Thursday, December 4, 2014

Drones for the Holidays: Aerial Video + Photo for Every Budget + Skill Level

 

There is one product out there that has completely revolutionized the way we think about videography and photography, more so than any other in the last five years, and it’s not even made by a camera company. The multi-rotor, AKA “UAV” (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), AKA “drone,” has emerged from seemingly nowhere and captured everyone's imagination. The child in us loves to see machines fly. The nerd in us loves to learn how these things fly. The artist in us loves to imagine what sorts of amazing shots we could get if we only had a camera that could fly.

Multi-rotors are remote-controlled model aircraft that have more than two spinning blades. There are tri-copters, quad-copters, hexa-copters, octo-copters, and about any other kind of ’copter you can think of out there. What that amounts to, for photographers, is a very stable platform that can lift payloads such as cameras and gimbals (an essential tool that stabilizes the attached camera).

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4 comments:

  1. They tend to be noisy but I can see a lot of uses in recon and battlefield applications

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  2. Excellent article and good timing. I've had one of these on my mind for a while and didn't know where to start. The link actually convinced me not to get one - I'd have to get two, one to learn on and crash and another for use once that painful phase is over. Then there's the time sink climbing the learning curve and staying in practice. I'm thinking my limited resources are better placed elsewhere.

    Daniel

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    1. I'm thinking my limited resources are better placed elsewhere.

      May well be. B&H has a huge store and usually beats everyone's prices on cameras and more. Ive bought from them and it is also where Oleg Volk buys his stuff.

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