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comment by elizabeth
elizabeth  ·  3254 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 30, 2015

    The "I want to slap my existing gopro into an existing quad" market segment is kind of the worst spot in all of quadcopterdom.

I wonder why that is. My guess is that most amateur filmmakers would jump on exactly this kind of drone. Are there technical limitations that make a cheap(ish) version of that impossible? I don't know much about this, is adding a 150g gopro to a quad too heavy? Sure, you won't get any camera movement but you got more control than taping your gopro to a kite...

Honestly tho, I watch a lot of youtube and 10 minutes drone videos are incredibly boring. I've never made it to the end of a single one. Maybe a 3h compilation over a good playlist to put on at a party would be a different story.





kleinbl00  ·  3254 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because if you have the first inkling of what you're doing, you recognize that a quadcopter gives you x,y,z... and for cinematography, you need x,y,z,P,T,Z,F (pan, tilt, zoom, focus). And if you don't care, you'll still recognize that more than 3/4ths of the weight of a GoPro is in its survivability. You can simplify the hell out of things by going with a lightweight camera built into the drone itself.

The majority of the commercial drone work being done right now is realtor shots.