Summer pasttime - flying a quadcopter
Sunday, August 12. 2018
The summer here in Finland has been extremely warm. Given that, I've mostly not been inside doing computer-things, but outside doing outdoorsy things. Here we get couple good months per year, if we're lucky, so I decided to enjoy them fully.
Besides SUPping around the Lake Saimaa, I got a DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter to test out. At the time of writing, I already returned the loaner.
The thing looks like this, when the controller has my iPad attached to it:
Here is some sample footage:
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/w-ISgv08ad0
Just getting the thing flying is pretty easy, but controlling it in a sensible fashion so that the 4K-camera would actually capture a beautiful video is very hard. The above video is a first run and it has tons of camera operator mistakes in it. Some of my un-published videos I did do 3-4 runs to get it right. Still, flying the thing was tons of fun.
