Guide to Camera Payloads (Ebook version)

A How-To Guide For Building and Flying Camera Payloads

by Ray R. Dunakin III

Summary:

• 44 pages
• Color cover w/ B&W illustrations
• 74 photos and diagrams
• ISBN 978-1-7330818-0-1
• $5.99

 Description:

This book may seem horribly out of date since it spends most of the time describing how to adapt compact film cameras for flight. This includes building large payload bays and methods of mechanically and/or electrically triggering the cameras.

It's being re-issued because while the actual payloads being lofted are obsolete, the techniques of building sturdy payload bays for comparatively large, heavy instruments and methods of mechanically and/or electrically triggering them is still relevant. In fact, even more so with the recent rise of university-level programs using rocketry as a teaching tool

Contents:

Chapter 1 – Getting Started 

Chapter 2 – Camera Activation 

Chapter 3 – Super 8 Camera Payloads 

Chapter 4 – Box Construction 

Chapter 5 – Tubular Construction 

Chapter 6 – Building a 2.6” Camera Payload 

Chapter 7 – The Digital Age 

Index