Astrocam
The Estes Astrocam is the single stage rocket with 110 single shot film camera. These are from a couple hundred feet up.
Dairyville, California Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cineroc
The Estes Cineroc (posed with Joey P) is the classic two stage-lifted super 8 motion picture film camera payload. Made only briefly in the early 1970’s, it shoots about 25 seconds of real film through a lens looking back down between the fins as the rocket rises to about 500 feet and over to parachute deployment.
2002 Black Rock Desert, Nevada
Here’s several launches, hand-processed super 8 plus X
Design
Here are some custom rockets, as well as hacked kits (modifying an off-the-shelf kit). The Mustard Rocket is from a real countertop squirt bottle. The Polka Dot Rocs are modified Quarks with a helicopter recovery deployed by an ejected engine wire.
Below, the Cineroc and Da Commisar (That would be the late Da Commisar).
