SlowApproach wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 11:00 pm
I've done a lot of interfacing cameras (especially FLIR, Canon, Sony & Phase One) & other payloads to a multitude of single-board computers specifically for aerial use (In fact, it's one of my specialties
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Forget about fiddling with proprietary DJI cameras to work with non-DJI stuff. It's not worth the endless required workarounds and hassles - which will usually cost more than bargained for. You would probably be better off with other makes (Any camera that has (an electronic) remote shutter control can do. Then just needs the appropriate signal conditioning/converting interface cable (which contains a bit of inline electronics)
For airborne camera control (via normally-UAV autopilot hardware but used in/with a manned microlight) you can use Arduino, Raspberry Pi 2, 3 or 4, or even a Pixhawk. A nice hardware/software combo to use would typically be the ArduPilot flight stack on Raspberry Pi with Navio. (Navio turns the Raspberry Pi board into a flight controller)
Depending on your requirements (& of course, budget) you can incorporate a reasonably inexpensive 3-axis universal stabilising gimbal (there are some around) or just a fixed mount for the camera.
For ground station (or in-cabin) software (to set/change a camera control flight plan into your autopilot-turned-purely-camera controller) you can use Michael Oborne's (free) Mission Planner on a laptop. You can set the camera to trigger at intervals or at waypoints you fly over, or whenever you want, ad-hoc. Cable-based (or wireless) telemetry from the autopilot will even show your track in real-time.
Or you can just have a simple in-cabin start & stop shutter trigger button connected. IOW, many proven working variations & possibilities abound. All obviously just depends on time & what you want (or not) to pay
PS: I'm heavily snowed under with big projects at present so not around much but you're welcome to drop me a PM to discuss - if you can tolerate some possibly delayed responses.
