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General Climbing Discussion

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Seeking Climbing Photo/Videographer,Blue Mountains 20-Sep-2013 At 1:22:04 AM strerror
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On 19/09/2013 nmonteith wrote:
>I've had a little to do with drones and filming over the last few years
>in advertising. My understanding is that they have a very limited battery
>life - a few minutes at best and that they can't handle even the slighted
>wind. So I can't imagine them be very useful for anything but a very specific
>shot.

actually that's fairly inaccurate. They do have limited battery life, but again that's fairly variable, typical flight time is about 12-20 mins, more then enough for most vids. Ofcourse the trick is to carry multiple batteries. Re the wind, a decent drone is fine in winds up to ~40km/h at which point you need more custom build ones to stay perfectly still, but even at 40+ they will just move around a bit. As to how far, that depends on whether you have a pilot flying them or you're just using something like a GPS hold.
On the contrary I'd say aerial photography is where it's at for climbing, instead of paying ~20k for a helicopter you can get a drone to go whereever you like and then have the "director" control the camera shot.

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