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RC Aerial Camera

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sander_h
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http://vimeo.com/24372083
Do you guy see this stuff sticking around?
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ripper_shredder
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RC Aerial Cam Snow Reel from Rc Aerial Cam on Vimeo.

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S.C
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now im gonna buy a cheap RC helicopter and make a project for myself! but that's real sick
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zerospinskier
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I just saw this somewhere else. So sick. Is it not the Copter Kids guys? If not, I didn't know there was another group doing it as well. Either way, its dope.
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[-mvee-]
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idk if it will stay, im not evan sure how it works to be honest. but that video was sick.
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lukewalnuts
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going to try this with my contour!
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TWoods
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There's no other way to get those shots other than hiring an actual helicopter to film out of, I think it's pretty awesome.
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VanMelle
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anyone know of a website or had any experience with doing this on your own? as in buying a decent remote controlled heli and mounting a camera? I want to do something like this, obviously it wont be as good unless you spend over a few grand, but I was thinking somewhere under $1000 if possibly it'd be a good investment, until I break the damn thing like rob and big
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zerospinskier
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You could ad a GoPro to a quad copter for a few hundred bucks, but it isn't going to be anything close to what the real guys have.
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MattL.
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@twoods, dude this is actually an rc lol
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andrewmeehan
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RC heli's are a lot harder to fly that you think. If you were wanting to just go out a buy a heli and strap a 7d to it, i would never do it until you had at least 75-100 hours of just solid flight time.

I've flown them off and on for a few years and they still are retardedly hard to fly.
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[~_~]
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Some of those are really sick, but considering how much you pay to get shots that often can't stay level, I don't see it being financially feasible. Also, while the wide angle works for some shots, a lot of those looked really bad. Heli shots look much better at long focal lengths in my opinion, and doing so requires a Cineflex.
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TWoods
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Yea, I know that, that's what I'm saying. I think that RC helicopter filming will only increase in popularity, because the only other way to get motion shots like that is to hire a full size heli, which is expensive.
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MattL.
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ohh lol sry:P
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Sklar
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the GoPro guys at the Teva games in vail had some sick RC helis, something like 6, i think blades.
they looked sick, and were super stable
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EC-Skier
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im pretty sure toy soldier uses rcs to film some of their stuff
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