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Megacam

 

The site

 

The Play field of Bagatelle is located in the 16° district of Paris city and is part of the Boulogne wood.

It offers a great opened area for various sports such as soccer, rugby, polo, kite or even R/C buddies ...

Some noticeable sites are located near the field as you'll see in the next views. Even the "Sacré Coeur" can be easily seen when flying from this place !

 

 

1st aerial shots

 

 

 

The hard wind forced me to shorten the flight but 5PM offered quite a good sunlight

Oly3 carried the Megacam easily without any modification and the shutter was remotely controlled by using the 4th channel of the Graupner MC14 transmitter. This setup allowed me to start the cam remotely when holding the plane ... I was surprised to hear the shutter beep at every gliding pass !

 

Next morning

 

I finally catched the Eiffel tower in my vision field the next morning !

The weather was also windy and didn't allow good shots as well

More unfortunely, the cold temp frozed the R3 batts and the cam hibernated after only 4 shots ...

Bad for an April session !

 

Sunday morning

 

At 9:00 am, the weather was just fine for an aerial session

(N-W)

This allowed me to take some clearer shots of La Defense buildings and the Puteaux bridge

(E)

This also let me take some better Eastern shots of the Bagatelle park and the Paris background

Eiffel tower (3.8km) and Montparnasse tower (6.5km) can be clearly seen

 

(N-E)

La Fayette tower (2.9km) marks the Maillot Door And Montmartre hill exposes its Sacré Coeur (7.2km)

Eiffel Tower & Montparnasse Tower (E)

 

 

 

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