Best Camera Drone

One of the hottest tech trends this year has to be best camera drone. No, not the hunter killer type used by the military, but the consumer contraptions aimed at hobbyists. In the consumer drone sector there are primarily two types of drones: those made for photography and those made for play.

Drones are becoming a much bigger part of the way a lot of people shoot video and images - particularly for extreme sports like mountain biking, climbing, and skateboarding. If you follow any big channels on YouTube – particularly car and travel ones – you will see them using drones more and more for aerial shots. Historically, the only way to perform these types of shots before drones was with helicopters, which are, as you’d expect, pretty damn expensive to lease for a day of shooting!

Drones, therefore, while quite expensive for the type used in broadcast media, are a vastly cheaper alternative than hiring a chopper for the day. You don’t need a pilot or insurance and anything like that and the results you get are more or less the same – great, engaging aerial footage.

Even for casual users, drones have a massive appeal. They're a ton of fun to whizz around on a summer's day, particularly if you have a FPV (first-person-view) camera model where you can see the live footage on your phone or through a headset. Plenty of new drones fall into the sub-£100 bracket, even some with FPV mode, making them a lot cheaper and more accessible than old school R/C aircraft, and as most have hover capabilities they're a bit more agile and suitable for a wider range of terrain types too.

And even if you're just spending a hot day round a pool or lake, or having a BBQ this summer, a drone is a fun way of capturing images and video of your party or gathering. It's also cool as it gets everyone involved.

Photography drones are the usually more advanced of the two–they’re also costlier. That’s because they usually have more advanced mechanics, such a gimbals to help stabilize the drone itself or the camera in the drone. Of course it’s the camera that separates these drones from their cheaper cousins made for play. Camera drones include impressive cameras which can take both high definition pictures and video. Some camera drones even record in 4K now. These are drones for people who want to record landscapes from unique angles or survey large areas.