Posted by Jody Grigg on December 15, 2011 at 10:19 AM
I see these being used more and more, I was at the Leadville 100 Bike Race and there was one hexacopter at the start. A lot of the ski movies have segements being filmed with these too, Teton Gravity Research use them, Salomon Freeski and the Smith Goggles short films. The quality is just amazing with the right setup, you would never know it comes from a model helicopter.
Posted by Phillip Noll on December 15, 2011 at 10:30 AM
You could really have fun with one of these at Arches! Assuming you got a special use permit of course!
But think of the video you could shoot zipping down canyons!
Posted by Erik Stensland on December 18, 2011 at 3:35 PM
I actually met a guy who offered to build one for me if I purchased the parts. At first it sounded quite exciting but then I had visions of flying it into a wall and smashing both the copter and my camera equipment into thousands of small pieces. I quickly decided that this wasn't a risk I was ready to take, yet.
Posted by Phillip Noll on December 19, 2011 at 1:48 PM
Yeah, I would think you would need to practice quite a bit before strapping $10k worth of camera gear to the thing!!
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Can hold a DSLR!
But think of the video you could shoot zipping down canyons!