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diff --git a/drone-article.txt b/drone-article.txt index e69de29..fb4d14a 100644 --- a/drone-article.txt +++ b/drone-article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ + +Mike Lord quotes: +It depends on what you're trying to do... flying is an important part of composing shots + +Nothing is ever going to be able to tell you what things looks like when you're up there. you don't know what the interesting shot is going to be until you're up there. + +waypoints -- set waypoints and then go back, smoother flying between points, + +allows you to pan the camera while the drone does the flying (course lock -- point the drone in a direction and it stays in that direction, gives you the ability to have a continues tracking shot, while you manipulate the camera to keep an object in the center, i.e. flying by a property) + +I don't feel comfortable having so little control. As a photographer I don't see any advantage to not being able to see what you're doing. All of this just trying to cut corners when you're trying to learn to fly a drone. Just go out and practice and learn how to fly your drone. + +Point of interest stuff is cool, you can fly up and away while circling. + +To get the highest quality shots you're always going to want one pilot and one photographer. + +Solving problems that don't exist. + +The course line and course lock allow me to do things that I could not do before. + +evolve the follow me feature, something with a wristband perhaps. If you're snowboarding you don't want to carry anything. + +Collision avoidance and situational self awareness. Avoiding crashing is still the hardest part of flying and none of the automation so far addresses that. One of the most fun parts is flying it and you;re always going to be more adaptive and smarter than a series of waypoints. + +As a photographer I want things that give more more control and make the drone more responsive to my input, I don't want to just send a robot up in the sky. + + + +I asked about sending the drone back, and she comes at me with this. What +do you think? It is interesting, or do you just want it out of your life? + +If you do want to look at it, I don't think there's necessarily a review +in it. But maybe a trend story? Something about how much easier flying is, +where you just press a button? I dunno, maybe that's old news. But with +Parrot's push-button take-off/landing, 3DR Solo's "follow me," and now +this feature, it seems like this is all moving quickly toward total +automation. It might be pushing it to try to make a news story out of it. +But I dunno, you know all this stuff better than me. Is that old news? + +You can also say yes to the add-on, try it out and use it for your +business, then I tell them that you don't want to write about it. + +But maybe it won't fit in the hippie-van. + + + +Great, I'll ask her to ship it to Holman Ave. + +Maybe that's the trend story: the next big step in drone tech is obstacle +detection. You just need 2 or 3 interviews with people who have skin in +the game, and you can write a tidy story about the challenges the experts +are dealing with. + +I know it's not the type of thing you were super-stoked on before you +started just doing reviews, but it's an easy one. We did this in January, +but maybe there's new news and we could provide an update: +http://www.wired.com/2015/01/autopilot-tech-total-game-changer-drones/ + +Anyway, I bet you'll think of better ideas after you fly this! |