Im sure mars could give you a better answer.

Yeah I was trying not to move to erradically so the video footage would be decent.

[Morpheus]

lol i was really secretly trying to put us into an inverted flat spin! Im the Red Barron i tell ya!:furious

[cav58d]

Rob...Id still like to do some formation flying with you.....I got a new cell and never updated and lost your # though.....give me a ring

twr- if you read this as well, give me a call

[cav58d]

Very cool how the camera gives the illusion of tbe prop blades bending

[TalonX]

I noticed you overrotated a right aileron turn by 5 degrees.  

Seriously, dude, hot stuff.   Brought me way back to my early days in a Citabria, which ain't nuthin' compared to the Pitts.

Thanks!

[TracerX]

Why did I not see any high G blackout tunnels or neg G red outs?  Something didn't seem right there.  

[doobs]

Way cool, don't think I can get any greener am I jealous.

[Roscoroo]

Great Film  Mars ...

But I'm a Greedy Bastagie ....  MORE MORE MORE !!!!!!!!

[Morpheus]

seek and he shall receive;)

[Roscoroo]

they are great .. I practically left a "Rosco" sized hole in the front door when I got home from work just to watch it .

[mars01]

Why did I not see any high G blackout tunnels or neg G red outs? Something didn't seem right there.

LOLH I could just see my head drops all you looking at is the floor, couple seconds later...   Hes alive lolh.

Cav I'll give you ring.

[hitech]

mars01. Your video got me wanting to make simalar ones.What did you use for camer and how did you mount it?


HiTech

[mars01]

Sweet!!!

Go to http://www.supercircuits.com/  They have all kinds of micro cameras.

I used this one first, but it has no great light balancing.
http://www.supercircuits.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=4224   Price $149.95

This was the one I just got and you watched.
http://www.supercircuits.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=4250    Price $119.95

I use the MPV player from ION with a 1gig flash card.
http://www.supercircuits.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=4596      Price $279.95

  The setup will run about 400 bucks depending on the camera.

I then went to radio shack and made a 9v connector to power the camera.  Sooner or later I will hot wire it into the plane, since it will work on 12v DC.  They sell a holder for 8 AAs to power the camera but that was overkill.

I can't wait!

[mars01]

Believe it or not, to mount it, I just put a wire tie around the lense, then two through that one and around the top of the head set.  Crude, but works.

A note on the two cameras.  I liked the snake camera, but there wasn't anything to really grab onto to mount it and I don't think the field of view was as large and you cant change the lense.  I had to get some plastic snap on sunglasses, which I cut and taped to the pinhole so the sun wouldn't wash everything out.

For those reasons I decided to try the microlense camera.  It has some white balancing on the chip but it makes things dark rather than white out when looking directly at the sun.  I am going to try and add the sunglass stuff to it and see what happens.

[Morpheus]

dude are you off the flippin phone yet?!