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« on: June 29, 2017, 11:02:31 PM »
Hi,
thank you all for your good advice.
In my opinion choosing A7R/A7R II as a payload for multicopter for photogrammetry is not a smart choice for the following reasons:
- weight, body only is 620gr and this payload will need bigger gimbal also
- 5 axes image stabilization, this is no good for processing because each image will have different camera internal parameters and the processing software will approximate them with a greater error than will do for normal camera.
- large sensor is not needed. same GSD can be obtained by flying at same altitude with smaller sensor but having a lens with longer focal distance
- (not sure) A7R, A7R II cannot take one picture per second
- shorter battery life
- expensive payload
I would have a look to A6300 which has a great sensor in it, no image stabilization, body weights only 400gr and can take at least 1 picture per second which means that you can fly lower (to get almost the same resolution as you will get with A7R) but faster in order to get the same frontal overlap. With this camera carrying a prime lens you can do very precise point clouds with proper image overlapping.