Discharge the flash capacitor before doing any work on circuitry!
Kite aerial photography (KAP) is a fun hobby for shots, so you can only take one picture engineers and artists alike, and the resulting im- per launch. ages can be beautiful. However, one unlucky gust Fortunately, there are digital equivalents that can send your camera tumbling to the ground. use electronic switches and need no winding. I That’s why disposable cameras are a good choice use the Dakota Digital PV2; it’s $19 at Ritz for KAP beginners. Their low cost means there’s Camera ( ritzcamera.com) and Wolf Camera no big loss if they crash. They’re also lightweight, ( wolfcamera.com), with a $10, non-LCD version and most are pre-focused to infinity, which available in CVS stores. The PV2 holds 25 photos. means they’re good for taking scenery shots. As with a film disposable, you send it away for
Many KAP rigs have been designed to take processing. film-based disposable cameras aloft. (See MAKE Here’s how to make a kite-ready timer circuit Volume 01, for complete instructions on how to that triggers the PV2 once per minute, after an build your own kite aerial photography rig.) initial delay. You can also adapt it to trigger other, But film disposables require winding between non-disposable digicams.
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