Recent content by wco81

Can you use a VPN or some other methods to mask IP? You’d typically would get the Ip from the cell network your phone is connected to, not your own home network.

Yeah that's one thing I noticed about state and local agencies or city governments. Not just in the US but all over the world. They have film and TV commissions for issuing licenses to professional film and TV productions. They have a specific fees table, which includes their own personnel...

But technically in NZ, you have to get permit in a lot of DOC lands. Actually I think it's a fee to apply for the permit. You may pay over 200 NZD and they may still deny your request, you don't get that money back. In addition, some councils want money to fly on some of their lands as well.

I appreciate that but honestly, are little drones scaring those species more than the cars that whiz up and down that highway? Or the crowds in the summer?

Interesting. But this one leaves no doubt and there are a couple of others taken from a similar angle west of the bridge, over the water.

Well that one, the camera seems to be suspended over the terrain which is a steep incline going down to the water from the road. Unless there's some elevated observation deck there, it would have to have been taken from the air.

Despite having lived in CA most of my life, I never visited Bixby Bridge near Big Sur in the California Central Coast. I researched it, the state prohibits drone flights along long stretches of the coast including this area because of marine birds. So flabbergasted to see this photo in this...

Did the HK seller offer a FMC as well? Wait HK doesn't have taxes so which taxes did he charge you, CA taxes? Why would an HK seller collect CA taxes?

Can’t you tap and focus on the middle of the pano you’re visualizing and then initiate the pano and the focus shouldn’t change? There should be enough depth of field since typically the terrain is hundreds, if not thousands of feet away?

Nice! You use a grid for the 30% overlap? You can really see the noise if you zoom in but obviously wasn't a real long exposure so the ISO must have been high. The main thing I like about the auto pano modes is that it puts all the individual DNGs into each folder so when I do batch...

Beautiful. Where were you able to launch and land from? I was there a couple of years ago and you either took a train and hiked a lot or drove and there were a few places on the road where you could turn out and park the car for a bit. But it was next to a road so maybe not the best place to...

Wow which cities are those? What was the shutter speed and ISO? Was it using the built-in pano modes or manually shooting each shot, long exposures for each shot?

Wow that's absurd. A strobe which ways just a couple of grams makes it safer to fly, not less safe.

I wonder if the number of newborn girls being named Karen has fallen off a cliff in the last 10 years or so.

It would still take manpower to monitor RID and track down the pilots, unless they can tell from RID and location that a drone was operating illegally and that is enough to at least send a citation or something? If it's the normal police who does enforcement, are they going to drop their other...