If you have been following Fstoppers this year, you probably know that Lee Morris tested the DJI Phantom out in Charleston and crashed it into a marsh. The Phantom is really awesome, but comes with some risks. Chase Jarvis wasn't satisfied with the quality of GoPro footage on his Phantom and tried attaching a Sony RX100 II to it instead. Does it work? No. No it does not.
[Via Gizmodo]
it was made on purpose anyway.
cheap advertising for this jerk.
a 600$ drone and a black box acting as camera dummy.
now he gets advertising space on every photo blog that has to fill it´s pages with crap.
and his name makes the round once more......
Live and learn indeed - what's with all the haters comments though?! He tried something and it didn't work out. He wasn't upset, so why are you?
Yeah, seems like a lot of hate. He also started over land, lost control of it, and it went out over the water. Whether he forced it over water or not, better to ditch it as far away from people as possible vs. bringing it back and slicing open someone on your crew.
Dear Iceland,
Love your pristine wilderness. Thought you might prefer it be enhanced with some electronic waste. Haha! Fail often fail harder. Gotta go.
Great comments, there is nothing better than putting a fellow photographer down for experimenting with the art of photography. So what if he destroyed a 600 dollar rig that is what insurance is for just in case stuff happens and in this case stuff happened. People amaze me how quick they are to criticize another artist. Here is an idea get out there and do your own experiments and create something wonderful. By no means am I a fan boy of anyone, im just saying turn your negetive energy into positive energy instead of waisting time being mad and insulting other photographers.
There went over $1200 in gear. But what I didn't understand is why Chase would try something like that with a card that had footage already on it. That little part was more of an oversight than risk-taking. Hopefully, the footage wasn't important to the assignment.
Although he laughed about it, I can see behind Chase's expression and voice that he was kicking himself pretty hard. I know I would be.
But yea, risk-taking and pushing your limits is part of the game. This is especially true if you're operating at very highly competitive levels. They don't always pan out, but when they do... ohhh man!
Wow this guy is such a jerk. Have not seen a photographer with such an idiotic attitude before.
Is he 12? Risk that he is talking about is simply for who gave him the insurance money to play. And the providers of the gadget, even the crew who helped him filming this. They took the big risk of being involved in such a failure stupid video.
Is it himself defending it in comments with fake accounts?
Sad.
I think since he lost $3k+ in equipment, he is just trying to have a positive attitude about the situation... At least Chase is not kicking and screaming like a baby
It wouldn't be surprising to me if he or his employees were defending him judging by some of the videos I've seen of the people around him carrying on like the entourage of a rock star. Except he's just another photographer who wants to be internet famous allegedly.
Two things:
1) Dude has too much money.
2) Why would he file an insurance claim for a $1200 piece of equipment?
Lite fishing line prior to sending it off... At least you'd be able to grapple it back
What a Joke and a huge waste of gear. The Phantom is a toy, get serious or go home.
I just want that sick "captain" hat.
Dear FStoppers,
I would like to formally apologize on behalf of the veraciously cynical commentators that have unfortunately happened upon the comment section of your most dynamite website. It has come to my attention, in light of recent events (more specifically regarding this post) that people on the internet are astonishingly yet undoubtedly a "donkeys rear end". However it has long been my firm conviction that perhaps the problem isn't that everyone on the internet these days is of the aforementioned "a-hole" nature; but instead that all of the normal and well-tempered folks have chosen to stay off of it.
I would like to give my most wicked applause to Sir Chase Jarvis on his very brilliant upload of this video demonstration of what it looks like to fail. It is important to keep a level headed whit about ones self in our overly socially networked day of sharing only the highlights in ones life. As your own staff writer Sir Gary Martin so gallantly quoted last week “A master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried”.
SO to the naysayers I say NAY!
And to the FStoppers team and Mr. Jarvis I say keep it up! that was legit.
-Joshua
Your words are so extreme and radical man, to the max.
You could see this coming when he puts a sandwich (who has what looks like Subway in the middle of Iceland anyway?) in the box of a piece of precision instrument. LOLs. By which I mean the opposite.
Evidently I'm just jealous that I'm not cool and successful enough to crash stuff into lakes ...
I sympathise – I lost my first drone asking it to go a bit too far (over the English channel) with a bit too little juice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_w6Qkehy9Q