Also, the gimbal is the perfect accessory to get unique content where I can’t fly a drone – which I use as much or more than the drone itself. You have filmmakers helping sculpt the product in terms of usability, function, and future updates. Karma was built with filming in mind and so everything from the stabilization, to the flight movements, to the gimbal are all catered to being buttery smooth for professional looking video. Karma, as a drone, does that perfectly, and with very good results. I’ve wanted a drone that I can get aerial shots to cut to in video as well as the ability to take some sweet aerial photos. For me, I think about what my intentions are with the product, and if what I’m buying suits those needs. It’s easy to get wrapped up in specs or online comparison charts to determine whether a product is good or not. Does that mean it’s right for you? That’s your choice to decide what your intentions are and what you’re looking for. Will I get one? Probably not I’ve got my Karma system and it delivers everything I need & more as a filmmaker personally. I welcome anyone/any company that strives for technological advancements. Of course I think the Mavic is awesome – I’m a tech geek at heart, which is why I do what I do. Yes, you can go out and solve all of your needs by buying this or that to make ends meet, but GoPro delivers it all together with the quality, support, ecosystem, and brand affiliation/recognition. It’s a drone, a handheld/mountable gimbal, and an awesome waterproof camera for everything else in your life. With Karma you’re buying into a system – an end to end filming solution. Are GoPro and DJI in similar spaces? Yes, if you look at it solely as a drone however, at the end of the day they are entirely different products. I’ll address the DJI Mavic, because I know you’ll ask. GoPro has the power to change that in a very short amount of time. Well, drones are still in the vein of onlookers saying “whoa, is that a drone? Where did you get it? How much does it cost? How far does it go?”. I’m always met with a response of “I know what GoPro is, duh!”. Out of habit, now, when people ask what I do, I say “I work for GoPro”, then make a little gesture with my hand in the form of a camera on my head and say “the little sports camera”. As you are reading my blog, it’s hard to imagine yourself out of the tech space that you probably exist in – but the everyday mass consumer probably doesn’t know DJI – in the same way that when I started rocking a GoPro on my head everyone asked me what it was. Couple that with the GoPro brand recognition, and its extensive distribution in stores across the world, and you’ll have everyone and their mom’s knowing what a drone is, and where to buy one, by the middle of next year. User experience, portability, integration are the key factors that set it apart from the rest of the drone industry. GoPro set out to solve the problems it can do, and do it well. What people forget is that it actually takes real human resources (brains & hours) to build a technology division from scratch, develop hardware and software that works in harmony, and get it to market. There are a lot of comments online about why doesn’t Karma have this, why doesn’t it have that? To be frank, it takes time and resources to develop technology to get to where we want it & need it to be. They make great products with awesome tech. GoPro never set out to beat DJI at its own game – they have a ton of resources and have been in the drone game for a long time. That’s not to say it can’t do what you need – it’s ultra-capable, but when you go through the experience of using Karma, you forget how arduous and difficult aerial video & photo capture has been over the last 5 years. This is how easy it should have always been! Karma is unique in the drone space in that it’s geared towards non-hobbyist drone pilots – made for the everyday film/photo/gadget enthusiast. There were no gimbals or stabilizers, but that didn’t matter – simply getting a shot from the air was unique enough, stable or not! Fast forward to today: GoPro has come out with the ultimate setup in terms of consumer ease. So we got our aerial shots… of an empty track… and it was amazing. It was flown by a trained UAV pilot that would assemble the octocopter on site, and use his expertise to convince the leaders of the Supercross program that it was safe to fly at the venue (while no one was around). It required bringing an octocopter, flown in a custom pelican case the size of a small go-cart which weighed over 100 pounds. 5 years ago I was working on the GoPro media team (as I am today), and we wanted to try to get a GoPro on a drone to get some aerial shots of a Supercross race (moto bikes in an arena). Technology has come an extremely long way in the past few years when it comes to drones. GoPro Karma Gimbal – Coming Soon Karma Drone
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