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Maybe I should get one of these pro film making ones and then tell her the price. Would make an original anniversary present..
Don't forget to film it
Poll: ** DRONES: WHO HAS ONE, WHO WANTS ONE? **
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Don't forget to film it
Maybe I should get one of these pro film making ones and then tell her the price. Would make an original anniversary present.
You must enjoy hospital food.
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I've got a Blade 350 which I've flown a few times. just don't seem to find the time to fly it more often.
I'd much rather have a 7of9.
I'd much rather have a 7of9.
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Do you even know what you're talking about? The BBC are one of our clients.
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One of who's clients?
What does that have to do with Rilots S900?
My point was that you can't compare people buying relatively inexpensive drones for their personal enjoyment to a company like the BBC contracting out or hiring themselves the more expensive drones and professional camera equipment to produce shots for commercial use.
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One of our clients. I operate an aerial imagery company.
Rilot's S900 is up for the job of most broadcast requirements. In fact I've seen more GoPro's on TV (so likely a Phantom or other small "toy" quad) than anything higher quality. The GH4 is probably one of the most used due to 4K in a small package and that can be carried by a huge number of UAVs.
And expensive tech does not automatically equal toy.
Yeh they are not toys
I've only flown the DJI F450 with the fatshark goggles a few times, mostly line of sight, but the 250 racing quad I like to fly FPV.
I still wouldn't choose to go down the route of a prebuilt one, but that's just me personally, if something happens I would want to know how it goes back together.
Its leaning towards autumn now and the F450 I have had some good hours flying time with through its modes (atti, gps).
The 250 Quad iv also loved more because its incredibly fun to fly, fast and agile but takes some practise if you take it in to rate mode, thanks to the help of some forum members in here over the summer I have stuck some flying hours in on the 250 and tuned it in good, thats another thing, the flight controllers on the racing ones I like as you can fine tune the settings to give it that dialled in feeling in full rate mode using the Naze 32 flight controller board and cleanflight software.
The DJI F450 also has a GPS Naza V2 flight controller onboard.
My plans for this winter is to buy another cheap VTX and camera for the F450 and get FPV mounted on that so its on both, and possibly sort out a perm mobius camera mount for the DJI
Any work I do will be documented in the Multi-rotor thread on the forums. Been a bit slow recently due to work and exams
I've only flown the DJI F450 with the fatshark goggles a few times, mostly line of sight, but the 250 racing quad I like to fly FPV.
I still wouldn't choose to go down the route of a prebuilt one, but that's just me personally, if something happens I would want to know how it goes back together.
Its leaning towards autumn now and the F450 I have had some good hours flying time with through its modes (atti, gps).
The 250 Quad iv also loved more because its incredibly fun to fly, fast and agile but takes some practise if you take it in to rate mode, thanks to the help of some forum members in here over the summer I have stuck some flying hours in on the 250 and tuned it in good, thats another thing, the flight controllers on the racing ones I like as you can fine tune the settings to give it that dialled in feeling in full rate mode using the Naze 32 flight controller board and cleanflight software.
The DJI F450 also has a GPS Naza V2 flight controller onboard.
My plans for this winter is to buy another cheap VTX and camera for the F450 and get FPV mounted on that so its on both, and possibly sort out a perm mobius camera mount for the DJI
Any work I do will be documented in the Multi-rotor thread on the forums. Been a bit slow recently due to work and exams
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I've heard that drones can be deadly, therefore I do not want one.
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I want a swarm of drones to follow me around so that I look like some kind of sci-fi villain.
thats what my neighbours 18 daughter who sunbathes topless says too
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I got a £37 syma 5xc-1 or something. Its a great "toy" that I am not too fussed about breaking or losing (which is lucky...). It is a medium sized quadcopter (I'm not keen on calling them drones) and has cheap extra batteries and spares. Its range is pretty crap but that means I can fly in smaller spaces. It has a mediocre 720p camera which is nice for catching the crashes. It's a good introduction to quadcopter flying.
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WOW that is amazing! never really took any interest in drones before, but they are definitely something to look at! just wow...
I want one.
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Well, I would advise anyone who's not going to use it commercially or wouldn't really enjoy building one to avoid. My friend wanted to get one to 'make the most' of his GoPro but I said he'd probably use it a dozen times and that's it.
Plus as soon as you stick a camera on it comes with a myriad of restrictions which voids of it a lot of imaginable uses.
I'll explain my vote as i'm one of them.
The cheap ones are generally completely crap, no stabilising functions, gps etc. no fly by video, no camera at all in most cases - just not worth bothering with.
By the time I get to looking at stuff that would maintain my interest for more than a week, you're suddenly talking £500+ (or maybe a bit less if self built but needing much more time invested) and that sort of figure is just beyond 'ooh that'd be cool' sort of spending for me.
Anything that's likely to appear on the OcUK store is either going to be too crap for me to be interested, or too expensive, as much as I might want one in general.
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If I had any interest and did get one. Sods law they'll bring in some silly law that means you can only fly them at chest height or something silly for heath and safety reason. Plus I'd end up crashing it. Maybe I'll try the simulator.
http://blog.oscarliang.net/free-quadcopter-simulator-drone-multirotor-trainer/
http://blog.oscarliang.net/free-quadcopter-simulator-drone-multirotor-trainer/
A lot of consumer grade stuff is used professionally though.
BBC are known to use GoPros and Canon 5Ds.
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I had tricopter last year, but it was boring as hell to fly, so it's gathered dust since.
I'm used to flying 3d helicopters and this was far from that. I also have no interst in aerial photography.
But, with the price of fpv gear being so low these days, I decided to give a 250 racer a go. Still dead easy to fly, even in rate mode, but more interesting flying first person.
That got a few other heli pilots at the club interested and one of them just got a Kylin 250 racer which is ballistic on 4s. Other are looking to get one too, so we should be able to race soon.
I'm used to flying 3d helicopters and this was far from that. I also have no interst in aerial photography.
But, with the price of fpv gear being so low these days, I decided to give a 250 racer a go. Still dead easy to fly, even in rate mode, but more interesting flying first person.
That got a few other heli pilots at the club interested and one of them just got a Kylin 250 racer which is ballistic on 4s. Other are looking to get one too, so we should be able to race soon.