Despite what drone makers want you to think, you don’t need to buy an expensive camera-equipped quadcopter to capture awesome aerial footage of your adventures. GoPro sells an $800 drone just for this, but skier Nicolas Vuignier discovered he could get similarly impressive results by just chucking his GoPro camera in the air.
https://gizmodo.com/swinging-an-iphone-around-your-head-produces-stunningly-1757316759
You might remember Vuignier as the skier who recreated The Matrix’s bullet-time effect by swinging his iPhone around his head. This time he modified a GoPro with a tail, using a prototype of the AER accessory we saw last year, so that when thrown wind-resistance would always keep it pointed in the same direction.
Capturing decent footage with this approach was still hit and miss. A 10-day ski adventure yielded only two or three usable shots every day, and the GoPro was always recording at high-speed to produce smooth, watchable slow-mo shots. It meant footage was limited to lower resolutions, but hey—it also saved Vuignier at least $800.
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