Friday, 26 October 2018

Should I get a Drone

Cheap Drone
I've been thinking about getting a drone to take some footage of my motocamping adventures. Something like a DJI Spark would be awesome but it wouldn't take 360° footage so I couldn't use it for both the videos that I plan to make of each trip. 
I then started thinking that really any cheap drone that can carry my Insta360 One camera underneath would probably do the job. The gyroscopic stabilisation of the Insta360 One is pretty awesome so should be able to handle almost any drone. Understandably the battery life of the drone would probably be reduced by carrying the camera but it is pretty light and I'd only really need it to work for a few minutes at a time.
I've found a couple of cheap drones that might be worth looking into, hopefully I can find some reviews on YouTube to help me make a decision but at the end of the day I wouldn't be expecting too much from them, I'd just need to find a way to mount a 1/4 inch thread bolt on the under side of the drone that I could screw the camera into. Also the drone would need to be pretty small so I could easily carry it on the bike with the rest of my kit.
Here's a video of someone putting an Insta360 One on a DJI Mavic Air so at least I know it is possible to do and the footage looks ok even with the drone being visible above it at times. But that's an expensive drone and there is no chance I'd be able to get that just now.

 

Bomber
am I getting ahead of myself?

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