Uh, beats a ladder?
Posted 12.18.2012 at 12:30 pm
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Marcio Kogan
Photo By Fernando Guerra
Drones have been taking on more creative jobs lately. (Artsy skateboarding photographer? Check. Local news reporter? Check.) So it was just a matter of time before drones joined the construction game.
Design pair FG+SG has started enlisting a drone that can snag (very pretty) shots of buildings from the sky. The team plans on turning it into a client-based service, with the presumable sales pitch being: "Instead of trying to find that perfect position nearby, or paying up for a helicopter, let our drone do the work for you."
Of course, having a pro photographer behind the drone doesn't hurt, either. Fernando Guerra uses a camera system mounted to the lightweight, carbon fiber-based machine to capture the beautiful shots, whether they're pictures of a building in progress or a landscapes of a completed structure.
The Missing Dimension: FG + SG
Biblioteca do Monte da Caparica: Photo By Fernando Guerra
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wonder when well be able to sit in drone and fly around?
GregoryDes, did you seriously just ask that? I think the DRONE part of it kind of means you wont fly in it. That is what passenger vehicles like planes and helicopters are for...
Sometimes I wish I could leave this planet and start a new one.
"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."
Drone, robot, drone, robot, it is such an wonderfully overly used word of PoPSCi, how FUN!
I hope eveyone knows, this is just a remote controlled flying camera.... right..... ;)
(waiting for some crackhead to say something about chem-trails)