[bigiain]

Note: I'm pretty sure the glass alone in the lens of that camera weighs more than all but my biggest drone (my second-heaviest drone is 470g ready to fly).

I usually fly with a 38g camera if I'm trying to record decent pictures (a Mobius) or a 17g camera if I just want a useable recording of a flight (an 808 keychain camera).

[btiede]

Thanks for sharing Bigiain. Interesting discussion. Have wanted to get into drone photography. Am a painter, so think this would be an interesting new domain for me (provided that I can find a canvas large enough!)

[bigiain]

Heh - watch out for that... Photographers - in one sense - make the _worst_ drone hobbyists. Some of them are never happy without most of a kilogram of very expensive glass up in the air, because it's quite true that everything GoPro category and down takes quite flawed photographs compares to even mid range DSLR type camera with good lenses. I've got friends who spend more on software licences for their colour grading tool than I've spent in total on my whole fleet of 5 quad copters.

If you just want to be able to see what things look like "from up there", here's a way to do that for ~$130: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/5228554566/

If you want to do _ART_ from a multicopter, you're quite likely to be unhappy with the results of 10 or 20 times that much outlay...

(And, you're quite likely to be distracted from "doing important art" by "having way too much fun with toy helicopters"...)