Introducing the next tiny thing in aerial camera platforms. Here is the multi-copter!

What is a multi-copter?
This video pretty much sums it up.

These things haven’t been around for too long, but they are fast becoming the wild new platform for flying cinema and photography. Still perhaps too expensive for most of us, these tiny flyers will soon be hovering over our heads looking for things to shoot.

Multi-copters come in a number of sizes and with 4, 6 or 8 rotors. They can be equipped with GPS and allow the ‘pilot ‘ to see the view from the ‘cockpit’ using VR glasses. The larger versions of these copters are capable of lifting a DSLR and a good-sized lens. Photography meets robotic geek technology.

Now it is possible to take that shot of the waterfall from the angle you want, the church steeple, the neighborhood or a treetop from a birds-eye perspective. The shots, which are possible, are limited pretty much by the skill of the operator in flying the contraption and current aviation restrictions for altitude. They promise to bring new ways of recording our world.

This opens up a whole new way to take pictures and to shoot video. It also opens up a bunch of privacy issues, which we will attempt to discuss in a future post.

Let’s just hope that these mechanical flying bugs are used for making great imagery that will be used ethically and creatively for the common good.

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