Flying over the flaming barricades of the Maidan protests in Kiev, the camps of Auschwitz or hurtling down a ski slope — drones have become a vital tool for cameramen, but they are increasingly running into legal and practical obstacles.
Many news networks such as the BBC, Russia Today and France’s TF1 have bought their own drones in recent years and trained their cameramen to become remote-control pilots.
“We’ve used them all over the world, from Togo, for a report about the Aral Sea, to the Brazilian rain forests,” said Thomas Hannen, a producer at the BBC World Service.
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Source: The Jakarta Post
