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Snap launches its first drone

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Re: Snap launches its first drone

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Post by xarope »

roughly wrote: post #158
olafura wrote: post #36

Refreshingly honest about the video quality you should expect in the main promo video. Typical problems like dynamic range, color profile, light bleed and tracking problems with the top of the head being cut off at one point. Pretty typical unless you spend more money on your drone or camera equipment. There are so many companies that fake the footage or pick much easier shooting locations.

I think this is going to be one of those things where we learn that nobody actually cares about any of that outside these forums. MP3s were garbage, early camera phones were garbage, Snap picture quality generally is garbage, bluetooth headphones suck, all of these things were and are decried by the tech community, and it turns out that people just don't care, because even at garbage quality it's still cool to have a…

I do some extreme sports for hobbies, where I am often the only person with the sense of mind to take shots with my trusty olympus TG2 (yes it's old, but still works) of others with me, whether underwater or 6Km above. My professional photographer friend often berates me for my framing, perspective, lighting choices etc, but when I'm hanging almost upside down and only using one hand covered by a mitt, whilst nobody else has the energy to pose or even think of stopping, I think there's only so much you can do.

Anyway, the point is, my friends have lots of pictures of themselves doing these activities, versus non at all.

Re: Snap launches its first drone

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Post by jolux »

emteycz wrote: post #336
eptcyka wrote: post #330

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Camera phones sucked until iPhone 4 at least.

No, camera phones were very good since the Sony Ericsson days - ~2006. I have a book from that era all about mobile camera photography, written by a professional photographer, and illustrated only with pictures shot on a Nokia phone. The pictures are of excellent printable quality with amazing colors.

~nobody used the Sony Ericsson devices though, everyone had stuff like the Motorola Razr with terrible little cameras in them.

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Post by pkdpic »

Finally, our species can take more selfies!

Sometimes I think my favorite part of the future / present / whatever is how dystopian and utopian it is at the same time with stuff like this.

I sincerely love and hate everything about this. <3

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Post by hiptobecubic »

aeontech wrote: post #310
heavyset_go wrote: post #305

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I got a pair of bone conduction headphones that allow me to still hear my surroundings while on my bike. Nothing goes in your ears that blocks sound. Agree with your point, though.

I was looking for something like this but gave up due to difficulty sifting through reviews… which ones did you go with, and how do you like them?

I have aftershokz aeropex. If you are hoping for studio monitors you're going to be disappointed. If you just want to listen to podcasts or "workout music" then I think they are great. I use mine way more often around the house than I expected that I would.

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Post by hawthornio »

spoils19 wrote: post #340
void-pointer wrote: post #252

People saying that this can’t compete with DJI are missing the point. This product knows its target market (hint, not the people who browse HN) and, based on my initial first impressions, I think it’s nailed it. Forgive me for a slightly contrived analogy, but if a DJI Mavic is a DSLR, and a DJI Mini is a portable point-and-shoot camera, then Pixy is a Polaroid. It’s certainly not got the highest picture quality, doe…

> not the people who browse HN Why would people who browse HN be left out of the target market? I think I can speak for many that we'd be interested in this product if it could compete with some of DJI's offerings. Lacking that + any sort of open-source software that we can go in and tinker with, and it's a hard sell to anybody, not just HN readers.

If this is satire you are a genius

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Post by whatshisface »

ceejayoz wrote: post #345
whatshisface wrote: post #341

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Drone photography predates selfie sticks.

No, it doesn’t. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/23/photograph-1...

If you're allowed to use that as an example of a selfie stick, then I should be allowed to use James Wallace Black’s 1860 aerial photography. :-)

https://time.com/longform/aerial-photography-drones-history/

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Post by google234123 »

recuter wrote: post #283
1024core wrote: post #277

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It's against the law.

I think if people are allowed their buzzing flying camera doodads everywhere my nose diving metal eagle raining sudden drone death from above is in good fun. Now I am the law. Besides the killer bird will obviously be powered by an AI, can't blame me for nothing.

I would be happy to call the police on you in this hypothetical situation. It would be a pretty open-and-shut case :)

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Post by shpx »

andkenneth wrote: post #282
serf wrote: post #190

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I was too busy being deafened by Frank Sinatra a split second after the rotor noise played to even remember hearing the rotor noise; rather than faking the silence they just over-wrote my memory of it in the advertisement with shock-and-awe style Sinatra -- I guess that's okay.

And that's pretty much the idea - they expect you to put music over whatever you've captured anyway.

But while you're doing whatever it is that you're capturing, whether or not there is a loud humming noise the entire time can completely change the dynamic, especially if other people are around.

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Post by mbesto »

windowsrookie wrote: post #234
dymk wrote: post #193

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They're down 45% in the last 6 months. 53% the last 12. They're flagging. None of their cutesy hardware has taken off in the past (remember spectacles?).

In the last 6 months Netflix is down 71%, Nvidia 23%, Facebook 36%, AMD 25%, Amazon 14%, General Motors 29%, Alphabet 20%, Volkswagen 32%, etc. Are these all flagging companies as well?

Disingenuous.

Snap is nearly its IPO price. SNAP's last quarter revenue was down from 4 straight quarters of growth.

FB, NVDA, AMD, AMZN, GM, GOOGL, etc. are all up orders of magnitude from IPO.

It's a fair argument to say that the market is being corrected, and that SNAP is not on a trajectory similar to it's peers (FB, TWTR).

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