Parrot AR Drone 2.0
Discussion
Hi,
Not sure if this belongs here, or in gadgets, but i was wondering if anyone has any experience of these quadcopters and whether the footage would be good for filming aerial footage of cars and events.
I understand they have a short battery life, but i guess this could be sorted by buying some extra battery packs.
The next step up would appear to work out at about £1000 which feels like too much for just the odd bit of video footage.
Any advice or opinions would be great
Many thanks
Not sure if this belongs here, or in gadgets, but i was wondering if anyone has any experience of these quadcopters and whether the footage would be good for filming aerial footage of cars and events.
I understand they have a short battery life, but i guess this could be sorted by buying some extra battery packs.
The next step up would appear to work out at about £1000 which feels like too much for just the odd bit of video footage.
Any advice or opinions would be great
Many thanks
Hope I can help.... I've got one, not really used it enough but slightly underwhelmed by it.
It is a great fun gadget, however it is very light and needs pretty still weather, the camera is not great quality, fun yes but far from commercial quality, I bought a go pro hero3 black to attach to it, along with a bespoke mount and a battery delete cable, only hitch is the battery delete cable does not work with the black version....
Drone doesn't really have enough power to lift the gopro, might do if I butcher the drone bodywork and cut chunks out, but not reached that stage yet. None of this is the drones fault, it wasn't designed to attach a gopro to!
I want to use it to do videos of some of our venues and properties, works well inside ( big spaces!) and will do the job hopefully outside and be a different marketing slant, in fact I've just given it to one of my colleagues to go and master.
I suppose you could sum it up by the fact that he has now got it but I want it back at the end of next week!
It is a great fun gadget, however it is very light and needs pretty still weather, the camera is not great quality, fun yes but far from commercial quality, I bought a go pro hero3 black to attach to it, along with a bespoke mount and a battery delete cable, only hitch is the battery delete cable does not work with the black version....
Drone doesn't really have enough power to lift the gopro, might do if I butcher the drone bodywork and cut chunks out, but not reached that stage yet. None of this is the drones fault, it wasn't designed to attach a gopro to!
I want to use it to do videos of some of our venues and properties, works well inside ( big spaces!) and will do the job hopefully outside and be a different marketing slant, in fact I've just given it to one of my colleagues to go and master.
I suppose you could sum it up by the fact that he has now got it but I want it back at the end of next week!
As said above, the ar drone 2 is good fun, but only really in still conditions. I took this short video with the ar drone 2 standard camera but will be trying it with the GoPro camera on it when I have time, as the quality of the GoPro is far better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62RLUo13c4&sns...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62RLUo13c4&sns...
And here is some far less professional video that I did thus morning..., http://youtu.be/AlvAGMiKASM
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