Drone photography

alanrockwood · Nov 15, 2015

I'm not sure if this should go here or in an equipment section.

Has anyone here tried drone photography? What did you think of it?

Sirius Glass · Nov 15, 2015

Not for me. I am retired and I have enough expensive sand boxes to play in: skiing, offroading [serious rock crawling ala Moab Utah, 35mm photography, MF photography, LF photography, a black & white and color darkroom, and cordless bungee jumping.

Terry Christian · Nov 15, 2015

How do you trigger the shutter of a film camera when it's mounted to a drone?

Sirius Glass · Nov 15, 2015

Radio control

Old-N-Feeble · Nov 15, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EdQu5ZFYfg

Watch in HD!!

480sparky · Nov 15, 2015

Terry Christian said:
How do you trigger the shutter of a film camera when it's mounted to a drone?

Same way it was done 100 years ago when film cameras were stuck onto the bottoms of hot air balloons.

Timer release.

Sirius Glass · Nov 15, 2015

The drones have a view finder so that you can see what the view is when you use the radio controlled shutter release.

AgX · Nov 15, 2015

I designed a Large Format helicopter-based ground video-controlled camera system in the 90s.

Intended as alternative to manned-aircraft aerial photography.

Mick Fagan · Nov 15, 2015

AgX said:
I designed a Large Format helicopter-based ground video-controlled camera system in the 90s.

Interesting, did it ever get off the ground?

Serious question.

Mick.

AgX · Nov 15, 2015

Developing costs for the custom made helicopter and all the shebang on the ground made photography still expensive. Well, large format anyway...

Drone photographers of today typically do not care about any safety issues. Thus in Germany likely legislation will come especially for (photo)drones to restrict them flying.

mrred · Nov 15, 2015

I would be one of those that would like to see them all grounded. They are not safe when they fall out of the sky and are a large violator of privacy. Just because you can afford one should not be the only criteria to be able to use one.

Sirius Glass · Nov 15, 2015

Old-N-Feeble · Nov 15, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
The drones have a view finder so that you can see what the view is when you use the radio controlled shutter release.

Only those with FPV have that... oh what FUN!!

Old-N-Feeble · Nov 15, 2015

mrred said:
I would be one of those that would like to see them all grounded. They are not safe when they fall out of the sky and are a large violator of privacy. Just because you can afford one should not be the only criteria to be able to use one.

They can be made relatively VERY safe but most systems don't have those features.

bobwysiwyg · Nov 15, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
Not for me. I am retired and I have enough expensive sand boxes to play in: skiing, offroading [serious rock crawling ala Moab Utah, 35mm photography, MF photography, LF photography, a black & white and color darkroom, and cordless bungee jumping.

Just curious, what's "cordless" bungee jumping??

Sirius Glass · Nov 15, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
Not for me. I am retired and I have enough expensive sand boxes to play in: skiing, offroading [serious rock crawling ala Moab Utah, 35mm photography, MF photography, LF photography, a black & white and color darkroom, and cordless bungee jumping.

bobwysiwyg said:
Just curious, what's "cordless" bungee jumping??

It is the same a bungee jumping but without the heavy and bulky equipment. One can make a great impact doing cordless bungee jumping. One can also get great coverage doing cordless bungee jumping. I want to break the record which is only a one time jump.

ic-racer · Nov 15, 2015

I always wanted a Camroc. Unless you are going to make something yourself, I don't know of any contemporary quadracopter that comes with a film camera.

David A. Goldfarb · Nov 15, 2015

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/dr-julius-neubronners-miniature-pigeon-camera/

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alanrockwood · Nov 16, 2015

To me drone photography looks like it could be fun but expensive. Legal issues might also raise their ugly heads.

AgX · Nov 16, 2015

mrred said:
They are not safe when they fall out of the sky and are a large violator of privacy.

There was so much upheaval in Germany about Google Streetview that further photographing and publishing was cancelled by Google.
Strange enough I did not hear criticism on their aerial views. Though in cases their resolution is so high that breaking of privacy can be an issue.

benjiboy · Nov 16, 2015

I can't think of a more frightening hazard to commercial aviation than the unrestricted and unregulated flight of private drones.

bobwysiwyg · Nov 16, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
.. I want to break the record which is only a one time jump.

As I suspected.

mrred · Nov 16, 2015

Old-N-Feeble said:
They can be made relatively VERY safe but most systems don't have those features.

I am more concerned with privacy issues. If you were to point a camera into my windows, I have legal options. When you fly over my home I do not. What we need is affordable emp devices or at least scramblers to disable these devices. Perhaps the legal right to shoot them down? And yes, I am serious.

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480sparky · Nov 16, 2015

AgX said:
Developing costs for the custom made helicopter and all the shebang on the ground made photography still expensive. Well, large format anyway...

Drone photographers of today typically do not care about any safety issues. Thus in Germany likely legislation will come especially for (photo)drones to restrict them flying.

Do you lump all photographers together as perverts, terrorists and pedophiles, too?

If drone users are so careless about safety, perhaps you could provide evidence about all the injuries they're causing?

mrred · Nov 16, 2015

If a rock falls from the sky and doesn't hurt anybody.....does that mean it's not a safety hazard? Assuming you have the intelligence to operate a camera we should correctly assume you can see the problem. Or maybe we assumed too much.

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