This is surely the first advantage of a drone, its ability to capture beautiful aerial images. Whether it’s taking pictures, shooting videos or simply enjoying a place from another point of view, camera drones are the most sought after today.
Choosing a drone with a mini camera remains complicated, however, as the models on the market are numerous and diverse. To help you choose, we suggest you to discover our buying guide for the best drones with camera. Knowing about the Drone 720x Review offers you a proper understanding of the whole.
Depending on your budget and your level of flying, find the most successful aircraft models, offering you at the same time exceptional video quality for aerial photography.
Drone with camera, which one to choose?
Entry level: good video quality at low prices
- A cheap drone with camera, it’s possible. There are indeed drones with high quality onboard camera for a really affordable price. We have selected two that we will compare:
- Let’s start with our little H107C drone of the Chinese brand well known in the world of drones. Sold fifty euros, we might wonder if its video quality is really the rendezvous. And yet! The H107C is equipped with a 0.5 megapixel HD camera to film in AVI format of 720 x 420 pixels which is quite acceptable!
- This mini drone has many advantages besides its low price and the video quality it offers. Because of its small size (8.4 X 8.4 cm), it can slip into places inaccessible by larger drones, it can perform acrobatic tricks and it is also easily manageable. It will therefore correspond to novice pilots and videographers with a small budget wishing to learn aerial photography.
- Among the drones of entry-level, but a little more expensive (approximately 200 €), one finds the AR Drone 2.0 of the French mark Parrot also equipped with a 720P camera and video full HD . With a range of 12 minutes (against 7 for the Hubsan), this drone is equipped with a protective hull allowing the flight inside safely (in case of impact on an obstacle, the hulls will protect the drone). Thus, this model is also very popular with novice drivers.
Full HD drones and 4K: a foot in the high end
Now, let’s go upmarket with the full HD and 4K camera drones to have an optimal video quality. In this category, we selected 3 models:
- The drone Parrot Bebop 2
- The DJI Phantom 4 drone
- The drones DJI Mavic 2
Let’s start with the Bebop 2 posted at a price of 500 €. The Bebop 2 comes with a 14-megapixel camera fish-eye type to make videos and photos in full HD 1080p . The captured images are stable thanks to the digital stabilizer 3 axes which the drone is endowed with. The swiveling camera provides a 180 ° field of view. On this type of model, the range is also doubled with about 25 minutes of flight time.
We still go upmarket with drones equipped with a 4K camera. This is the case of DJI Phantom 4 costing about 1200 €. On this ultra-developed model, in addition to the 12-megapixel camera and its ability to film in 4K, there are other elements to make photos and videos of high quality as sensors, even in full speed. The Phantom 4 can indeed go up to 70 km / h and has a maximum flight time of 25 minutes.
