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 [...]

About a year ago I acquired a new radio for controlling aerial camera cradles that I lift using kites. For the previous ten years I used an Airtronics Infinity 600, a programmable transmitter that dated from my RC sailplane days. While it was well time to update this 1991 vintage radio, my principal motivation for [...]

There has been of late an interesting thread on the KAP Discussion Page about ways to secure a camera cradle to its Picavet suspension. My camera cradles, as is often the case, have a vertical threaded rod rising from their center of gravity. This rod is typically attached to the center of Picavet suspension cross [...]