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 Posted: Wed Jan 29th, 2014 13:40
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A friend of mine bought a smaller version hexacopter with a GPS and mounted a GoPro camera on it.

You could fly it out of sight and shut off the control box and it would return and land within a meter of it's takeoff spot.

There was no live view so all shots or video are on the fly but the camera is quite sharp and has a very wide angle lens and by hovering and rotating the copter good coverage could be obtained.

Small copters don't require a licence yet and this type of setup costs about $2000.

This is an arial of Waterloo Ontario grabbed from a video frame.

Attachment: Honey H air 4.jpg (Downloaded 18 times)



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