I was shooting a real estate video for a friend who's a realtor and she also hired an RC helicopter guy to take some stills.
Now, being a camera guy and helicopter pilot I was very interested in this device and the images it took. The helicopter was battery powered and surprisingly quiet for all those blades spinning around.
There was no monitoring on this helicopter, just send it up and point and shoot. Then, they'd bring it back down and check the little Canon Powershot to see what they got. The lightweight copter bobbed like a cork in the wind and it would have been impossible to get any kind of usable video much less hold the horizon. Even just taking stills, the shooting ratio was about 25:1, they took about 125 shots to get 5 usable images and I don't think my friend ended up using a single one.
There's a bunch of these kind of helicopters on the market and some even have a monitoring solution but having seen the results without stabilization I think they're all pretty weak. But it sure was fun to watch them fly!
Now, being a camera guy and helicopter pilot I was very interested in this device and the images it took. The helicopter was battery powered and surprisingly quiet for all those blades spinning around.
There was no monitoring on this helicopter, just send it up and point and shoot. Then, they'd bring it back down and check the little Canon Powershot to see what they got. The lightweight copter bobbed like a cork in the wind and it would have been impossible to get any kind of usable video much less hold the horizon. Even just taking stills, the shooting ratio was about 25:1, they took about 125 shots to get 5 usable images and I don't think my friend ended up using a single one.
There's a bunch of these kind of helicopters on the market and some even have a monitoring solution but having seen the results without stabilization I think they're all pretty weak. But it sure was fun to watch them fly!
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