From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Review of drones that are meant for selfies

Review of drones that are meant for selfies

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Review of drones that are meant for selfies

- As drone technology has taken off. I'm going to hate myself for saying that, but I'm going to stick with it here, 'cause the cat's out of the bag. As drone technology has developed one company, DJI, has really kind of come out as the market leader for consumer up through a certain range of industry drones, but we're starting to see a new class of drones appearing. And I'm talking about drones for photo and video, not just drones for recreation and racing and that kind of thing. There's a new class of drone coming out for photo and video and the kind of best term that's come up with it so far is selfie drone, which is not a name of a category that I'm crazy about. But the reason that name has stuck is because these are small, lightweight drones that you can run on your own and that are well suited to getting footage of yourself in locations where maybe your arm isn't long enough to get the shot that you want. We're going to take a look at a particular one today. Not necessarily to…

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