Re: OT: Photography Drone

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Thanks Alan.

Dan Matyola
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On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote:

> Dan
>
> The chap I stayed with in Yorkshire on my recent trip had one of these:
>
> https://www.dji.com/mavic
>
> He calls it "Mavis" & only flies in unpopulated, rural areas.
>
> It cost £1000 and, IMHO, was quite amazing. He attended a 3 day training
> course to get his licence.
>
> Alan C
>
> -Original Message- From: Daniel J. Matyola
> Sent: 3 December, 2017 9:37 PM
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> Subject: OT: Photography Drone
>
>
> 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?
>
> TIA, Dan
>
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Re: OT: Photography Drone

[Alan C]

Dan

The chap I stayed with in Yorkshire on my recent trip had one of these:

https://www.dji.com/mavic

He calls it "Mavis" & only flies in unpopulated, rural areas.

It cost £1000 and, IMHO, was quite amazing. He attended a 3 day training 
course to get his licence.


Alan C

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From: Daniel J. Matyola

Sent: 3 December, 2017 9:37 PM
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Subject: OT: Photography Drone

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?

TIA, Dan

Dan Matyola
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Re: OT: Photography Drone

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Thanks, Bill.  That is good information, and gives me a lot t0 think about.


Dan Matyola
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On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 9:54 PM, William Robb 
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:38 PM Daniel J. Matyola 
> 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
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Re: OT: Photography Drone

[P. J. Alling]

Forget drones, the future is hot air balloons.


On 12/3/2017 2:37 PM, Daniel J. Matyola 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?

TIA, Dan

Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola


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Re: OT: Photography Drone

[William Robb]

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:38 PM Daniel J. Matyola 
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


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Re: OT: Photography Drone

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Thanks, Bob and Mark!


Dan Matyola
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On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Henk Terhell  wrote:

> Dan, I have no experience at all, but today I watched the latest vlog on
> YouTube of Adam Gibbs talking about his drones:
> https://youtu.be/28X6vetoVV8
> I like to watch his videos.
>
> Henk
>
> Op 2017-12-03 om 20:37 schreef Daniel J. Matyola:
>
> 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?
>>
>> TIA, Dan
>>
>> Dan Matyola
>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
>>
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Re: OT: Photography Drone

[Henk Terhell]

Dan, I have no experience at all, but today I watched the latest vlog on 
YouTube of Adam Gibbs talking about his drones:

https://youtu.be/28X6vetoVV8
I like to watch his videos.

Henk

Op 2017-12-03 om 20:37 schreef Daniel J. Matyola:

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?

TIA, Dan

Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola



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Re: OT: Photography Drone

[Bob W-PDML]

I do not use a drone, but I recently bought a DJI Osmo Mobile gimbal so I could 
learn to shoot movies on my iPhone.

DJI are one of the leading drone makers; I think the gimbal is essentially a 
by-product of their drone videography. Based on my still limited but good 
experience with the gimbal I'd certainly put DJI first in the list of 
candidates if I were in the market for a drone.
https://www.dji.com/

Lower down the market I'd also look at a French company called Parrot.
https://www.parrot.com/uk/drones#Hightlight

B

On 3 Dec 2017, at 19:38, Daniel J. Matyola 
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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?

TIA, Dan

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OT: Photography Drone

[Daniel J. Matyola]

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?

TIA, Dan

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