Make: Online : RC helicopter shoots steadycam like photos from the air

RC helicopter shoots steadycam like photos from the air

Here's some amazing video of the new "Draganflyer X6 UAV RC" helicopter that can be rigged up to shoot professional quality aerial video and take digital photographs.

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Posted by: Tommy on August 28, 2008 at 6:03 AM

Neat, but bad commercial...

Let's see, what should we pack our promo video with? Lots of swoopy onboard video?

Nah. Lets have tons of shots of the gizmo itself and a few short clips of fairly static video.

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Posted by: Pete Pilot on August 28, 2008 at 6:03 AM

Nice rig!

Very nice rig! I would like to see a cage around the props though, to avoid injury. Makes the craft less vulnerable to foreign object damage too.

Can't find the maximum airtime, but I can see a lot of useful jobs for this one!

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Posted by: MarkP on August 28, 2008 at 9:13 AM

What happened to the "steady"?

More like "jouncy-cam". That might be useful for another "Bourne" movie, but it's hardly steady.

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Posted by: Tim on August 28, 2008 at 9:35 AM

How much?

I'll bet this costs an arm and a leg. The site sells it as "cheaper than having to rent a plane for every shoot".

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Posted by: VB on August 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM

Still shots are always steady

Which part of this movie was steady?
Was this a commercial?

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Posted by: Anonymous on August 28, 2008 at 5:21 PM

Hmmm...small battery pod and six motors going all the time. I wonder what the flight duration is?

Why do you always have grinding guitar soundtracks with R/C helicopter promos? They never sound like that in real life!

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