Quad 'copter

Google "hobohome" and see what Gavin and Tracey do with a Quad Copter and Gopro. Some spectacular photos of where they have been.

A couple of friends of mine use them when we are out camping, definately a case of you get what you pay for. The cheaper ones, around the $500.00 mark seem not worth the effort to me. They get blown away by any breeze above about 10km an hour. Which makes them difficult to control.

On the other hand the 1K plus units are just awesome.

Peter

Try looking at the phantom 2 from djr. there are two versions without gopro at about $900 or the one with built in camera and fpv goggles about $1400-. They have built in gps for it to automatically land back where it took off from should anything start to go wrong. A mate of mine has one with a 2 axis gimble that he fly do do competition photograpy at our local camera club
worth a look garry

Absolutely.
Go for it.
It's what every grey nomad/camper needs to complete the mobile home furnishings.

Alongside the cappuccino maker and the bread maker.

OH quad copters are a wonderfull thing.....I don't own one or play with one but I know those that do.

They tell me they are far easier to fly than more or less conventional helcopter designs.......but they still need practice and a steady hand.

An egineer friend round the corner is a keen radio controll enthusiats as are a couple of his sons.....they have sheds full of planes and a half a dozen quad copters both shop baught and home built...but the smaller ones are only viable indoors.

I do a little work with one of the OB companies, and one of their guys owns and operates bigger stuff ligitamately refeered to as drones as camera platforms.

The machines that are capable of holding their own even in the slightest breese are seriouly expensive..and they are not small.

It all comes down to power and size...you need both to carry a payload ( camera) and to deal with wind.

OH and if you get one that is big enough to hold its own outdoors, the aviation authorities want to know about it.

The OB company mentioned hired one for an event a couple of weeks ago....talking with the guys they reconed the paperwork involved was unreal...then the event organisers refuesed to allow it to be used because it was too noisy.....electric not combustion powered.

Yeh I don't thing the idea will..um..fly.

cheers

I don't know about play, but I've had half a dozen times in the last month I could have used one for general duties in a building company to have a squizz at things on roofs etc. There's a big future for these things right up until devos start using them to spy on people.

Bugger you Pop (LoL) it looks like your post is going to cause me to spend in the vacinity of $2k on a Tali H500. After reading your post I have been looking and looking into these and convinced myself I need one for a whole new angle on photography

this might be in store for Australia as well:

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