Media
This is the line that quietly decides whether one skydive is cheaper than another. On the listing compared here the stills and the video are in the price. At most drop zones in the world they are an add-on sold at the counter afterwards, at a moment when nobody is in any state to say no.
Quick answer
Photographs and video are included in the Skydive Dubai price on this listing. They are shot by your instructor on a wrist- or helmet-mounted camera, they cover the exit, the freefall and the landing, and they are handed over on a card or a link within minutes of landing. Elsewhere this is typically a hundred-dollar extra, which is why headline prices are not comparable until you check it.
Why you cannot bring your own camera
Loose objects and body position. The instructor’s camera is the only camera.
Every drop zone in the world refuses cameras to first-time tandem passengers, and the reason is consistent: anything hand-held or strapped on becomes a loose object at two hundred kilometres an hour, both for you and for anyone under you.
There is a second reason, and it is more interesting. Holding a camera changes your body position, and body position is the one thing a tandem passenger is actually responsible for. People who are filming stop putting their head back.
The practical upshot is that the instructor’s camera is the only camera, which makes the included-or-extra question the whole of the media decision.
How to get better Skydive Dubai photos
You are not holding the camera, but almost everything in the frame is still up to you.
Lowest sun, least haze over the island and the calmest air. It costs nothing and it changes every frame.
The Desert Campus is a beautiful jump and the photographs are of dunes. If the island is what you want in the picture, the listing has to say Palm.
Against a dark blue sky at altitude, black clothing disappears. Colour reads.
Wind pressure pulls the corners of the mouth; the classic flapping-cheeks photo is what happens when you grin into it. Small closed smile, eyes up at the camera.
Your instructor will tell you where it is. Everybody looks down on instinct, and the resulting frames are all of a helmet.
On the tap, arms out wide. It is the frame that ends up printed, and it only exists for a few seconds.
Why Skydive Dubai includes the media
Media in the price changes every price comparison by about a hundred dollars.
Most drop zones treat photographs as a separate business. The jump gets you to the aircraft; the video gets sold at the counter afterwards, usually for around a hundred dollars, to somebody who has just had the best minute of their year and is in no mood to decline.
The Skydive Dubai listing compared here folds it into the price instead. That is a commercial choice rather than a favour, and it has one practical consequence: any comparison between this Skydive Dubai price and a cheaper headline elsewhere has to add the media back in before it means anything.
Compare any two skydive prices by asking one question: are the photographs in it? A hundred dollars of media turns a cheaper headline into a more expensive jump.
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What it costs→Common questions
On the listing compared here, yes — both stills and video, shot by your instructor. At most drop zones they are an extra of around a hundred dollars.
No. No drop zone permits a first-time tandem passenger to carry a camera, because loose objects at two hundred kilometres an hour are a hazard and because holding one wrecks your body position.
Not in freefall. It stays on the ground with your other belongings.
Within minutes of landing, on a card or as a download link.
Eyes at the camera rather than the ground, mouth closed rather than grinning into the wind, and something that is not black.
The Palm, if the island is what you want in frame. The desert photographs beautifully but it is dunes rather than the shape everybody recognises.
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$749 for the jump, and what the rest of this page costs.
Palm or desertTwo drop zones, two completely different views underneath you.
TandemWhat actually happens, minute by minute, from briefing to landing.
RulesThe numbers that decide whether you can book at all.
BookingHow far ahead, what sells out, and what the price includes.
HeightThirteen thousand feet, and what sixty seconds of freefall means.
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