drone cameras

Flying video platforms

Drone cameras are cameras mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles, used to capture aerial photography and video.

They've transformed filmmaking, real estate marketing, surveying, and journalism by making overhead shots accessible without helicopters or planes: The drone camera footage showed the full extent of the flooding.

Also called aerial drones or camera drones.

Opposites
platform/mounting

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Officer-worn video devices

dashcams · GoPro · Steadicam

operator proximity

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Devices exposing photographic negatives

mobility/flexibility

drone camerasCCTV cameras

Video surveillance equipment

security cameras · traffic cameras · doorbell cameras · nanny cams

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G