My drone photography is improving...

[webbie]

BB and some others remember the grainy videos from last november!

I'm slowing stepping up in the world....

 

[schlot]

Awesome! What kind of set up do you have?

 

[webbie]

Awesome! What kind of set up do you have?

This is a cheapo setup of a $90 quadcopter and $80 camera - but it takes some nice pics. I took these today...
Cam is here:
http://droneflyers.com/talk/threads...tandard-in-small-quality-r-c-sports-cams.178/

Quad is new WL Toys v262 -
http://www.banggood.com/WLtoys-V262-2_4G-4CH-6-Axis-RC-Quadcopter-RTF-p-77720.html

 

[schlot]

Impressive. What kind of height do you go up to routinely?

Do you run the camera as a video than capture pictures from the video?

That second link doesn't seem to work.

 

[webbie]

I don't have an altimeter, but I've probably kept this one under 200 feet.

The cam has lots of settings which can be changed by plugging it into a computer or android tablet. One setting has the cam taking a still pic every X seconds. That's the setting I favor right now because video takes too much time to properly edit and you have to take it in very light winds or there will be too much movement. It's better to dig out 5 good stills out of 100...IMHO.

The other link is to a chinese site - maybe your PC or network doesn't allow it.

 

[schlot]

Thanks. Yes...my computer and I have a hard time understanding English let alone Chinese.

 

[BrotherBart]

That's funny. That is the same place I bought our Android tablets. Chinese site but the tablets shipped from Albuquerque.

 

[firefighterjake]

My buddy just ran a Spartan race in Massachusetts this past weekend and he said there was a fellow there with one of these shooting video from the sky.

 

[maverick06]

Nice shots! Its a neat perspective getting shots from up high. I have a small camera on a plane of mine. Its a biplane with floats on it. I was flying it off of lake while on vacation. The pictures have 3 perspectived, off the side (tip of the yellow wing), looking back (can see the horz stabilizer), and looking forward (see the wing and Snoopy with the red scarf).