These are from the new DJI Mavic Pro - incredibly tiny but very impressive.
Stills and video are significantly better than the Phantom 3

- Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge 30th November -
It was barely above freezing despite sunshine.

More usually seen here like this 
https://s6.postimg.org/80nl3utoh/10_01_14.jpg

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Very scenic images....

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Excellent shots four.  Very impressed.  I am very tempted to get one, after viewing your material.

To see the Lion Inn again.  What memories.

 

How about some a video of dirgers suffering over Wheeldale Moor, or sinking into one of the many many bogs.  I pity you couldn't fly in some really filthy weather to get the flavour of the walk.  You could use this for the musical accompaniment to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_jKsQjuCfE

 

For those of you fortunate enough to have no idea what I am talking about, here are the lyrics

The great thing about the mavic is it folds up about the size of a pigeon, you can literally put it in a (big) pocket or more sensibly a modest camera bag, whereas with my previous phantoms it was a boxy backpack which was far from compact even in a car.
Also the set-up and pack-away is much improved as props stay on - you just open it up and go, with practice about one minute.
They've also vastly improved the automated tracking mode to follow and/or circle around any subject you highlight in the app display.

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Yesterday about 10am

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North Yorks Moors by "four" from 15th Jan 2017

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Just experimenting with embedded video!

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Great to see the Ariel images.

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This was last Friday and at first I thought...hmm...boring... but looked at it again on a gloomy morning and decided to upload.
The farm with tiled roof across the wooded valley is where we used to live in the 1960s.
Parents had 12 cows on about a dozen fields.
It was a rented place and the estate later took most of the best land (behind) in hand and it looks to be two big fields now though most of the boundaries were really poor flakey limestone walls.

From about 8 years old we used to cycle on the now quite busy road below - to buy comics and sweets etc in small town a couple of miles away :o
I don't actually remember there being traffic but must have been the odd speeding Morris Minor.



The present DJI Mavic really shines at close quarters due to obstacle avoidance technology and very closed down 'Tripod Mode' - though these featres are now across the range.
Best thing about Mavic is how it folds to the size of a pigeon and can literally be carried in your pocket.
If you have a big pocket.

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Nice hill scenes on 1st Video.  The second with the pine trees is nice with the sharpness.

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Heather is good now if we get a fine day to see it.

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Another starting higher up.
If viewing embedded or on mobile device these might look better with resolution on 480p, in fullscreen max it out 1080p or higher.

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Some more great aerial images.

Looks like it will become harder to record over National Trust places as they seem to have put in place a blanket ban on flying drones. 

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/golden-cap/features/the-use-of-drones-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-at-our-west-dorset-places

One glaring loophole though is that they don't seem to mind para gliders. And many para gliders use cameras to record a flight and are arguably more disruptive to people on the ground?

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/hang-gliding-and-paragliding-in-isle-of-wight.

So ironically although you can write an article about National Trust people and property and sell it, you are not able to make images (photographic, paintings, sketches etc) with the intention to sell without written permission.

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Some more great aerial images.

Looks like it will become harder to record over National Trust places as they seem to have put in place a blanket ban on flying drones. 

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/golden-cap/features/the-use-of-drones-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-at-our-west-dorset-places

One glaring loophole though is that they don't seem to mind para gliders. And many para gliders use cameras to record a flight and are arguably more disruptive to people on the ground?

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/hang-gliding-and-paragliding-in-isle-of-wight.

So ironically although you can write an article about National Trust people and property and sell it, you are not able to make images (photographic, paintings, sketches etc) with the intention to sell without written permission.

Cynics might conclude that they are attempting to maximise the profits on their own publications depicting the beauty of these sites

Lawyers might ask how much of the air above their land do they own or have the right to control

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Cynics might conclude that they are attempting to maximise the profits on their own publications depicting the beauty of these sites

Lawyers might ask how much of the air above their land do they own or have the right to control

IMO The National Trust are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to control the visual aesthetics of their properties when seen in the media. For example someone is planning an article on some aspect of the Trust lets say at Ringstead Bay in Dorset. Words are fine but when it comes to sourcing a suitable image all they will have to choose from if they are to follow the  NT regulations are the pictures in the National Trust Image Library. Not a wide ranging choice. If you were looking for one with say a happy family enjoying themselves there are none. However there are numerous images elsewhere or you could shoot them yourself if you were able to without breaking the NT rules.

The second paragraph. There has never been a court case to test this angle as far as I can see. I don't think the NT or anyone is brave enough to test it but I would for one one love to see it explored a bit more. If anyone is interested the late Fay Godwins book Our Forbidden Land is as topical today as it was when it was first published.

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This was a couple of days ago, you can see pick up truck parked at the end.
Two old ladies had pulled in alongside in a smart car and looked a bit taken aback when I reached out and landed it on my hand like a hawk.



We used to make hay in fields by the two houses at the end (in the1960s).
It was commonplace to bale up adders in the crop, they were very numerous on the south facing scrubby slope.

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Another fog puddles vid from yesterday morning at 2C.
When it's like this, apart from being photogenic, winds are light which is a rarity.

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Some nice images in the flight. Well liked. 

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Fantastic filming; gosh, I love Britain from the air.

Music a bit missed IMO- and especially true of the 2 Sep shots: snow music.

But again- brilliant images.

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