FLYING MONKEY PHOTOGRAPHY-A LOW COST APPROACH
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| KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY FLYING MONKEY PHOTOGRAPHY-A LOW COST APPROACH |
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| I Started KAPing (Kite Aerial Photography) over a year ago after I encountered Chris Bentons KAP page while surfing the net. Photography has been one of my all time interests and his page put a new perspective on the hobby. Since I'm a poor college student I chose to take the low cost approach to KAPing and utilizing disposable cameras as the camera of choice.This Website is dedicated to just disposable KAPing. With fresh ideas in mind I set out to my local hobby store to round up the supplies along with a dethermalizing timer to trip the shutter. Much to my surprise they discontinued making derthermalizing timers. So with this setback my quest began to find an alternative solutions. I started looking at timers of all sorts and ended up finding a decent timer at Wal-Mart one late night. It is a Sunbeam brand analog 60 minute kitchen timer that only cost $5.99. After taking it apart down to its bare guts and making it camera worthy, attaching and building a camera cradle was the easy part. Below are pictures of my KAP rig and other equipment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. First I started out with your basic disposable camera, Timer, and a 6ft Delta I bought at Target | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Camera $8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6' Delta $10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sunbeam Timer $6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. For the construction of the KAP cradle I removed the timer from its shell, drilled a small hole in the moving mechanism that activates the bell, and mounted it on a plastic frame that I constructed off of the camera dimensions. I had to drill holes in the back of the timer in order to mount it. Basic physics comes into play to trip the camera shutter. As you can see it is a basic lever and fulcrum design. The spring in the timer has enough power to trip the shutter without having to use an additional spring or rubber band. The lever is made out of aluminum tubing with the shutter button being a cap screw. I used a paper clip to connect the tubing to the timer. With the exception of the timer and model sheet plastic, I bought everything at ACE Hardware (Cap screws, aluminum tubing, and small sheet metal screws holding the timer on) Total cost of the KAP rig with camera was about $22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 3. The finished product! This is what it looks like with the picavet suspension. I used hollow model railroad square tubing for the cross. Most local hobby stores have a rotating "caddy" with all sorts of odds and ends plastic stuff model railroaders use to scratch build with. The strap the picavet connects to is 1.5mm 3/4" aluminium held on with a 1" x 1/8" bolt and wingnut (need 2 of these, 1 for the right side) These along with the 1/2" eyelets all came from ACE Hardware. The camera in the cradle is a Walgreens studio 35 camera I got for $10. Its quality is the same as any disposable camera, but if you take it back to them for developing they'll refill it with 400 ISO film for free for the life of the camera! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| I Hope this website has helped you into the world of KAP as a low cost approach. One can easily get into KAPing for less than $40 and a little bit of creativity. Remember to sign my guestbook, or drop me an email! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| contact: ghostcat78@yahoo.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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