I got no experience with contixo, so you can read reviews as well as I can. I looked at the brushless 4k GPS one for like $219, it had good looking reviews from what I saw. I only spent about 45 seconds looking, though.
If you want a flying camera platform for really good video, you want brushless motors, GPS and preferably a camera stabilized on a gimbal. The consumer level gold standard here will be DJI, but there are plenty of also-rans that produce a very good product. The stabilization on DJI products can take all the flying out of it to where you are just positioning a very stable camera in three dimensional space. You let go of the sticks, it stays there. These drones on woot do not appear to be knockoffs of them, but they do appear to be going for the same flying camera market.
If you want to play around in your back yard, going cheaper is fine. I have a Nikko “racing” quad I got for $25, brushed geared motors, all plastic, and fun as it can be because I don’t care if I crash it, and it actually has manual flight mode where it doesn’t baby you at all.
@compunaut Several years ago mediocre had a forum dedicated to dronies. The domain was “drone.horse”. That forum was discontinued a few years ago, and IIRC, the content of that forum has since been rolled into this forum. It was fun while it lasted, but the community never really caught on. Eventually there were only a few of us frequenting that forum and mediocre pulled the plug.
I fly a DJI Mavic Air 2 and love it. I’m a bit of a camera geek and the quality is exceptional. If you’re looking for a fun toy anything cheap is good. I’ve owned plenty of drones under $50 and have loved flying them until they ended up on top of the maple tree. If you are looking for a unmanned aircraft with a 4K camera, do your research and buy what you need. I love Woot but it’s not where I’m going to impulse by high end tech.
This was one of my first flights with the Mavic Air 2, maybe a year ago. My daughter wanted to get out and pitch and hit a bit. I wanted to get out and do a test fly. It was so stable. I don’t know anything about the Contixo brand, but if you are going to spend money, make sure you are getting what you want.
@ruouttaurmind Also, when I bought that one I bought it for a camera with propellers, not for propellers with a camera. It was not inexpensive, but I did my research and found the right tool I needed. It’s a great camera, fun to fly and it has a sport mode which disables obstacle avoidance, but lets it go 42 MPH. Which is terrifying.
@capnjb PS: Adobe Premier actually does a pretty amazing job stabilizing video. Particularly if you are working with a clip that’s very stable to start, Premier will make you question if you actually recorded it from a fixed platform.
We prefer drone horses.
I got no experience with contixo, so you can read reviews as well as I can. I looked at the brushless 4k GPS one for like $219, it had good looking reviews from what I saw. I only spent about 45 seconds looking, though.
If you want a flying camera platform for really good video, you want brushless motors, GPS and preferably a camera stabilized on a gimbal. The consumer level gold standard here will be DJI, but there are plenty of also-rans that produce a very good product. The stabilization on DJI products can take all the flying out of it to where you are just positioning a very stable camera in three dimensional space. You let go of the sticks, it stays there. These drones on woot do not appear to be knockoffs of them, but they do appear to be going for the same flying camera market.
If you want to play around in your back yard, going cheaper is fine. I have a Nikko “racing” quad I got for $25, brushed geared motors, all plastic, and fun as it can be because I don’t care if I crash it, and it actually has manual flight mode where it doesn’t baby you at all.
@djslack So I should have titled this “Calling All Drone Horses”?
@compunaut Several years ago mediocre had a forum dedicated to dronies. The domain was “drone.horse”. That forum was discontinued a few years ago, and IIRC, the content of that forum has since been rolled into this forum. It was fun while it lasted, but the community never really caught on. Eventually there were only a few of us frequenting that forum and mediocre pulled the plug.
@ruouttaurmind I remember lurking there occasionally
I fly a DJI Mavic Air 2 and love it. I’m a bit of a camera geek and the quality is exceptional. If you’re looking for a fun toy anything cheap is good. I’ve owned plenty of drones under $50 and have loved flying them until they ended up on top of the maple tree. If you are looking for a unmanned aircraft with a 4K camera, do your research and buy what you need. I love Woot but it’s not where I’m going to impulse by high end tech.
This was one of my first flights with the Mavic Air 2, maybe a year ago. My daughter wanted to get out and pitch and hit a bit. I wanted to get out and do a test fly. It was so stable. I don’t know anything about the Contixo brand, but if you are going to spend money, make sure you are getting what you want.
Softball video
@capnjb That is rock steady. Did you do any post on the vid, or was that all pure DJI doing the stabilization work?
@ruouttaurmind I only edited for time. Not sure I could stabilize it if I wanted to.
@ruouttaurmind Also, when I bought that one I bought it for a camera with propellers, not for propellers with a camera. It was not inexpensive, but I did my research and found the right tool I needed. It’s a great camera, fun to fly and it has a sport mode which disables obstacle avoidance, but lets it go 42 MPH. Which is terrifying.
@capnjb In the early days of drone.horse I got a Walkera Pro something or other which would do around 40mph. Agreed, terrifying!
@capnjb PS: Adobe Premier actually does a pretty amazing job stabilizing video. Particularly if you are working with a clip that’s very stable to start, Premier will make you question if you actually recorded it from a fixed platform.
/youtube bee dance
Since you want some drone direction