Sony AirPeak S1 drone released! Carries a Sony Alpha FF camera

[brett8883]

Sony announces the $9,000 professional drone it teased at CES

Sony says it’ll keep the camera steady, even when it’s windy

www.theverge.com

$9000 and can carry a variety of Sony Alpha full frame cameras including the A7SIII and A7RIV.

22 min max flight time.

I’m definitely interested in this. $9000 isn’t terrible especially if you already have the cameras. Will be interesting how this plays out. It’s the dream to take your ground based camera to the sky and have full control over the camera interface. Questions remain about how well it flies and how good the control link will be.

Direct competition to the Inspire 2 which really didn’t have any competition in this price range till now. That competition highly depends on if you already have the cameras and lenses though. $9000 is less than an Inspire 2 with an X7 camera which is only APS-C and can only carry DJIs fixed 2.8 lenses.

 

[MavicAir2Marc]

For that kind of money, 12 minutes with a payload doesn't seem like very much. It remains to be seen how rugged the transmission system is in the real world, what kind of apps will be compatible and how it's going to mature as it goes along. For my money, there's just too many unanswered questions for now.

 

[GFields]

Ihanks for sharing!