At the end, they shot the eagle to retrieve the camera.
Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video]
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#62So this is what being Gandalf feels like.
Radagast is better with animals.
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#63is there anything that suggests this is an actual GoPro?
i own several of them and i'd imagine that because of the way they have to be mounted, their width and frontal surface area would impede flying quite significantly.
i'm inclined to think it's a more slender camera, like the Contour. http://store.contour.com/ae/us/page/home
GoPro goes way overboard with their marketing; they've become the Kleenex of action cams.
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#64is there anything that suggests this is an actual GoPro? i own several of them and i'd imagine that because of the way they have to be mounted, their width and frontal surface area would impede flying quite significantly. i'm inclined to think it's a more slender camera, like the Contour. http://store.contour.com/ae/us/page/home GoPro goes way overboard with their marketing; they've become the Kleenex of action cams.
I'm pretty doubtful it's a GoPro as well. I think the title was just pulled from Reddit.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
The one video I really remember was a drone with a GoPro I think in Bangkok and it was going straight down the sides of skyscrapers and going over the top of the city. It was an amazing video and I can't seem to find it anymore.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L55M7_gu87I around 2:19
AWESOME. You just completely made my day!!!
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#67is there anything that suggests this is an actual GoPro? i own several of them and i'd imagine that because of the way they have to be mounted, their width and frontal surface area would impede flying quite significantly. i'm inclined to think it's a more slender camera, like the Contour. http://store.contour.com/ae/us/page/home GoPro goes way overboard with their marketing; they've become the Kleenex of action cams.
Yeah, Midland Radio (no affiliation) also makes a slimmer action camera called the XTC: https://midlandusa.com/xtc-cameras/
GoPro's brand definitely doing that Kleenex thing where it's just the word for a small tough camera.
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#68I'd quite like to see what it looks like with the visual acuity of an eagle as well. Or at least some representation. EG where we see blobs of colour as cars in a car park, the eagle sees the mouse under the front bumper of the red one.
I'd like to see some facsimile of this as well. Googling a bit unearthed this description of what it might look like:
"Eagles and hawks are neither near sighted nor far-sighted. Since long focal length lenses have a narrow angle of view, they have poor peripheral vision. Hawks and eagles have to turn their heads to see more of their surroundings. They can turn their heads 180 degrees, not quite as much as the owls, which can turn their heads 270 degrees. In contrast, human eyes have a short focal length, so we have a wider angle of view, nearly 180 degrees horizontally, so we don't have to turn our heads unless we need to look behind us, but we don't see as much detail as hawks can when something is far away..." Source: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2011011108374...
So it would be a representation of a much longer focal length with a much narrower field of vision.
Related fun fact: Owl's don't have eyballs they have eyetubes. They can't rotate their eyes in their sockets at all, which is why they can turn their head ~270 degrees, and why they have such an incredibly long focal length.
Re: Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video]
#69is there anything that suggests this is an actual GoPro? i own several of them and i'd imagine that because of the way they have to be mounted, their width and frontal surface area would impede flying quite significantly. i'm inclined to think it's a more slender camera, like the Contour. http://store.contour.com/ae/us/page/home GoPro goes way overboard with their marketing; they've become the Kleenex of action cams.
Yeah, Midland Radio (no affiliation) also makes a slimmer action camera called the XTC: https://midlandusa.com/xtc-cameras/ GoPro's brand definitely doing that Kleenex thing where it's just the word for a small tough camera.
For those curious, the word for the phenomenon is 'genericization'[1], though I am particularly fond of the more colorful synonym 'genericide'[2], even if it's a bit etymologically unsound.
For an example of attempts at prevention, see [3], and remember, images aren't 'photoshopped', they're "enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.". :)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
[2] http://www.legalzoom.com/intellectual-property-rights/tradem...
[3] http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html#photo...
Re: Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video]
#70is there anything that suggests this is an actual GoPro? i own several of them and i'd imagine that because of the way they have to be mounted, their width and frontal surface area would impede flying quite significantly. i'm inclined to think it's a more slender camera, like the Contour. http://store.contour.com/ae/us/page/home GoPro goes way overboard with their marketing; they've become the Kleenex of action cams.
The peregrine falcon videos linked to in the article used a "808 #16 HD Key Chain Camera" attached to the bird's back with a little harness. While they are much larger birds, I suspect something similar was used for the golden eagle video.