[Leica] Drones for photography

[Robert Adler]

Because they are difficult to navigate; see Hindenburg...


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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