Carl I'm thinking about getting a drone , I love that picture you got there so could you give me some info on your setup or point me to a post if you have it online already
I got it from Quadcopters co uk, its a DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus V3, I purchased the hard case for it as well so all in, with spare Lipo battery (that goes into the drone itself) came to £1150, comes with a 4gb mini-sd card, but I purchased 2 32GB ones from mymemory so I didnt have to worry about running out of memory taking images.
Photos are RAW DNG so you can pop them into camera raw and make a lot of adjustments. I use my Galaxy S4 phone in the built-in phone holder (which is really cool) and run the free software to see what the camera sees. It also has a compass built into it so you can tell which direction your drone is face from you. Make sure you do a few practice runs in a wide open field, no cables/pylons and no people so you can concentrate. Try not to do it on a windy day either. Also, since its self-stabilising you dont have to worry about doing smooth flying as such, I use mine just for photos not video, so I literally move it into position, rotate, look through the camera, adjust my visual height on the camera and take a pic. You can control ISO with it, which is handy and there is a camera lens correction filter that goes into photoshop (without installation) so you select it and things dont seem so fish-eye then, though depending on how near you are to an object, you may need to do some additional lens correction if you dont want bendy-building and a curved horizon. All in all, its very simple, the "return-to-home" functionality works a treat, it will fly back to where it took off automatically via some defaults i.e. battery level runs to 50% or if you lose remote capability which is very handy, save you losing your drone.
There is 25 minutes fly time per charged Lipo battery, though at 50% return to home, you're more like 12 or 13 minutes, that for me, is plenty of time to shoot it up in the air, get it into position, take a photograph, maybe adjust composition, height etc.. and grab a few more snaps.
Definitely get the case, its £150 but its better than putting it in the boot or somewhere where the kids will get hold of it and break it. Its foam covered inside, nice and strong. The copter comes with spare propellor blades too, but they're only about £12 a pair to replace (takes 4) . For the price its great, if you want to slap your DSLR on there, then you're talking more money for something more powerful, but for what it is, cant fault it. You can always go for the non-Vision plus, which means you dont get a camera, but then you're forking out for a gimbal and Go Pro Hero 4 (go for the black edition, its better). Works out around the same price, but GP doesnt do raw