Australian Hunter

The rise and rise of drones

The world of drones just keeps getting better and better. Drone size is reducing, battery power lasts much longer, range is out to kilometres and the on-board smarts are outstanding. Now, you can pick up a feature packed drone for less than $1000. My wife Kathy and I do a lot of photography and we had been thinking about acquiring a drone for some time. When the price dropped below the $1000 mark, we bought a DJI Mini-2 from a local stockist.

While Kathy was solely concerned in more outstanding landscape perspectives than can be had on foot,

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