We’re suckers for good drone footage, and the demo reel from videographer Randy Scott Slavin delivers. Using a DJI Phantom equipped with a GoPro Hero 3 Black, Slavin shot the Manhattan Bridge, the High Line, and other NYC locations from the air. The highlight comes at around 40 seconds, when the drone flies up Fifth Avenue, through the Washington Square Arch, and high above the park.
"Unmanned aerial vehicle" is fine; so is "remote-controlled quad-copter," I'd imagine. The industry that makes the pilotless flying robots most know as "drones" just doesn't want you calling them "drones," according to a Washington Post report. Why? Because "drone" conjures up the image of innocent people dying in Yemen and Pakistan, of…
Engineers at FliteTest have mounted a medium format Lomography camera onto a remote-controlled tricopter, finally bring all the fuzzy, light-leaky, vignetting and grain that super secret spy footage has been begging for. The "Lomo-Copter" comes equipped with another first-person-view camera mounted to the Lomo-cam's view finder, transmitting real-time footage to…
It's only a matter of time before 5 Pointz is gone, and whether they intended to or not, a video production company called Aerial VP has created a fitting tribute to the graffiti sacred grounds. The footage, shot from a hexacopter drone, is something to behold, even if the editing…
