I did my first helicopter shoot this weekend with a hd110 - all in all went pretty well although some dedicated stabilisation would have been great (I used a foam pillow since I couldn´t get my hands on a gyro). The physical size of the camera was also a bit problematic, I´m not sure how much more jittery a smaller camera would have been but sometimes the size of the camera limited the movement range pretty uncomfortably.

some photos here:

http://pelliculus.uttx.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=333

some lessons learned here:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showpost.php?p=745947&postcount=11

will post some footage as soon as it´s sorted and stabilised.

test video is up - stabilised in shake, cropped by about 15%.

http://www.unkreativ.at/julia/stabitest.mov

Hi Thomas,

Excellent job! How is the light sensivitivity on your shots? I can't seem to avoid drastic light & color fluctuations on my aeriels (not to mention split screen). I'm using an HD100. Also, what compression are you outputting to from Shake?

Thanks -
Jeremy

Thanks! I didn´t have much problems with brightness levels. Since we were only going to film ground objects at a fairly steep angle I set wb and filters before we took off. Whenever sky was visible there were blowouts of course, but since that wasn´t the goal it didn´t matter.
The sky was overcast, which i think helped in providing uniform brighness.

I´ve seen a lot of info about split screen here, but apart from one shoot with very dark environments I´ve never been plagued by it.

Shake in and output was apple intermediate codec - I usually capture .m2t and then transcode to AIC for editing.