A heli carrying a DSLR is big, expensive, hard to fly, dangerous and maintenance intensive. It's good for lifting a DSLR but I would go with a multicopter, the more blades the better. A hexacopter or even an octocopter are very stable, easier to fly, possibly cheaper to build and have a fail-safe, if a motor fails you can land it safely because the other motors take over. You can find a nice video about the subject here:
It demo's a Heli carying a DSLR and afterwards (after the first 7 minutes of video) they talk about this compared to multi-rotors. For the best video results you should probably pick the stable octocopter, you can fly FPV as well with a multicopter, great for live previewing your video.
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A heli carrying a DSLR is big, expensive, hard to fly, dangerous and maintenance intensive. It's good for lifting a DSLR but I would go with a multicopter, the more blades the better. A hexacopter or even an octocopter are very stable, easier to fly, possibly cheaper to build and have a fail-safe, if a motor fails you can land it safely because the other motors take over. You can find a nice video about the subject here:
http://flitetest.com/articles/T_Rex_800E_DSLR_Camera_Gimbal
It demo's a Heli carying a DSLR and afterwards (after the first 7 minutes of video) they talk about this compared to multi-rotors. For the best video results you should probably pick the stable octocopter, you can fly FPV as well with a multicopter, great for live previewing your video.
Thanks! That's pretty informative! :)