Anything's possible

Staff · Issue 71, Mar/Apr 2013 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Canon SLR, GoPro, Lytro

Editorial Anything’s possible In a world where it’s too easy to look at the bleak side these are very exciting times, certainly in terms of photography. A couple of months ago, following a fortuitous conversation in a model helicopter shop, I was put in touch with a local guy who was into aerial photography. I was looking for an affordable way of filming from one boat to another from various angles. I e mailed him but he was overseas ‘flying’ an ROV as part of the salvage of the Costa Concordia - the cruise ship which ran aground in the Mediterranean in 2012. On his return we met up and he gave me a demonstration of his octocopter; a flying platform powered by eight propellors under which was a separately controllable Canon SLR camera. The result was a most impressive piece of kit and it got me to thinking that there are now no subjects that can’t be filmed; everything is possible and fr…