James Wrote:
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> Roger Hogan Wrote:
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> > To The Video:
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> > A nine car train arriving at Cumbres Pass.
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> I've enjoyed watching you grow gradually more and
> more ambitious with your drone-based photography
> over the past couple years as you gain experience
> operating the machine. The artist side of you
> must relish the opportunities it provides in terms
> of creating genuinely new photography as opposed
> to ground-based work which has mostly been done
> before (multiple times, usually) due to the
> highly-photographed nature of the C&TS and to a
> slightly lesser degree the Loop. When I used to
> fly R/C airplanes there was always a realtime
> mental trade-off going on of "Can I do this
> without wrecking the thing?" Greater experience
> increased the leeway of what could be done. Gusty
> weather was always the greatest enemy.
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> The next step in technological development will be
> somehow finding a solution to the problem of motor
> and propeller noise so as to allow the use of
> natural audio. I don't necessarily love the music
> but I understand why it's there (who wants to post
> a silent video?) and I much prefer its
> straightforward honesty over the phony fake dubbed
> audio that would've been the norm in similar
> videos thirty or forty years ago.

The more flights the better the comfort level. I would be a happy camper if I could get sound with my drone.