Some RC Heli footage with a 7D

[trentp]

Went and shot with a friend whos a pro mountainbiker to test out my new aerial rig, check it out!

http://vimeo.com/12281806

 

[Jason Ramsey]

nice vid. do you have a link to the heli and camera mount that was used on this? I'd like to check out some info on it.

 

[Rakesh Jacob]

Beautiful job man!!!
What lens did you use, did it have IS and what was the aperture at?

 

[trentp]

The heli is a custom Trex 700 electric purpose built for lifting a camera with a Photoship One 2x gimbal on it. I plan on doing a video explaining more about it with some behind the scenes footage when I get a chance.

This is the rig:

 

[trentp]

Beautiful job man!!!
What lens did you use, did it have IS and what was the aperture at?

Thanks man, it was a sigma 10-20 no IS, shot at about f11 I believe.

 

[Elvis Deane]

Amazing footage, especially those long overhead shots! Did you have to do much stabilization in post or does it fly smooth? I was on a shoot with an RC copter recently and the breeze knocked it around quite a bit.

 

[trentp]

Amazing footage, especially those long overhead shots! Did you have to do much stabilization in post or does it fly smooth? I was on a shoot with an RC copter recently and the breeze knocked it around quite a bit.

I ran smoothcam on all the aerial shots although most of them were fine without it.

Yeah, wind can be a real pain!

 

[Ian-T]

Nice. Great work. What shutter speed?

 

[trentp]

Nice. Great work. What shutter speed?

1/125 since I was shooting 60p

 

[Ian-T]

Yeah thanks. I know some folks like to crank it way up which usually leaves a stacato effect. But yours was very smooth.

 

[saint seiya]

amazing dude, just amazing.

 

[Isaac_Brody]

This looks fantastic!

 

[krick]

trent, this is great stuff. Wow ! Love it.

 

[bwwd]

looks great,last 2 jumps are amazing.

 

[Anthonyb]

Awesome. How did you maintain focus? Just put the lens on infinity? OR did you have a remote FF attached?

 

[Everts]

The heli is a custom Trex 700 electric purpose built for lifting a camera with a Photoship One 2x gimbal on it. I plan on doing a video explaining more about it with some behind the scenes footage when I get a chance.

This is the rig:

How much would something like this cost I have a project for next year and I would like to do some Low RC shots

In the meantime we've joined a local professional RC group .

Thanks