Recent content by bartjes

Charge your battery about half its capacity and transport it in a LiPo safe bag in carry-on luggage (Google "LiPo fire" for the 'why'). Know the regulations in the country your travelling to. For instance it's illegal to even possess a drone in Marocco and I guess Dubai has regulations (Google...

The amount of steel around you / strength of Faraday's cage will determine your signal loss. Especially here, the homepoint and a minimum RTH height that's clear of any obstacles is importrant. Check the construction of your car of how much steel is used in windowframes and roof construction (or...

Wow, I hope not too much damage ?

I'd be worried about temperature in this place, I so (desperately) want to go there now but Covid gives me 5 days quarantine that prevents me from booking

The lowest I flew over water was below 1 meter (original Mavic Pro). I started on land to get the drone as low as possible without landing, then started flying. The drone would not be recoverable when it would have crashed in the water, so that was the risk I accepted...

This is the price of stupidity and ignorance in Europe.

Yes, the quick format only deletes the index, the full format will put every bit to 1 so therefore the latter has the best & consistent write performance while filming

SD cards rely on NAND flash memory and they have a FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, meaning it's like a book with an index. Let's continue with this analogy: - Deleting files will only delete them from the index, not from the book. - New chapters (movieclips) can be written as long as...

I've flown over glaciers where mountaineers got missing presumed dead and glacierlakes that are pretty deep so no recovery by me. I did go flying with a friend who crash-landed his MA2 in a tall tree. Luckily we found a guy via google who was able to get it out for reasonable money. I filmed the...

I also have the Mavic Pro since early 2017 and took it on 3 holidays to Iceland. Sadly, that's where most of the flying has happened as the map of no-fly zondes in my country appears to have been coloured by multiple toddlers leaving little inspiring airspace to fly legally.

Watch some youtube video's for drone video and photo tips, practice these in area's nearby so when you get to a really nice location, you have the experience to capture it in a better way. Having said this, my drone has only been used 2 times since summer since there are large no-fly area's in...

I let the drone (original Mavic Pro) take off from the ground near the car, setup active track, put my controller on the dash behind the steering wheel and drive. My car (1972 Citroen DS) has a platform between the steering wheel and the dash where the remote & phone can rest fine as long as I...

I also choose 5 AEB & RAW for my (1st generation) Mavic Pro shots, especially when there are large contrast differences. I create panorama's by hand by setup in portrait and rotate the drone a bit for each shot. Make sure for sufficient overlap otherwise the final result has less vertical...

I always make my panorama's in post, using my (1st gen Mavic pro): 1) Setup the gimbal into portrait mode (have more pixels in height) 2) Calibrate gimbal to be perfectly level, having the horizon mid-frame 3) Setup RAW and 5-picture AEB (depending on light of the scene). Setup exposure, lock...

I used my Mavic Pro (1st generation). ABove three pictures are 2 different sunsets at Landmannalaugar, Iceland The last panorama has been stitched in Lightroom from sereval portrait 5-AEB pictures, first made all these pictures HDR, then stitched them. But I cannot choose with the rivers...