Thanks, Bill. That is good information, and gives me a lot t0 think about.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 9:54 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:38 PM Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Does anyone on the list use a drone for photography. If so, shat do you > > have, how do you use it and what do you recommend? > > > Hi Dan, I occasionally fly a DJI Phantom 3 drone. It’s a small quadcopter > with a fairly small Sony backlit sensor and a pretty wide angle lens. It > isn’t a fisheye, but it’s close. They do well as a flying big landscape > camera. Mine is 12Mp. > Think point and shoot with wings. > They are limited by their small size. They aren’t stable enough for a long > lens and can’t haul a bigger camera into the air. They are stupidly easy to > fly, and will generally return to home automatically if it senses the need. > Try to make your outward flight into the wind. That way the plane won’t > have to fight the wind coming home. > From a photography perspective, all of the Phantom class copters will have > about the same abilities, the limitation being the small size. > > > I think there isn’t much in between Phantom sized and big load carrying > machines. The big ones, such as the DJI 1000 series can carry a full sized > DSLR into the air. The price of admission is north of 10 grand. They can be > upwards of 2 meters tip to tip, and have 8 rotors. They have the advantage, > photographically, of being able to carry a bigger payload. Another > advantage ir motor redundancy. If a quadcopter loses a motor, it crashes. > If an octocopter loses one, the pilot should probably turn for home, but > even if two motors go down, the machine will probably make it home. > > As more and more areas become no fly zones, it is getting harder and harder > to fly them at all, much less legally. The machines know where they are and > have regions prorammned in where they won’t fly. > It’s possible to thwart this technology, which is why they show up beside > airliners from time to time. > > Bill > > > > > > TIA, Dan > > > > Dan Matyola > > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
