No, the highly anticipated GoPro Karma drone hasn’t disappeared in thin air. It made news for a while as drone photography was picking up but not much has been heard about it after the teaser video released by GoPro. Now drone photography enthusiasts can cheer again as GoPro might be announcing it later this month and has accidentally revealed what the drone looks like. A twitter user spotted the same and shared.

Spotted on Italian https://t.co/w8DPGFJcUM page (https://t.co/KMqdmnZuUx): #GoProHERO5, #GoProKarma and SteadyCAM!! pic.twitter.com/8T1oRtxAHa

— Konrad Iturbe (@konrad_it) September 3, 2016

GoPro on its Italy website displayed the drone under ‘products’ on the homepage along with few other products. GoPro has been under pressure from the stakeholders as the growth has been slowed down in the market for action cameras. This has partially been contributed by the lack of any major technological shift in action cameras and also because of the entry of many low cost alternatives in the market. There have been rumours about a new action camera in the Hero series which is also seen here and looks similar to the current line of devices.

DJI is the prominent player in the market for drones used by enthusiasts and while some players have tried to enter with relatively low cost solutions, GoPro is being looked at as a serious threat. From the leaked thumbnail image, it looks like a GoPro slung under the drone mounted on a rotating gimbal. It is likely that the drone, along with other new products, will be announced on the coming 19^th.

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It is impossible not to mention DJI if we are talking about drones but as drone gain popularity for aerial photography, new players are entering the space. GoPro, the leader in action cameras is soon coming up with its own quadcopter to increase the head. Now DJI plans to stay competitive by joining hands with Hasselblad to share their technical expertise in cameras and to do so, they have acquired a minority stake in Hassleblad.

Only a while back, people were be more than happy with smartphone like quality from their drone videos but now most of them use cameras ranging from GoPro to full frame DSLRs. At this point, many of the DJI drones feature very impressive cameras and every new model comes with better imaging capabilities than the previous one. The camera on Inspire drone is so good that it is being sold as a standalone camera. But still the hexacopters and octacopters on top of the spectrum come without any cameras. This is because DJI knows that serious photographers need something even better. They usually rely on high end photography equipment for the same.

Frank Wang, CEO of DJI, says, “With this partnership, we combine our strengths to further push the borders of what’s possible in imaging technology”.

Hasselblad is one brand professionals look at and they have made cameras for Swedish Airforce and NASA’s Apollo missions in the past. They recently announced a new aerial camera that can use very high megapixel sensors.

It isn’t very sure at this point if we will see a joint project by the two companies soon but this space is surely going to get competitive going forward.

(Read: GoPro might already have a winner with their new drone)

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By now almost every adventure junkie knows that GoPro has been working on a quadcopter for quite sometime. The news first came out last year and the reports suggested that we will see the drone by now. Well the actual product isn’t out yet but GoPro has finally dropped a hint (quite a strong one) of what to expect from the upcoming GoPro Drone. Among all the crazy action videos they have put on their YouTube channel, you can also view a footage captured using the prototype GoPro Drone.

The video shows some beautiful landscapes as the drone flies through vast fields and tall trees. Like we mentioned, the footage has been captured using the GoPro Drone and stabilization system. The transitions look very smooth and GoPro proudly claims at the beginning of video that it hasn’t been stabilized during post processing. If that is the case, we might have a very strong competitor to the products already on offer in the market, not that we had any doubts about that. You can check out the video below.

The upcoming GoPro Drone is expected to be available for purchase in first half of 2016. While we are at the topic of drones, it wouldn’t be right to not mention DJI. At this point, most of the enthusiasts and professional moviemakers rely on DJI Phantom 3 which comes with its own camera. The previous versions used to come with the option of mounting the camera of your choice and as expected, GoPro was the choice of most people. With GoPro planning to compete against them, it was pretty obvious that DJI will put an impressive camera on the latest version of Phantom.

The video didn’t show the actual hardware and there aren’t any images available yet. Whatever it looks like, after this video, we are even more excited to see what GoPro brings to the table (or rather the skies). If you want to treat yourself to some awesome drone videos, you can check our list of 10 stunning travel drone videos.

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