[Leica] Drones for photography

[Mark Rabiner]

How about balloons?
Balloons and cameras go way back. Just like bikes and cameras.

http://petapixel.com/2010/12/06/skyfishing-with-a-fishing-pole-30-helium-bal
loons-and-a-camera/

Or

http://tinyurl.com/p5qmu3r


On 7/23/14 12:48 PM, "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> There are indeed restrictions on using drones in many municipalities
> and National Parks in the USA. The FAA has also chimed in and
> restricted the use of drones above 300 feet. I may be wrong on the
> exact altitude. Most of the restrictions involve commercial use of the
> drones. Amateur photographers are granted a lot of leeway although
> there is a court case pending in Cold Spring, NY about the use of a
> drone to take videos of a wedding. Most of the commercial drones are
> fairly big, a couple of feet across, and fully capable of carrying a
> couple of pounds of camera gear and a TV link. The Amazon thingies
> neither have the lifting capacity not the range to get the pictures
> shown in Jayanand's posting of Guardian images. One town has even
> authorized gun owners to shoot down drones that they consider intrusive.
> 
> Or you can sidestep the entire issue and use a kite. My nephew has
> taken some decent pictures with a camera strapped to a box kite. He has
> a good quality Canon P&S camera with a large capacity memory and a
> timer set to take a picture every couple of seconds. The kite is flown
> over a site and the camera snaps pictures. The kite is stable and very
> controllable. Editing is a chore since only one out of a dozen pictures
> is useful but he is entirely legal. So far no marksmen have taken
> potshots at his kite.
> Larry Z
> - - - -
> 
> I think there are restrictions on them in the parks . . .
> 
> . . . the quality of the cameras on board is pretty good on some of
> them.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes! Throwing one off glacier point in Yosemite or skimming up the
> Merced
> to Yosemite Falls would be wonderful fun.
> 
> I've been learning on these little quad copters from amazon. Lots of fun
> (the cat has a different opinion).
> 
> My concern, of course, is strapping a couple thousand in camera gear to
> a
> thousand+ of drone equipment and losing it all.
> 
> So I have not gone down the path. However the little $30 buzzers from
> amazon are GREAT fun!
> Bob
> 
> Bob Adler
> 
> On Jul 23, 2014, at 1:38 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> From a drone. I am seriously getting tempted to acquire a drone...
> 
> 
> www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/jul/21/aerial-views-of-india-by-dr
> one-in-pictures
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information




-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/