{"id":25210,"date":"2013-10-14T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=25210"},"modified":"2014-03-17T22:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T05:59:34","slug":"quadcopter-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2013\/10\/14\/quadcopter-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadcopter imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stunning technology.<\/i><\/p>\n

Quadcopter technology is becoming both reliable and inexpensive.<\/p>\n

Checkout this stunning video of the Niagara Falls:<\/p>\n

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\nClick the image for the video.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Be sure to watch it in HD. It’s breathtaking.<\/p>\n

The artist used a Phantom Quadcopter (Amazon<\/a> has it for $479) and a Black Magic Hero3 camera. <\/p>\n

The Phantom uses GPS positioning technology and has a maximum yaw velocity of 200 degrees a second, meaning it can spin a full circle in under two seconds. Maximum flight speed is 33 feet\/second, meaning 30 mph, and it comes with a microphone.<\/p>\n

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\nClick the image for the DJI Phantom site.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

The Hero3 camera shoots – wait for it – 4K video, and comes with wifi technology. It can record 12mp still images at 30 frames per second. Check out some of the incredible videos on their home page<\/a>. Whether mounted on helmets, surfboards, birds or lions (!) the effect is overwhelming. Image stabilized, wifi, 4K definition and $400 at Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nClick the image for the GoPro site.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

So $879 gets you technology that cost Stanley Kubrick thousands times that when he made the first Steadicam movie, The Shining. That was in 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stunning technology. Quadcopter technology is becoming both reliable and inexpensive. Checkout this stunning video of the Niagara Falls: Click the image for the video. Be sure to watch it in HD. It’s breathtaking. The artist used a Phantom Quadcopter (Amazon has it for $479) and a Black Magic Hero3 camera. The Phantom uses GPS positioning … Continue reading Quadcopter imagery<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-photographers","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25210"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25221,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210\/revisions\/25221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}