Our crew has a special guest on and talks about drones / quadcopters and how they may be useful in photography and just for fun! We have a few great points that we find uses for and had some fun too! Do you use a Quadcopter? Join us and chat it up in the comments!
I attended a short talk and then a demo of the Phantom (not using a GoPro) last Saturday. Flight time was 20 minutes max. The video was nice and smooth. There were some stitched together stills of good quality. Amazon lists one like this for about $1,000. But if a person wanted to start off with some basic ones to just get their feet wet, they start as low as around $50.
Battery life degrades as batteries get older, plus this was a 1st generation model, the newer Phantoms may have better batteries installed! I know the prices vary so much from 10’s of thousands to $50 – think lots of research has to be done before jumping in