Recent content by Ben B

If only life was as simple

I did give myself a decent cut on the finger hand catching once. That was on the 1st gen Mini, which has really sharp props!

In case anyone needs a lesson in crashing. The trick to successfully pulling off a crash like this is to line it up by eye from the ground rather than looking through the drone camera view. I was amazed how resilient this little drone is. No major damage, it recovered to a hover, and just...

Thanks for the feedback, will definitely make future videos a bit leaner.

Definitely could improve the smoothness of my flying. Practice!

Mine definitely does, when I tried it with an old card.

You do need to make it quite long if you want to complete the whole circle. As you can see on mine, it was 20s and it only did about 1/3rd of a circuit. Guess I could have made it a 3s interval instead.

The hyperlapse mode on the mini 3 does a circle round the specified point of interest. I can't actually remember the interval. 2s I think.

Fantastic, thanks.

Can you create a waypoint mission, and then bring the drone back to swap batteries before starting it? And it remembers the setup? If so, that's great, as I thought it would forget it if powered off.

Related, why on earth would anyone buy a LiPo fireproof bag for the Mini 3 Pro, when the Mini 3 Pro does not use LiPo batteries? Baffling, but I guess some people will buy anything. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B3HWRFZZ

I've just left in auto for now. Will play around with manual some time soon.

Yes, that's not right. Check the camera. Compare it with my pic, quality seems fine to me.

Adobe Premiere Elements. First I imported all the still images, which it converted to one frame of video per image (you have to change this in the options, as the default is 4 frames per image which doesn't really work for time-lapse) and rendered as a video. Then I imported that video into a...