My Baby steps Into Aerial Photography

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Taking it slow, first learning to fly baby quad copters before I venture out into the more expensive gadgets for aerial photography.
Read too many horror stories of people waving bye bye to their quad and gopro as they lose signal and the quad vanished off somewhere.

Anyhow busy flying some babies, actually I'm still crashing into trees, my son is the way way better pilot, must be age and hand/eye coordination.

My first cheapy quad copter, the camera was broken out the box, so ordered a different make, here are some snapshots in Midrand from various videos, taken from heights around 100 feet or so:

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At dusk, the new large Midrand mosque in the background
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and this is the actual baby quad:
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Read too many horror stories of people waving bye bye to their quad and gopro as they lose signal and the quad vanished off somewhere.

Cheap smart phone + google latitude. Should give you an idea of where it lands up if it goes missing.
 
Cheap smart phone + google latitude. Should give you an idea of where it lands up if it goes missing.
It s not really a problem finding it, most of the more expensive ones come with gps or option for gps.
Problem if it lands on a road, under a car or on top of a roof or in a house with a grumpy owner, who happens to be looking for a new gopro :)

Cost on this was around R1200
 
Noice.

What is the range on this thing? You using a GoPro?

No it comes with something like a $20 type camera with fixed infinite lens, you can see it underneath the picture of the quad.
You can select on the controller to take video or stills.

I haven't maxed the range, it was a tad windy this weekend, so went up to height around 30 - 40 meters and distance with the receiver it comes with I think is about 200 meters, it is only a baby quad after all. Will be testing range in a field Thursday.
 
[video=youtube;gVGWln-dxkQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVGWln-dxkQ&feature=g-hist[/video]
Footage starts @ 0:59

I want!!!!!
 
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