4DRC F8 GPS Drone with 4K UHD Camera 5G FPV Live Video for Adults and Beginners, Foldable RC Quadcopter with Brushless Motor, Return Home, Follow Me, Long Flight Time, Includes Carrying Case

This is our first drone - well, my son bought it, but I loved the idea too.Unpacking - nicely boxed in it's carry case which has a nice feel to it. Everthing fits well and hasa place.Drone - kinda smaller than I expected, but actually a good size once unfolded and flying. Feels really light until you add a battery, then it has a nice weight to it. Fairly plasticky but feels solid enough.Batteries - Comes with 2 (with a bonus free battery for writing a review). Takes a while to charge ~3hrs / battery (and that was plugged into a Samsung phone fast charger @ 1 or 2 Amps (maybe the supplied cable doesn't trigger the 2 amp mode?) Seems to last well with a good 15+min flight time - suppose that will depend on weather/wind conditions.Remote - feels quite cheap and lightweight. Probably the most disappointing thing in the package. Fake antennae. Also needs batteries (unlike others which have a rechargeable battery built-in). 4xAAASpares - comes with 2 propellers and a screwdriver. Spare screws would have been nice, but hey-ho.Flying - it is fun. My son was hyped to the moon after taking it for it's first flight. Being new, we kept it within a resonable range of where we were standing. It goes HIGH. It's quite scary seeing is go 25-30m up in the sky and I know this is only a fraction of it's range. I'm sure it could go out of sight quite easily. Auto-Return is scary - just seems to go up in the air - But manual states it will do it "at a safe altitude" - we just haven't let it do that for fear of it disappearing into the heavens, but could be ok, not sure yet.Camera - seems to be about 2MP, images look fairly good though. No photographer quality, but what do you expect for the price?

Camera quality is awful , took us a while to get to grips with it so couldn’t return once we was used to it but now we finally have and the camera is shocking and amazon won’t let me contact the seller to see if there are any faults as the return window has closed. It says 5 megapixels on the droneHowever it’s supposed to be 4k?Not only that, taking the product into our garden, the drone couldn't pick up GPS signal. I had to use this on indoor mode, within 2 minutes of it being in the air outside one of the legs made a pop, and then caught fire.DO NOT BUY! DANGEROUS!

You really can't go wrong with this drone for the price point. good control options, some great features that are good fun to use such as the follow me modes and the panoramic circling mode (GPS based I think).Good easy intro to start off, be sure to make the 1st GPS lock before you go flying outside, and do it each time otherwise your return home mode might be somewhat surprising as it flies off to the last time you locked (I'm guessing that is what happened?). Fortunately not far away from the 2nd flight! Flight time is good, looking forward to the arrival of the free 3rd battery (please!?).I had a small problem with the first unit, the camera was slightly out of alignment from horizontal, seller exchanged this immediately with no quibble so clearly not a typical occurrence.I found an old Samsung note 4 phone I had around the house which was one of the early phones with 5GHz WiFi so that is now the device I use for this drone - works great!I haven't really pushed the distance side of things yet, but I've been very happy with everything so far. It seems that everything in the published spec is fairly true in reality so I can't see any reason to complain.this is my first drone so I have nothing to compare it to, but to be honest I can't see why i would want another s it appears to do everything I need, and probably more.Tempted to go out on a long bike ride to see how the follow me works, but i'd probably crash for looking at my phone rather than the road!

I bought the 4DRC F8 as a birthday present for my wife, who enjoys photography. I did some research on specs and prices before settling on this model. The first thing to be aware of, here in the UK at least, is that a drone of 250 grams or more apparently requires some kind of registration or licence or something before you can use it. This model is 220 grams, so none of that is required.I have read many of the other reviews, most of which are favourable, but there are a few negative ones. It seems some people have managed to lose the drone after it flew off of its own accord. I would suggest this will be down to not following the set up procedure properly.Others have criticised the image quality achievable. That may be correct but it needs to be borne in mind that the recorded image quality will at best only be as good as the recording equipment can manage, so if your phone doesn't record at 4K you're not going to get a 4K image.I saw at least one comment complaining that after activating the return to home command, the drone suddenly shot upwards. Yes it does. It does this so that it can lock on to the correct position. Having done so it will then fly to a position directly overhead, and then descend slowly to land. So just give it time. It will perform this manoeuvre automatically if the battery charge level drops too low, so if it feels like you have lost control then this is probably why. Just let it land, and swap the battery. Or go home if you have used all your charged batteries.Although my view of this product overall is favourable, I do have a couple of minor issues. Firstly, the calibration procedure doesn't always go as easily as the instructions would imply. Persevere and you will get there in the end. The other thing is the fragility of the rotor blades. We were having fun flying around when I managed to crash, and almost all the blades shattered. It appears that replacements are only available from China, so your drone will be out of action for a few weeks while you await delivery.This is a great fun gadget. Not entry level, nor is it top of the range. You can pay considerably less for a basic beginner drone, or considerably more for a pro model. For the price I believe it to be extremely good value in comparison with the competition.