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Combining RC aircraft and video cameras is as instinctual as putting berries on your cereal. And as manufacturers come out with higher quality lenses and sensors, while shrinking camera size and weight, some pretty impressive (and expensive) rigs have been assembled to capture aerial footage.<\/p>\n

However the iPhone does not seem like a good fit for a project like this. Light: yes. Fragile: very. Important to your daily life: completely.\u00a0Watch as this unlucky (or perhaps, very lucky) fellow flies his iPhone-equipped airplane into a light post. Hilarity!<\/p>\n

When I tried to shoot some nice aerial video from my iPhone equipped rc-plane I accidently crashed into a lamppost.
\nMy aeroplane was totally smashed but my iPhone fortunately survived and captured everything on video!<\/p>\n

I’m flying over L\u00f6ber\u00f6d in south of Sweden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, done right the footage from RC aircraft can be downright cinematographic.
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This video, while not aerial, shows the workings of a pretty badass flying rig equipped with a Canon G10<\/a>, and shot on one of my favorite DSLRs for video, the Canon 7D<\/a> (although I’m starting to like the\u00a0T2i<\/a> a lot – the price and quality is undeniable).<\/p>\n

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