My son would like to launch a rocket with a camera and take picture at apogee

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Any links to resources for this? It's for an engineering project at school. He has access to mid power through Lvl. 2 HPR (also known as Dad:)). I'm not sure what the project parameters are so I'm looking for pretty much anything. Thanks!
 
simplest is to tape a 'keyfob' video camera to the side of a rocket (roughly 1.6" or larger diameter) and turn it on shortly before launch. if one wanted to take a single frame near apogee. then I would imagine that could use the drogue backup channel from a dual deploy altimeter to trigger the camera. have fun and good luck,
Rex
 
You could always buy (and modify) an Estes Snapshot, or Estes Astrocam 110, or the very old, rare (and expensive) Estes Camroc. Or just launch just about any rocket with a keyfob (808 #16) camera taped to the side.

I'm working on a digital version of the Cineroc (I call it the CinerocDV). The original was a Super 8 movie camera.
 
As Rex says, most keyfob video cameras shoot video up to apogee and a single frame would do it.

The key is orienting the camera lens so it's pointing down. I had an
original old school Camroc and got several shots aimed straight up in the air.

So Camroc flights always recommended extra-long delays to make sure the rocket was pointing straight down at ejection and shutter release.
 
JStarStar said:
As Rex says, most keyfob video cameras shoot video up to apogee and a single frame would do it.
Click to expand...

Agreed, this is the easiest way to do it. This frame was pulled from a Mobius camera shooting 1080p HD. If you need a larger image you could step up to a 4K camera.

apogee.jpg
 

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