I fly a Cinestar 8 with 3-axis gimbal + 5.8Ghz video downlink, Panasonic Lumix GH2/kit lens, 2x 3S 1200mAh lipo for gimbal and video tx, 1x 4S 6000mAh for copter. I get roughly 9 minutes of flight time with this setup. I think if I added a second 4S 6000 in parallel I could probably get it up...
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With no rc or flight experience I started with a Droidworx AD8 w/ MK electronics last year. First time up I crashed it and broke the landing gear. Never had a crash due to hardware/mechanical failure. Always pilot error.
This year I bought a Cinestar 8 kit with MK electronics...
Greetings!
I'm a relative newb to both RC and photography, but I'm going to be getting in to RC aerial photography for fun and profit (I hope) :)
Started early last year (2011) with a Droidworks AD8. After a brain lapse resulting in a physics related incident* I have upgraded to a CineStar 8...