3/15/2023 0 Comments Phantom 2 video downlink gopro![]() Product sales skyrocketed.Ĭoncurrently, drone manufacturers like DJI and FreeFly Systems created larger multirotor airframes, controllers, gimbals, and componentry to satisfy the growing market for high-end aerial photography and cinematography. Even photography software companies like Adobe tailored offerings to it. Soon, every camera retailer, from Adorama and Amazon to B&H Foto, carried the Phantom line. But it didn’t take long for professional photographers to notice its package of features and ease of use. The question for this post is: Did DJI hit the mark for the target market? For that answer, we need to go beyond the drone itself and look at how professional photographers and videographers use drones and cameras.Īs a primer, you may want to read what I have already written about this market in Film or Farm: Which is the Bigger Drone Market? and The Democratization of Aerial Photography.ĭrone manufacturers understand photographers have longed for inexpensive ways to take aerial images, and DJI heralded the turnkey consumer-level camera drone with its DJI Phantom Vision. Much has already been written on the Inspire 1 T600 (like here and here) so I won’t repeat it. It’s chock full of features I wish I had four years ago when I first started mounting GoPro cameras on quadcopter kits - things like ease of use, a simple interface, controller ergonomics, telemetry, a 3D-axis gimbal, integrated HD video downlink, optical flow for indoor flying (how cool is that!?). The camera, on the other hand, is another story.įor a guy like me who not only follows the commercial market for drones but is also an avid photography and multirotor enthusiast, the new DJI Inspire 1 is, well, inspiring. ![]() I think it’s futuristic – the drone that is.
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