11th June 2011, 10:46 AM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I am guessing however that the quoted price does not take into account the cost of the camera equipment...As a comparison the six rotor Draganflyer X6 helicopter costs around ?1500 for the flying bits but adds up to nearly ?14,000 when you add the camera equipment
A ?200 14meg pocket camera set on continuous shooting seems to work fine dangling off a kite, at least for site work (and its a big site) - with a big memory card runs for half an hour on 2-second gaps although wading through all the resulting piccies is a bit tedious - suppose it depends on whether you actually want to check what people are writing on their context sheets by looking over their shoulder from 500 feet?...and a lot cheaper when it all goes t**s....presumably you could do the same off a thing with a propeller(s)? The main interest in propellor things is increasing the likelihood that the camera's occasionally pointing in the right direction (although some of the random mistakes have been really interesting)