Kite Aerial Photography
by Michael Schernau
This page is about taking aerial pictures with a kite. I have read an article about
this in a model plane magazine decades ago, but had no suitable camera.
By chance I got a lightweight point-and-shoot camera, and decided to try it.
These pages describe my equipment and show some of my pictures.
Galleries
Links
There a quite a few web sites about KAP if you search on Yahoo or Google,
but my favorite one is certainly the one by
Charles C. Benton.
Camera Rig
I began with an Olympus Stylus point-and-shoot film camera and a HiTec remote control for air planes to point the camera and to press the shutter.
I have now moved to a digital camera: the Canon S200.
The equipment and shooting technique will be described later.
Kite
I made a Rokkaku with fiberglass spars and ripstop nylon from a plan found on
the internet. It needs at least 14 km/h winds to lift the camera rig.
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