GoPro Is Ready To Enter The Drone Market

DJI Phantom

I have owned a GoPro since they first started manufacturing them for surfing. Living in Southern California what respectable photographer doesn’t own a surf camera? I have friends who have the DJI Phantom and I’ve seriously contemplated buying my own.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that GoPro will be entering the drone market. I think I’m going to have to wait and see how this play out. I hope they’re waterproof.

The report says that the new devices will retail for $500 to $1,000, putting GoPro in direct competition with the current consumer drone darling, DJI, and its wildly popular Phantom line.

Colin Guinn, the former head of DJI’s North American operations and a current executive at 3D Robotics, makers of the Iris+ drone, sounds a little reticent about GoPro’s reported plan. “I’m happy to let GoPro keep making great cameras and we’ll keep making great copters,” he told WSJ.

See the original article at Gizmodo

Source: Gizmodo

Image Source: Nevit Dilmen

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