Drone vs. Helicopter, which is better for Aerial Photography? - 014
Drone verses helicopter, sounds like the title of a new blockbuster movie, but I digress. There was one image out of Hollywood that impressed upon me the opportunity of drones in filmmaking. The scene was a busy small downtown with a few multi-story buildings where the action star was running from a burning building. Perched above at seventy-five feet was a helicopter shooting the action from just above the rooftop. I thought to myself, “Wow, that seems like a risky proposition, low level right over the town intersection set, what if the engine quit on the helicopter?” How cool it would be to use a drone, also known as a small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS), for this scene. However, we are not just talking about the film industry, it’s much broader. Next, we will outline the positive and negative aspects of each platform. Source: Helicopter, Bangor by Rossographer , CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Helic...