Requirements

The photography drone is almost similar to the other kind of drones, but with extra payload and a good camera. You can guess why the photography drone has to have extra payload: because it will carry a camera. If you use some kind of small weight digital camera, then your drone does not necessarily have to be able to have a good amount of payload. You can use your existing drone that we have already built with some customizations. The thing you need to remember is that the more you can control your drone and camera from the ground, the more you will be able to do good aerial photography. If you build a quadcopter as a photography drone, then whenever one of the motor fails, you will literally be doomed. If you build a hexacopter, ...

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