Kamuela house with the grey roof

I post this really for El. She made a comment on one of my other images about that

Kamuela house with the grey roof. So this is the Kamuela house with the grey roof at

Kihi Kihi Place. Beautiful house but can't get a image of the front of the house without

going to the air. So I did. This was taken with my radio control helicopter and the

Sigma DP1.

 

Thanks for your time. Your comments are welcome.

That's the one, Hansen!!! Thank you very much! Fantastic idea to use the heli but how on earth you control the camera??? Thank you very much for the upload, I greatly appreciate. I'll come back to you to explain why this property is of particular interest to me. Thanks again for posting - have a nice day, El

I use an intervalometer to fire the shutter once every 6 seconds. That's about how long the DP1 needs to write the image to the card. I just aim the helicopter and I get a feel from experience on how far to stage the helicopter for framing the subject.

That's definitely a cheaper way then hiring a real helicopter but you have to be very confident to make it happen. It'll really be a mess for your D700 if it had crashed.

Hi Alec, yes it is definitely a "real" helicopter. It has every single moving part to lift up a camera. It is simply a "smaller" real helicopter. ;-)

As far as mess, I have put one of these miniature helicopter in the ocean and yes it rendered my D90 non-operable right away.;-)

For aerial stills, I use my Sigma DP-1 which is what I used for this image. The image quality is superb and the best part is that it only weighs 9 ounces.