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airhead969 6y ago
I could only think: TOO LOW - TERRAIN! PULL UP! TOO LOW - TERRAIN! PULL UP!
- HaloZero 6y ago
  haha, I really thought some magma might have hit the drone when the drone went over the cone.
raverbashing 6y ago
I am surprised the drone survived (or did it?)
- yccs27 6y ago
  The drone might have streamed the video back to the operator, so it's not a given that the drone survived. Since the photographer knew they were going to take a risky shot, it's not even unlikely. Maybe that's why the footage stops in the middle of the lava spray...
- MrDresden 6y ago
  Perhaps a calculated risk, in case media outlets want to use the footage for anything the royalties might outweigh the cost of the drone. Would be wasteful though.
techdragon 6y ago
In case anyone doesn’t notice this little detail... right in the last few seconds you can see one of the erupting chunks of lava pass out of the frame in the vertical direction. It looks like the drone made a lucky pass through the top of the erupting lava plume, narrowly missing red hot chunks of lava. To clarify... it looks like that, can anyone more familiar with the original post confirm more details? Because it could obviously just have been a trick of the drone’s speed combined with the camera field of view just making it look like it whizzed under a chunk of red hot lava... which is still neat camera work... but it would be so much more awesome if it wasn’t just a camera effect and it actually did fly through between erupting chunks of lava.
- csomar 6y ago
  It's not clear if the drone survived. The video is cut right after it should have been hit with the lava.
  - PUSH_AX 6y ago
    I'm no expert but I don't know if you could recover the HD version of the footage without the drone coming home, perhaps only the FPV version. Happy to be corrected though.
    - olex 6y ago
      With DJI FPV, you can get a recording of the HD signal in the goggles. It's not as good as a GoPro/action cam footage recorded on board, but infinitely better than what ground-recorded analog FPV footage looks like.
      - phendrenad2 6y ago
        Also possible for the drone to fall into lava and still transmit for a few seconds, maybe enough to get the higher-quality buffer?
        6y ago

airhead969 6y ago

I could only think: TOO LOW - TERRAIN! PULL UP! TOO LOW - TERRAIN! PULL UP!

HaloZero 6y ago
haha, I really thought some magma might have hit the drone when the drone went over the cone.

raverbashing 6y ago

I am surprised the drone survived (or did it?)

yccs27 6y ago
The drone might have streamed the video back to the operator, so it's not a given that the drone survived. Since the photographer knew they were going to take a risky shot, it's not even unlikely. Maybe that's why the footage stops in the middle of the lava spray...
MrDresden 6y ago
Perhaps a calculated risk, in case media outlets want to use the footage for anything the royalties might outweigh the cost of the drone. Would be wasteful though.

techdragon 6y ago

In case anyone doesn’t notice this little detail... right in the last few seconds you can see one of the erupting chunks of lava pass out of the frame in the vertical direction. It looks like the drone made a lucky pass through the top of the erupting lava plume, narrowly missing red hot chunks of lava. To clarify... it looks like that, can anyone more familiar with the original post confirm more details? Because it could obviously just have been a trick of the drone’s speed combined with the camera field of view just making it look like it whizzed under a chunk of red hot lava... which is still neat camera work... but it would be so much more awesome if it wasn’t just a camera effect and it actually did fly through between erupting chunks of lava.

csomar 6y ago
It's not clear if the drone survived. The video is cut right after it should have been hit with the lava.
- PUSH_AX 6y ago
  I'm no expert but I don't know if you could recover the HD version of the footage without the drone coming home, perhaps only the FPV version. Happy to be corrected though.
  - olex 6y ago
    With DJI FPV, you can get a recording of the HD signal in the goggles. It's not as good as a GoPro/action cam footage recorded on board, but infinitely better than what ground-recorded analog FPV footage looks like.
    - phendrenad2 6y ago
      Also possible for the drone to fall into lava and still transmit for a few seconds, maybe enough to get the higher-quality buffer?
      - 6y ago