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> The plan [...] to take 60 black-and-white images and five colour images

Why black and white? Why not all colour? What constraint are they working around? Storage? Camera speed?

Black and white pictures are generally much more precise. There's a lot of image manipulation involved in consumer grade color images (which the copter has).

More info:

https://youtu.be/Wah1DbFVFiY

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