For five years now I have been shooting almost exclusively with digital cameras. This works quite well for me. My various Digital Elphs have been compact, robust, and lightweight. They have also been relatively affordable, take many images per flight, and relieve me of expenses for film and developing. Were I to complain I [...]

I seem to be one a bit of a panorama jag these days and I think it relates to two specific shortcomings of my current digital KAP rig. My ‘go to’ rig these days is the Canon SD800is cradle. It is fun and convenient to fly. While I enjoy the camera’s relatively wide 28-mm equivalent [...]

With a warm Pacific front bearing down on Berkeley I stepped out for a couple of hours to play around with the new Nkion 8400 fisheye rig. There was so little windsign in the top of the Scenic Avenue palm trees that I almost turned back home. I decided instead to fly my Bults Dopero [...]

I have long admired Scott Haefner’s series of aerial QTVR bubble panoramas. Scott built on a techinique first described by Philippe Hurbain. Over the Winter Break I started playing with a Nikon 8400 and its companion FC-E9 fisheye lens. This weekend marked the completion of a bracket to carry it below my kites. I made [...]