You dream of filming your boat navigation on your next holiday ? To impress your friends with aerial views of the crew ? It is now within the reach of your scholarship : not need to hire the services of a helicopter or microlight, a thousand euros and a little practice enough (¹) !
The Phantom 2 Vision (²) Chinese society DJI Innovations is for you. This remote controlled drone ships WiFi HD 1080p video camera taking photos 14 Mpx. Remote control associated with a smartphone can completely control the flight direct vision from the camera, controlling the vertical and horizontal rotation of the camera, and manipulate shots, films ou clichés.
WiFi connection to door 300 meters
This drone "quadricopter" four propellers weighs only 1160 grams and measures only 29 x 29 cm. It has a battery life of 25 minutes and can fly up 12 knots and a maximum rate of climb of 30 Noeuds and horizontal vitesse. The flying camera lets you take pictures at an angle up to 140 °, focus 2,8, recorded on an SD Card 4GB. The device supports Adobe DNG and JPEG image formats Raw, a specific profile Phantom Vision Profile has even been updated by Adobe to address distortions images high curvature in Photoshop.
Application DJI Vision runs on Android and Apple iOS. Associated with the remote control it allows full control of the camera : angle, tilt and rotation of the camera, Photo switching / video, réglages ISO, image quality, exposure, White Balance, choice of JPEG or RAW.
Precision of flying and safe return
The GPS system allows autopilot integrated maintaining the position, locking the stability and altitude hovering. This allows you to concentrate on getting images. A virtual radar displays the current position of the UAV relative to pilot.
Exceed the range of the remote control automatically activates the "return home" feature that will automatically come back and land the aircraft safely to its takeoff point.
Enough to take great pictures of your boat that will amaze your friends back from vacation. To give you an idea, Here is a film made by American photographer Eric Sterman with this drone, with him by a GoPro camera Hero3 .
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(¹) Attention to the severe French regulation concerning the theft of drones.
(²) Thank you to Mac4Ever for making me discover this jewel.
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Even though I have no need and no desire to shoot me, je trouve également que ce « bijou » est tout simplement génial !
Par ailleurs j’ai pensé que cette récente récapitulation des « Andriod Tablet/Smart Phone apps for Cruisers » faite par un Blogueur américain pourrait vous intéresser :
http://gilwellbear.wordpress.com/category/boat-technical-topics/equipment-topics/android-apps-equipment-topics/