Rosie at a History and Heritage Day with seven cameras.
Left to right:
Pentax WG1 GPS with Rosie's full kite aerial photography kit in a bag
Two Flir PathFindIR thermal imagers (one exposed and one in a sandwich box)
Sony Nex 5 with 16mm, F2.8 lens
Fuji F30 converted for near IR
Fuji F5600 converted for near [IR+UV]
Fuji F20 near UV, unconverted
http://www.armadale.org.uk/historyheritageday.htm
Camera number eight in a showcase (Pentax W60)
The Nex 5 (or cheaper 3) is one of the cheapest ways of having a reasonably priced 24mm (35mm camera equivalent) wide angle lens for an APS sensor.
The WG1 is conveniently light, rugged, waterproof and has an interval timer.
The thermal cameras are amongst the cheapest 320x240 pixel imagers available.
The other cameras were older ones that were appropriately sensitive for conversion, but UV is heavily absorbed by the lenses.
The W60 is just an older version of the WP1.
We prefer cameras with lenses that have no external moving parts, unlike the F20 and F30.
As a
charitable trust we try to go for the most cost-effective options.