Holy Stone GPS Drone with Camera 4K for Beginners, HS460 Foldable Drones with 26 Mins Long Flight Time, Brushless Motor, Follow Me, Auto Return, 5G FPV Transmission, Under 249g Easy for Adults

Great product for the price
Pleasantly surprised by the quality this product for the price bought as a gift from my teenagers and they really love it takes good videos and photos and great fun to use easy to set up if you’re even a little bit savvy with technology

Does what it says on the tin!
I’m a complete beginner but wanted a done with gps for that bit more safety. Flown it a couple of times successfully (no crashes….yet) Not sure I would trust it or myself in wind. Overall happy with the purchase. Just need to be more confident with flying it. Pairing and setting up was a easy you must read the instructions though and not try to presume unless you are more experienced.

Poor quality
Painfully difficult to connect and calibrate. Return to home function didn’t work and continuously lost connection to handset

Bad advertising, but nice little drone package for learning to fly. No usable footage.
Only had one test flight with it so far, easy to set up and get going with it, camera quality definitely is far from 4k but good enough and not super stable in light winds. Cool little package and probably worth the sale price with £40 off that I got.The big reason I’m pushing this review out right now is everywhere I look it says this drone does not require licensing or anything like that. Yet it is clearly advertised as not a toy, and for ages 14+ as stated on my box I received it in. Therefore it technically falls under the “<250g, with a camera, not a toy" category meaning you require an Operator ID to legally fly it, despite it being sub 250g and having much lighter restrictions, which is very easy to get but be careful and do your own research.Edit > Just flew the drone for the 4th time and throughout all four flights so far I have not been able to get it to record any flights without corrputing the video and disconnecting the Wifi / cutting live feed continuously throughout. Perhaps I have a defective model but it just seems pretty useless right now for recording footage both with SD card and without. All files corrupt minus the ones that I just quickly switched on record and turned record right back off.

SEE MY UPDATE AT THE END OF THIS REVIEW -SCROLL TO THE END OF MY REVIEWThe Holy Stone 720e is the first drone I’ve ever owned or flown. As other reviewers have stated, it’s an easy drone to fly. It’s stable, GPS works well, the return to home function almost always returns it to within a couple of feet of the launch spot. The Learning Mode should be disregarded. Instead, in the menu, set the parameters of distance and height that you want to start out with. Unlike some other users, I found the distance before the return video feed dropped out to be only a few hundred feet. Fortunately, the controller reaches much farther and the Return to Home function will bring the drone back if you lose sight of it. Just be sure to set your Return to Home altitude high enough to clear any obstacles around or on the path.VIDEOVideo is one area where I have some expertise. I’ve worked in broadcast television, produced BluRays, including 4K BlurRays and before retirement I worked for a major audio/video manufacturer.The 720e frequently receives high marks for video. But there are many caveats. If you expect to create professional quality video with this drone you are likely to be disappointed unless you’re prepared to spend lots of time in post production trying to clean up the files. Even using DaVinci Resolve, I’m unable to get a decent, realistic color balance.CAMERA CONTROLSLimited, with no manual adjustment of shutter speed or aperture. Rudimentary Brightness and Contrast controls provided in the Ophelia GO app are almost useless. Using the auto ISO setting results in constant changes in levels, particularly if you are shooting in high contrast situations. There is no real exposure control and White or near white elements in the scene are often overexposed or blown out. The dynamic range of the very small sensor is limited and because the files are highly compressed, there is little you can do to recover in post. Shooting in fixed ISO100 results in washed out images.LENSThe fixed, wide angle lens borders on a fisheye perspective unless aimed perfectly level. Depending on swivel up or down, horizon lines will be distorted.The internal processing skews the image towards the blue/magenta end of the spectrum, which can be corrected in post. Unfortunately, the lens suffers from severe chromatic aberrations with colored fringes around high contrast areas such as dark tree limbs against the sky. The lens on my drone was decentered with acceptably sharpness in the middle and right side of the frame, but decidedly soft on the left side.Shooting towards the sun or a sky with bright clouds results in loss of contrast, typical of inexpensive lenses. I devised a lens hood using sticky foam tape attached on the top edge of the camera. This reduced loss of contrast dramatically, although the magenta cast in the center of the image still remains when shooting towards the sun early morning or late afternoon.ADDITIONAL TIPSIf you want to record 4K, you will need the appropriate Micro SD card inserted in the slot of the 720e. Otherwise, the return video the Ophelia app will record to your phone or pad will be 1080P.Once you’ve mastered flying to a point of reasonable skill and confidence, you’ll be thinking about a drone with a larger sensor and better optics.All said, it’s an acceptable first machine and I’m enjoying the learning experience but at this point it’s an interim drone that will be passed on to a friend or grandson. If only the video and still images were as good as my iPhone or any number of other smart phones.UPDATE: After approximately a dozen flights over a four month period, the micro SD card socket failed. It refuses to seat the card, rejecting the card. Unfortunately, being one month out of warranty, Holy Stone told me the unit was not repairable but offered to sell me a new drone replacement for 15% off retail. Knowing that dealer margins are higher than 15%, I would have expected a replacement at dealer cost.Additionally, video reception from the drone is poor with limited range, likely due to the antenna design and location. It is a straight wire protruding horizontally from the left rear about 1/2″. In as much as it is likely vertically polarized it should be located vertically. I bent the wire down and it improved reception distance dramatically when flying away from the launch point. However on the return the signal is blocked by the battery, resulting in loss of signal.So now I have a drone with very limited video range and because of the failed micro SD card socket, I’m unable to record to the card.I have also experienced a couple of out of control crashes, one resulted in having to replace a broken motor arm.This is not a product I could recommend with any degree of confidence.ADDITIONAL UPDATE:Reviewing the video files recorded on my micro SD card, I found several with the corruption suffix that I noticed before the card mechanism in the drone completely failed. This indicated to me evidence of a pending failure within a week of receipt of the 720e. I documented this and forwarded to Holy Stone. Fiona and Becky in their customer service department reviewed the data and I now have a replacement drone on the way. Thank you.Lesson learned. If you have any indication of failures early on with any purchase, contact the suppliers customer service. Keep all your warranty and purchase information.FOLLOW UP. The replacement 720e arrived and functions as expected. Because of the great customer service I am pleased to recommend the unit and change my review to five stars.

I brought this done to try out. It works really well and easy to setup, calibrate and operate. Some photos and videos are here. One key takeoff and landing will help and make life easier. Super reliable. Rate 10/10.

This is a quality drone, well made and easy to use. I found it ideal for my first experience with owning a drone. The documentation is good and the software works well. I had no trouble getting it airborne, flying it around and using the camera. I found it to be very good quality for the price – I was quite impressed.The camera, at 4K, isn’t as good as I had hoped for, but it is good enough.All in all – I’m very happy with the purchase.