Recent content by Felix le Chat

Osmo pocket or pocket 2. Best option with smallest form factor. With any handheld gimbal, you have to learn the Ninja Walk to iron out the z-axis bounce... either that: or buy a z-axis stabilizer.

**corrected accordingly, although the difference between their stated end-goal is negligible.

A product banned which subsequently thrives? I can cite one perfect example absolutely peculiar to America... Imported booze during the prohibition era. And while the continental U.S may well be a big old single marketplace, I might respectfully remind you that the rest of the world is bigger...

A solution from DJI? I think you're in 'don't hold your breath' territory there. After an upgrade to what was then the latest firmware three+ years ago: this exact same kind of 'software bug' crippled the 2.4ghz band on one of my Mavic 2's... it is still unusable to this day, whereas the Zoom's...

Yes, I use one of the Mavic 2 zoom Pano functions pretty much exclusively. It's the one labelled 'super-resolution' and it does exactly what it says on the tin... one standard shot (for reference, I imagine) followed by a 2X optical zoom to capture a 3X3 grid of 9 shots composited into a single...

The only thing relevant I'm seeing here are the words 'Chinese', 'spy' and 'drone'... all of which are a gift-horse for the lobbyists and political Washington sharks during their efforts to turn opinion in favour of their current "crusade".

UK regulation defines 'Line Of Sight' as having the drone in a position where the operator can physically see it at all times. This and the altitude rule aren't bureaucratic turd-skinning to make drone users lives difficult, they are basic common sense. If the drone is clearly in view before...

Trying to work out where you are geographically as this can have a bearing on one cause of 'flickering' seen in video footage. There is an anti-flicker adjustment tab in the camera menu. If you're in the Europe side of the Atlantic, the standard setting is 50hz because this is the number of...

The rule of thumb I use is that after a full charge cycle (including leaving the battery attached to the charger until it switches all the green LED's off after cell balancing) is that a discrepancy greater than .02 between the individual cell voltages shows a flight battery that is getting...

Excellent advice all round from people who know through experience. I'll add something along the same lines. Leave your RTH percentage where it is... 'safe' costs you nothing whereas 'sorry' means you're 800 bucks out of pocket.

Yeah. A grand total of 1638 individual transit flights to put on the exhibits and displays for the Midlands Air Show. It's turned my neck of the woods into one enormous NOTAM backed drone no-fly-zone. That's why I'm exporting myself to your neck of the woods while it's on.

I understand how this occurred, it is similar to when I was caught out shooting stills of stained glass panels from inside a gloomy church on a day that unexpectedly became very sunny. Your video wall creates the same effect: extreme backlighting blowing colours from 27% reflectance upwards and...

One or two things.... a) the busted charge port. The busted charge/video out port on the controller left shoulder is an easy DIY fix that will cost you the Canadian equivalent of between £30 and £40 (sterling). Buy a new button board from eBay and search YouTube for "replace Mavic 2 controller...

Perhaps you fail to recognise arch irony.

Simple little android app named 'PHOTOTIME' is an excellent freeware ephemeris.