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              trango
              October 10, 2012
              Jerrit Pruyn

              Stunning Helicopter Drone Footage of Climbers on Trango Tower

              Armed with a RC helicopter drone and a head-up display, Mammut “pilot” Dedicam Andrew Peacock navigates while Remo Masina captures some stunning video of the Trango Tower in Pakistan. See more of Remo Masina’s work at Dedicam.tv . This sample footage will be used in Mammut’s upcoming 150 Year Peak Project video.

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              • http://twitter.com/wkletersteeg W van de Kletersteeg

                Definitely stunning. I love this development of (relatively) cheap copter shots. Just using an RC drone instead of a full size helicopter. Briljant. Too bad these things don’t carry proper camera’s yet. At 1:26 you can clearly see some really bad rolling shutter effects (the mountain looks like a wobbly jelly pudding).

              • http://twitter.com/damoke David Mosquera

                the camera doesnt seem that bad, the problem i think is the stabilization, probably done with FCP smoothcam.

              • Christopher Mims

                ah the quad chopper.  Would be a fun project to make one of these.  BTS fstoppers original one day?   Great footage, these things are tricky to fly sometimes.

              • tdayley

                That was incredible. I definitely have got to get one of those some day. Looks like a ton of fun to use. 

              • http://twitter.com/TheCrazyLudwig Ian Ludwig

                Very cool. Scary slip at 1:40 in.

              • Tommi Käppi

                Is RED enough real camera? 
                http://videotechnology.blogspot.fi/2011/11/red-epic-digital-cinema-camera-on.html

              • http://www.hillsboroaviation.com/en/ Hannah Edwards

                Wow! Amazing footage. I can’t believe anyone has the guts to climb that mountain. Crazy! Beautiful view though.

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