That camera is $900 on its own. How many are going to pay $900 for a camera upgrade on a $1300 multirotor?
Me,
The only reason it's hard to spend $800 on is because it still spits out barely prosumer h.264 but until people start realizing that's not a good thing, it will keep happening.
That Z3 is better than the camera on the P4 and the X3 or X5 on the P4 and it absolutely destroys the piece of crap cgo3+.
The x5R is the only real good integrated camera (on the prosumer market because it shoots raw thanks to its SSD companion).
Even though the p4 shoots much better than the CGO, they are all prosumer crap at the end of the day.
You want good photography from Yuneec? Put down the H and pick up the Tornado which has a miniature GH4 and you'll have a prosumer camera. Or make one and put a real DSLR on it.
The zoom of 3.5 is a marketing tool that I knew was coming. What use do you have of going 3.5x closer when you can just move forward 20 yards in the same amount of time.
I'm always amazed by people and what companies can pull right over their heads. With an aerial photography, with vistas, unless you have like 500x zoom (optical) mix it's pointless.
3.5 zoom is goofy. And putting a digital zoom on a camera is not only goofy, it's stupid. It just shows you how exactly what you can do with your editor but not let you see what you're recording.
Here is a marketing ploy "unlimited digital zoom on the typhoon h" because technically, you have it.
Let's call spades a spade. The Typhoon H is super fun to fly but it, like all of its predecessors in the Yuneec family, have cameras that aren't worth the card you put in them.
Don't get me wrong DJI cameras are a lot better but still suck, yes, even the X3 and X5 to a lesser degree but at least you can switch lenses and like on the z3, you can change the aperture which is pretty **** necessary. Being locked in at the third stop is annoying as ****.
My still camera that doesn't fly costs 3x what my inspire cost me. And who knows how many times more than the H and the 4.
I expect mediocre results from the cameras that fly and great ones from the ones that don't.
But at least the ones that take mediocre images with bad video codecs shoot raw DNG (P4, Inspire et al) but if I try to let my Sony a7 fly, it just falls down and breaks.
I hope a point was made here.
The point really is, you guys want more than you can have for the money you want to spend. They are fitting a BOAT AND ANOTHER BOAT load of technology in our flying cameras and if you want more, it's gonna cost you.
I posted on a similar thread on phantompilots that said this truth "the warranty on the Red Epic Deagon 6k" costs more than 3 typhoon Hs or P4s. The warranty!
The camera isn't even that expensive at $50K.
The drone revolution for better or worse have made expectations for technology grow too fast I think.