Jim Hefner submitted this photo and note: “I took a friend in Marco Island (KMKY) for a flight down the Keys from Key Largo past Marathon and the 7 Mile Bridge before landing at The Florida Keys Marathon International Airport (KMTH). This was after we departed KMTH heading north to Key Largo in my RV-6A.”
Jim adds: “This photo is a screenshot from a video in Insta360 Studio.”
You can see a four-minute video of the flight here or below.
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Thank you for that valuable information—especially for those of us who delight in capturing the beauty, freedom, and the excitement of aviation.
I would like to leave you with this quote from Elrey Borge Jeppesen: “There is a great difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.”
EPJ
Here is a photo of the pole mount. It has a 1/4 × 20 screw on the end that the bottom of the camera mounts to.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/sxAXah6C8tx3swMM9
Beautiful video!
That is gorgeous video! What exact camera was used and how exactly was it mounted?
Thanks on the video. The camera is an Insta360 X4 that shoots 8K video… it is 2 4K cameras in one and the software stitches the two videos together. The mount is a 36″ pole mount that I mounted to wingtip screws under the left wingtip. It sticks out about 2 feet in front of the wing. The cool thing about the Insta360 camera is that it hides a selfie stick or a pole mount, so it can show the entire plane and there is no mount showing in the video, so it looks like it is floating out in front of the plane. 360 cameras are great for aviation since you film the entire 360 while you fly and you get to pick the views you want to use in your video in the Insta360 Studio editor. Fixed mount cameras like GoPro are limited to whatever view is in front of the camera.