This is today's rage among professional photographers and hobbyists. Multicopters or multirotors (quadcopter, hexacopter or octocopter) equipped with HD camera (sold separately), for capturing aerial video/photography or surveillance. They had been used for capturing videos in many occasions or places; golf tournaments, nature/wedding/wildlife photography, archaeology sites, land surveying, construction progress, pipeline inspection, real estate, livestock monitoring, wildfire mapping, home security, oil and gas mineral exploration and many more that would not be possible with traditional photography. Also, hiring helicopter is too expensive!!
Potential uses for multirotors have no boundary. Capture photos or videos of what they want, cut and crop as they like, incorporate any song choice, add captions.. You name it... Here are the examples, all taken from personal collections.
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| Hexacopter |
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| Aerial view - Putrajaya area |
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| Paddy field - Tanjung Karang |
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Quadcopter
So what aspect of IT is this thingy? How do you think the process is completed? I'm an IT dummy, so I'll give you my version of the process..
1) Upload video/photo from memory card
2) Crop, tweak, twirl, cut, edit picture quality where desired
3) For video, put in songs of choice.(mind you, you may not want to put sentimental songs into dirt bike videos. Well, maybe I would.. hehe)
4) Post in youtube
5) Share in social media if you so desired
6) Surf web for more good locations for taking photos or for more gadgets/accessories/new rotor
7) Repeat steps 1 - 6
.... easy peasy... (I wish...!)
Here are the videos, taken from personal collection. Well, not mine actually, but my husband's.. (note: pls pause playlist at top of page)
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Video - Kepong Botanical Garden
Video - Sungai Batang Kali
Oh yes, a reminder... Some of the blades are made of carbon fibre. They can slice your fingers easily (I know, my husband had experienced it firsthand when the blades (of softer materials) sliced his thumbnail, I had to send him for treatment at 1am!) ). Users therefore should fly well away from people, cars or buildings and manoeuvre within own skill capacity and experience. Never be crafty.. It would also be wise not to fly over private property without permission. There was a case in KL when the quadcopter crashed into a VVIP's roof and the news was splashed over local newspaper since the VVIP suspected surveillance activities being carried out.
If you like aerial photography, then multirotor is worthy trying. You might like it.. :)
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