Yuneec Tornado Plus H920: Senior drone with Panasonic 4K camera
[09:15 Wed,15.February 2017 by Thomas Richter]
The new series H920 Plus is the much improved successor of H920 Multicopter and is intended for professional recording of Photos- and video from the air. So the body of the equipped with six rotors Tornado is now made of carbon fiber H920 Plus - the camera is stabilized and controlled by a 360-degree 3-axis gimbal. To when shooting can be drawn not to come to the fore landing gear. The maximum flight time of with integrated camera and batteries around 5kg heavy drone is 24 minutes. Equipped with a 7 "large touch screen, two joysticks and several witeren control elements remote control based on Android and has a range of up to 1.6km - Video to retransmit 720p live with their help can also eg via Google Maps waypoints (including. Heightand actions) are defined for the route. The sitting of the foldable arms rotors can easily be removed by hand without tools via quick-release. PIC 1: Yuneec Tornado Plus H920 aerial photographs can also by means of intelligent flight modes are shot, such as the orbit or POI mode (the camera encircles the pilot or a selected object and takes up to), the Follow Me / Watch mode (the camera follows and films), the Journey mode (for air-selfies) or the Cable Cam mode in which the drone takes off a pre-planned route, including programmable camera movements. PIC 2: Camera Gimbaleinheit CG04 Panasonic has supplied controls the camera: Camera of CG04 Camera Gimbal unit has been specifically designed for the Yuneec Hexacopter, it can take 16 megapixel photos and 4K video andu003chtmlu003e has a changeable optics - equipted by default it is with a 3x optical zoom. Other matching lenses are the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm f2.0, the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45mm f1.8 and the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 EZ. The Yuneec Tornado H920 Plus costs 2500-4000 dollars depending on configuration. PIC 3: Remote Control Separately, the www.yuneec.com/en_US/products/tornado/h920/proaction.html be obtained (ProAction two-handed grip) for the CG04 Camera Gimbal unit, which enables the to use the Gimbal H920 Plus with the camera on the ground for steady shots. also at the bottom which is equipped with a plurality of operating elements for controlling the camera. It costs around 1,600 dollars. PIC4: ProAction two-handed grip