The Best Tiny FPV Drones for Filming in Tight Spaces

Drones have improved at a rate of knots in the last decade or so, and now you are able to film usable HD footage with a tiny, agile drone. This has lead to a revolution of creative videography. In this video, one videographer and drone-lover goes through his top picks for this niche type of drone.

The idea of using a headset to fly a tiny, rapid aircraft in first-person would have been too rousing a concept for my child-brain to have handled, and even as an adult, I find it incredibly alluring. It is exactly as fun as it sounds, and in fact, even drones that aren't FPV are brilliant. 

Not too long ago, FPV drones — particularly small and agile ones — were for the benefit of drone enthusiasts, not photographers and videographers. That is, for people who just enjoyed flying these crafts. Then, as photography drones became more powerful, there became a lot of overlap between the two disciplines. An overlap that led to great drone pilots having value to photographers and videographers, and particularly videographers being able to capture the great piloting.

Now, we are able to buy great, tiny FPV drones for only a couple of hundred dollars and achieve some staggering results of skill and creativity, adding a dynamic and exciting edge to your work. In this video, Potato Jet — who is something of a drone addict at this point — goes through his top picks for this niche subset of drones and what the perks are of each.

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Robert K Baggs is a professional portrait and commercial photographer, educator, and consultant from England. Robert has a First-Class degree in Philosophy and a Master's by Research. In 2015 Robert's work on plagiarism in photography was published as part of several universities' photography degree syllabuses.

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