[ausjke]

use a phone on drone for camera, how about its zoom functions? can it record far distance contents? per my understanding phone-camera is only good for relatively short distance objects which is not the use case for drones? Thanks.

[ptsneves]

Hello auskje, maybe my post was not clear. The phone acts as a connecting point to the drone, through a manufacurer's SDK.

The camera of the phone is not used nor is the phone flying. Actually the phone is connected to a remote control. See [1].

The role of the phone is not only as a viewer of the live video being captured by the drone, but also as a 4G internet point and a hardware video encoder, that pumps the live video to my platform.

[1] https://developer.parrot.com/

[ausjke]

got it. Thanks for replying.