Furnlander
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Hi,
I am new to aerial photography, and wanted advice on whether or not this is a good idea and if so, what resources I should read and what equipment would be good $1000-2000.
I work for a furniture retail company, and we are looking into a convenient way to take videos of our furniture where we rotate a camera around the furniture, multiple times for different heights.
The first option we are considering is to use a video camera, tripod, tripod dolly, and flexible tracks around half the room, and then move the tripod manually around the furniture. We'd probably position furniture closer to track or use zoom to deal with different size objects, don't want to move tracks around.
The second option we are considering is to use a drone with many batteries, and program the drone to rotate around the object multiple times, each circle at a different height, to create a continuous video that won't need to be stitched together, and the size of the circle and final height at which it circles being different based upon the programmed path that is chosen, and which is manually chosen based upon the dimensions of each specific furniture. We do have access to a large empty room for putting furniture in for video-taking and a drone has plenty of space of moving around without crashing unless some bug/flaw or really bad piloting happens. I don't know about differences between drones, but right now I think the DJI Mavic Pro looks interesting and wonder if it is suitable for our needs
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I don't know the feasibility of using a drone for such a purpose, but I would like to explore the possibility because I like the potential perks of:
1. Automated video-taking in one continuous video. I don't want to manually and steadily push a tripod or stitch videos together because we have over 1,000 different pieces of furniture we want to take videos of eventually.
2. More height options! And maybe can program a flyover or fly-under?
3. The stills from the video may be usable for photogrammetric 3d modeling if we do enough circles at enough heights. Not sure though, had mostly horrible experience with photogrammetry on furniture.
I am new to aerial photography, and wanted advice on whether or not this is a good idea and if so, what resources I should read and what equipment would be good $1000-2000.
I work for a furniture retail company, and we are looking into a convenient way to take videos of our furniture where we rotate a camera around the furniture, multiple times for different heights.
The first option we are considering is to use a video camera, tripod, tripod dolly, and flexible tracks around half the room, and then move the tripod manually around the furniture. We'd probably position furniture closer to track or use zoom to deal with different size objects, don't want to move tracks around.
The second option we are considering is to use a drone with many batteries, and program the drone to rotate around the object multiple times, each circle at a different height, to create a continuous video that won't need to be stitched together, and the size of the circle and final height at which it circles being different based upon the programmed path that is chosen, and which is manually chosen based upon the dimensions of each specific furniture. We do have access to a large empty room for putting furniture in for video-taking and a drone has plenty of space of moving around without crashing unless some bug/flaw or really bad piloting happens. I don't know about differences between drones, but right now I think the DJI Mavic Pro looks interesting and wonder if it is suitable for our needs
.I don't know the feasibility of using a drone for such a purpose, but I would like to explore the possibility because I like the potential perks of:
1. Automated video-taking in one continuous video. I don't want to manually and steadily push a tripod or stitch videos together because we have over 1,000 different pieces of furniture we want to take videos of eventually.
2. More height options! And maybe can program a flyover or fly-under?
3. The stills from the video may be usable for photogrammetric 3d modeling if we do enough circles at enough heights. Not sure though, had mostly horrible experience with photogrammetry on furniture.
