BILLIE EILISH: THE WORLD’S A LITTLE BLURRY
WANT TO TAKE SENSATIONAL SNAPS FROM THE AIR? WE ROUND UP THE BEST KIT TO SUIT ANY BUDGET
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Billie Eilish released her first music with her older brother Finneas when she was 13 years old, building her fanbase on a music sharing website before her steady rise to global superstardom. Award-winning filmmaker RJ Cutler is granted unprecedented access to
Eilish in a deeply intimate and revealing documentary, which follows the 17-year-old singersongwriter as she writes, records and releases her Grammy Award-winning debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? including the single Bad Guy.
Cameras follows Eilish at home with her family and on the road, coming of age in the full glare of the media spotlight. ■
ONCE upon a time you’d need a helicopter and a massive camera to capture decent footage of life on earth from the air.
You may not believe this, but people actually used to make their living by photographing people’s houses from light aircraft and then selling them a print of it. Simpler times.
These days you can bag a fairly decent drone with a camera relatively cheaply, and the footage you can get from them can be really spectacular.
Here are three of the best drones you can get today – and there’s one for every budget.
BEST FOR BUDGET
Ryze Tech Tello ■ They say: We set out to build the most fun drone ever, and we came up with Tello: an impressive little drone for kids and adults that’s a blast to fly and helps users learn about drones with coding education.
Get yourself a Tello to find out just how awesome flying can be!
We say: A drone as good as this should not really be available at this price. For less than £100, the Tello is a perfect introduction to the world of drone photography.
It’s small and light and works right out of the box with a smartphone app for control – although it is compatible with other controllers.
It lacks the tracking features of more expensive drones, but does have compatibility with VR headsets for a virtual flight. There’s 13-minutes of flight time, a 100m range, and 720p video capture.
■ Cost: £99 from ryzerobotics.com
BEST MID-RANGE
DJI Mini 2
■ They say: There are many places you visit once in a lifetime. Bring DJI Mini 2 for a unique perspective, and make the most of your travels.
■ We say: DJI is THE name in drones, and this is its latest stab at the mini drone market – it is comfortably the best option if you want the most for your money.
The three-axis gimbal 4K camera can capture exceptional footage, and the drone is very stable, even in quite strong breezy conditions.
You can fly it for up to half-an-hour, and it folds right down into a tiny package that’s easy to take with you wherever you want to film.
■ Cost: £419 from store.dji.com
BEST HIGH-END
PowerVision PowerEgg X Wizard
■ They say: In Drone Mode, the PowerEgg X is a high-performance drone. It is suitable for highly dynamic aerial photography thanks to its 4K/60fps camera and triaxial
mechanical gimbal. The user can control real-time 1080P image transmission within a distance of 3.7Mile(FCC).
It has a maximum wind speed resistance of 29-38 kph so that it can stably fly in coastal or windy conditions. The PowerEgg X has a flight time of 30 minutes.
■ We say: The PowerEgg is for serious users and features sophisticated tracking technology that can help you make sure your subject is always in frame, whatever they do. It will even remember faces it is tracking, so if they unexpectedly move out and back into shot, it’ll pick up where it left off.
It’s pricey, but it can also operate in hand-held mode, so has more functionality than other cheaper devices – and the stunning stabilised footage it can capture in the air and on the ground, makes this a good bet for the most enthusiastic of droners.
■ Cost £1,030 from powervision.me
MARVEL VOICES LEGACY#
In America,
February is Black History Month, and to celebrate Marvel is releasing seven very special issues.
Legacy features tales from new and established creators, with new stories for some of Marvel’s black superheroes, including Miles Morales, Black Panther, Storm, Blade, Falcon, Ironheart, Luke Cage and Spectrum.
Marvel’s Voices: Legacy #1 is out now priced £4.50.
DEPARTMENT OF
TRUTH: VOLUME 1
The past 12 months have seen the internet awash with conspiracies and half truths about coronavirus, Donald Trump and everything in between. But what would happen if reality could be rewritten simply by enough people believing the hype?
That’s the premise of Department Of Truth. Special agent Cole Turner, an FBI agent, is about to discover all of the conspiracy theories and memes are true, from the JFK Assassination to Flat Earth Theory and Reptilian Shapeshifters.
From bestselling writer James Tynion, the man behind Batman, and breakout artist Martin Simmonds, this volume collects together issues 1 to 5. Department Of Truth: Volume 1 is out now priced £8.99.
TOP 10 GAMES
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Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
Animal Crossing: New Horizons FIFA 21
Marvel’s Spider Man: Miles Morales
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Call Of Duty:
Black Ops Cold War
7. Little Nightmares II
8. Minecraft
9. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
10. Ring Fit Adventure
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UKIE GAMES CHART (C) COMPILED BY GfK