Found Footage: iPhone 4 takes to the skies

I found out from the YouTube comments that the song is "Traditional Drugs" by Hybrid Leisureland.

(posted to pikk) Cool or Lame? They tethered an iPhone to a bunch of balloons and recorded it [POLL] - http://www.pikk.com/71695

Yep, this was pretty lame. Just taping it to a board and going up on a string... not gonna impress many people after seeing many others make sub-orbital camera shots. A few examples:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arena5/sets/72157606119049987/

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/818988-amateur-photographers-amazing-space-shots-using-a-balloon

http://www.sbszoo.com/bear/sable/sable3.htm

There are lots more, but the limit on URLs is 3, and you get the idea. Just do a Google search. So a few guys with images less impressive than any tourist in a tall building is a yawner, looks like kids putting baseball cards in their bicycle wheel spokes. Not even as good as amateurs, these days. Sorry, but the bar is raised way too high for these guys.

This is crazy but intriguing. as a model Helicopter flier this gives me the notion to mount my iPhone to the bottom of my Heli to get some cool ariels of Hawaii. One problem I still suck at flying my Heli. maybe I'll get on of the better fliers to allow me to strap my camera on his professional competition Heli.

awesome video

Get a an Apple Mobile Me account, attach iPhone, start the recording and let the balloons fly off. Use "locate my iPhone" feature on Mobile Me to retrieve your phone.

£499 for a 16GB iPhone has to be cheaper than a digital video camera and a GPS tracking system to retrieve the balloon. GPS trackers can cost a couple of hundred pounds, and so does a semi decent small camera like a Flip.

what TF! did I just watch??? Might as well climb a building and film the ground from there, all jittery and #$@^! A 13 year old filmed the freaking stratosphere showing the freaking curvature of the EARTH! But you had to tether the phone to a spool so you wont lose it huh? .....F&^ing pu#&ies.......

That is pretty darn cool. But next time if they may want to actually SHOW some footage from the iPhone. They showed like 15 seconds of the iPhone footage and the rest was of the dudes looking up at it. Weird.