Cameras

Asked around to see if anyone had a camera they didnt want any more.

Someone found this for us:

Its a 2Mp camera from a good while ago, with only a few drawbacks...

it doesnt seem to work & it weighs about 650g.  Might take it apart and see if there is anything useful we can harvest from it.

Looking at another balloon website, it was talking about the Canon A490 :

Only weighs 170g

& I see that it is one of the Canon cameras that you can hack with the Canon Hack Development Kit
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Seems you can program things like time lapse or 1 photo every 30 sec, just by adding a script to the cameras SD card

So I ordered one from ebay :)