Parrot Bebop drone review: bird's eye view without a sky-high price

Third-generation device generates good quality video for a reasonable length of time, but lacks precision control without the custom controller

The Parrot Bebop is a camera drone with a real focus on recording video and some seriously impressive image stabilisation. It is Parrot's third generation full-sized flying quatrocopter and is aiming to fly into a sweet spot in the market.

The device is a half-way house between a drone designed for carrying a large camera, such as those often used in TV shows like Top Gear and the toy drones intended to entertain. A "prosumer drone", it lands at the fun end of the scale, very much for those looking to make home movies rather than television documentaries, but that's no bad thing.

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Pros: super smooth video, easy to set up, robust enough to survive a crash, fun to fly, two batteries in the box, GPS

Cons: graining in low-light conditions, difficult to control precisely, legislation on drone use restrictive, expensive for a toy