Ask HN: Which camera drone would you recommend based on own experience?

Our family bought a DJI Spark over Christmas. Been very happy with it. For social media sharing even for doing footage for your film making friend, shooting in 1080p is more than enough. We got the plus pack that had a case and extra battery. Well worth it.

We had a few months of intense use and then it’s on the shelf mostly now. Take amazing footage, so fun to fly around. Battery good too. Seriously it’s got 2km range you’ll probably not want to fly more than 700m cause it if ever came down you’d loose it further than that. And it already flys to the legal limit in Australia (100m up I think it is).

If you had a few more bucks the DJI mavik air looks amazing but really for your first drone the DJI Spark will do everything you want and more and if you really become a big fan you can always trade up.

Oh and the build quality and design are solid too, these things feel like the MacBook of drones IMHO.

My 2 cents.