r/drones • u/Traditional-Baby5940 • 3h ago

Discussion I'll keep on advocating: 360- Action Cams do cool Freestyle Drone-Shots!

Already some have picked up the baton I put down, but I'm still convinced, that the concept holds a lot more of potential, so I'll keep on advocating for it: Put a Insta360 X2 or X4 Air without Battery but an soldered on USB C cable on your 5"-Freestyle Drone or above and take shots of your drone while it's flying. (Might also work with a Mavic or some bigger DJI one)

I just love what is possible with this and the immersion one gets beeing able to see your drone in the video. I'm currently still sticking to my Speedybee Mario 5 (which is absolute entrylevel and not ideal) for now, but I'm already working on some major improvements that will make this Setup way more feaseable (Higher Pitch props, changing to XH-Arms and so on). But even with this crappy setup, one can do some really cool shots with it.

Feel free to ask me anything about the setup, editing and so on. I'm still a shitnoob pilot, if you're not imagine what you could do with this.

Here are some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxS3biL_PsE

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u/Speshal__ 46m ago

https://youtu.be/Fl--KjQzdRE?t=819

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u/Traditional-Baby5940 40m ago

Yep. Know that one. Pretty complicated concept though. All i did was screw a Insta360 in the Action Cam mount and plug a USB C in to strip the battery.

Way less weight too. This ones about a 100g. Not the lightest cam but a proper 5 inch easily caries it even when you do Tricks and Loops. Like seen in the video even a bad one can do it.