No comment really apart from it looks good, but as someone whose paid money to do this commercially, I find it worrying that the rest of the world is just going ahead now and shooting their own footage/photos with ever easy to use drones while breaking all the rules and I'm the stupid mug worrying about doing things by the book when no one else cares, or is punished.
I was led to believe if you use drone content to promote yourself its classed as commercial.
As someone whose tried to do things the right way, I'm starting to feel like an endangered species, not just because the tech is easier to use, but simply because go pro and dji are making it really socially acceptable to do this.
So instead of being paid to get property aerials, its going to be really tempting for estate agents to just get them themselves, while I don't blame them, I'm starting to feel let down by the CAA who were pretty heavy handed in making threats about you not jumping through their many costly and expensive hoops, only to see, everyone else is breaking the rules on a constant basis and I'm starting to feel like an idiot trying to follow the rules in a world where hardly anyone else is.
Anyone else shares my concerns on this?
I totally get what you are saying and yes it is massively frustrating especially for those trying to find work and I agree the Mavic will also give more amo for unlicensed users to do whatever they want. its well known that Phantom owners do anything they want and get away with it.. It`ll be the Mavic lads soon! Saying that I have a Mavic on order as its a fantastic tool and I can see lots of opportunities to use one even in commercial work. From what I have seen from the footage, there is less compression artifacts and no warped horizon! it is looking to be a fantastic little machine, very excited to try one out. On the point of rules being broken even more, absolutely will happen and as hard and annoying as it is, just try to concentrate on pushing yourself, because I have found that 80% of my work the client requires to see my accreditation documents which always makes me happy. It makes me realise it was worth it, so the work will come through and you wont think too much about other people breaking rules.
I totally get how disheartening it can be though, many times I have spent so much time and effort doing everything the right way, and found out someone went to the same spot, with no permissions, no care for height restrictions and proximity rules and no one has battered an eyelid. I don`t even bother trying to educate anyone because no one listens, so I have to just concentrate on myself, and just put myself out there, but I can guarantee something bad will happen from someone using a drone, and heavy rules will be set. Unfortunately the mindset of this world is that something tragic has to happen before anything gets put into place.
I am excited for the Mavic though, more so than the
Inspire 2. In fact I am not really that bothered about the
inspire 2, because I have an X5r now, and the footage I get is truely remarkable and it is a fantastic machine to fly, the only plus for an
inspire 2 would be redundancy, but that is it. I cant really fault it in any other way. It is hard in this world not to get G.A.S. but I am very very happy with the kit I have. The phantom was the tool for portability and traveling now the Mavic totally blows it out of the water for that, so it`ll be sitting in my photography bag at all times. Sometimes its about getting the shot. The best camera in the world doesnt suddenly get you the best shot ever despite what some snobs think. If you are competent at what you do then you can adapt to any limitation of a camera and produce stella work no matter what it is. I had someone who has the mindset that you have to have the most expensive in everything call my inspire just a toy, yet the time to carry, setup and get his rig in the air, I would have got the shot at a very high quality anyway because of the X5r and moved on to the next location.