Recent content by AMann

It looks like the rover China recently put on the moon.

Yup, it’s starting…There’s a company recruiting on Indeed that specializes in contracting with cities to provide local pilots to run their 1st responder drone fleets. They have a pretty nice setup with docked drones on top of the tallest building in our town, and have BVLOS permits for them. I...

- keep lipo batteries at about 60% charged for storage.

Are you storing batteries with a full charge? And what is their auto-discharge set at?

Volunteer projects are fun- and rewarding. Some look for lost people and pets, I bet that is highly rewarding! I like to volunteer with the Forest Service to do natural resource surveys - but that’s shut down for a while 😔. I occasionally help out my wife’s archaeological company doing site...

Matt, there is a member here that advertised having a server set up for large mapping jobs and was offering to help people- did you see that post? https://mavicpilots.com/threads/free-webodm-processing.151417/

Yeah, those resin filters were fun, weren’t they? I also used to love shooting with a Wratten 2 Red filter for B&W, especially at desert rock art sites. It made the lines of the petroglyphs look like chalk against black rocks. There’s so much you can do with filters, I modified one of my Mavic...

Sorry, totally disagree My favorite ND filters to use, both on my F5 (when I used to shoot with film), and now on my DSLR and drone is a graduated ND filter. You can shoot really nice sunsets with them as the graduation (darker on top than in the bottom) gives you the ability to save details in...

Good point about using a drone as a tripod- I want to explore that idea with mine. I also really like images by people who’ve used dark ND filters to remove people from busy places- or to make them look like wisps of fog. I’ve seen some really eerie and dramatic images using welders glass as a...

Running a power line along an antenna seems like inductance will be an issue. Also, are tethered drones not restricted as untethered drones are in controlled airspace? Interested in seeing a reference. Thanks!

White snow or sand in an aerial can blow out as white, even with fast shutter speeds and low ISO’s. They also let you use a narrower depth of field by using a larger aperture opening if you want to blur the background in a still.

neutral density filters are useful if you are shooting bright things and can’t expose them correctly - like sunsets or white snow or light sand… software cannot fix overexposed parts of an image, there is simply no data for them to pull out.- just white. That’s when neutral density filters are...

It’s not DJI that will cut off access to updates and activations in the U.S., it will be our government that can do it. For example, our government threatened to ban internet access to TicToc in the U.S. until the company relented to our demands. So the great wall of U.S. does exist!

Robert- I just PM’d you. -Anthony

Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World's Food by George Steinmetz and Joel K. Bourne Jr. is currently on sale at Amazon for $5.55 - it tells the story of where our food comes from and has amazing aerial photos taken by George Steinmetz. He used a paramotor, and drones for many of...