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  1. KAP Jasa

    Old school vs. Hi-Tech

    Friday easy read - about the subtle differences doing aerial photography with an old-school kite, or with a hi-tech drone. Article on Medium. With some aerial photos, of course! ;-)
  2. KAP Jasa

    Kite - that fully organic drone - as an archaeology tool :-)

    Well, we've found some strange circles in our kite aerial photos and decided to investigate ... And then many things happened: a rogue kite was flying alone, the circles were not what we thought they were, and a piece of ancient pottery was found. Did our kite really discover an Iron Age...
  3. KAP Jasa

    An article on aerial photography - from a kite

    There is an article on Medium I'd like to share with you: A View from a kite. It's about the hows and whys about kite aerial photography; how it compares with drones and other aerial photography platforms, some experience, info and tips. Hope you find it interesting ... ;-)
  4. KAP Jasa

    Aerial photos from an unusual drone ...

    :-) :-) :-) no, no wincher - just two persons, one pulling the kite down and he other reeling back the lline ...
  5. KAP Jasa

    Aerial photos from an unusual drone ...

    Wow ... thanks for this! :-) Yeah, extracting frames is painful and futile ... but on the other hand you can't do (good) videos with a kite - it just shakes and dances too much, and there is very limited control ... :-)
  6. KAP Jasa

    Aerial photos from an unusual drone ...

    Thank you! :) The 'equipment' (apart from the kites) is a rig called "Picavet" that holds the camera and is always in a horizontal position regardless of kite line swaying: (this is an older version of the rig; the new one has pan-and-tilt frame holding the camera) We use two cameras, a...
  7. KAP Jasa

    Aerial photos from an unusual drone ...

    thanks! :) yeah, we started kite aerial photography with an action cam too and were doing the same, extracting frames ... but even a very stable kite is shaking as hell compared to a software-controlled drone, so the videos were unusable and frames were lo-res, and we switched to a regular...
  8. KAP Jasa

    Aerial photos from an unusual drone ...

    Hi everyone! Here are some aerial photos taken with a little unusual "drone" - a kite :) This is intermittent lake Cerknica, Slovenia, now in the process of shrinking and disappearing. Shot with Nikon 1 J1 on a so called "french military" kite. Hope you like them ... ;)
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