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    M2P batteries

    I don't have the Mavic 2 but it should be found in Settings->Battery section in the DJI Go app. Yes, 40-60% is the ideal charge percentage between a semi-ready to go battery and minimum loss of capacity over time. At 40% you can still do a quick 5 minutes flight for scouting even on the spur of...
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    M2P batteries

    Lithium-based batteries can be stored at 100% charge for a short period but you will observe reduced capacity due to the build-up of internal resistance over time. Depending on the environment temperature you might lose as much as 20% capacity per year at 25C. We can probably reason that...
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    I'm buying the Pro because I can use it to zoom too

    You are mistaking perspective with field of view (please do some research on this). Yes, cropping this image to 1/4 of its original dimension will provide exactly the same field of view as zooming in by 2x.
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    FW .1000 for Goggles and HDMI input (POLL)

    I found that with Goggles firmware 1000 and Mavic firmware 700 the Head Tracking functions no longer works**. Could anyone please check/confirm?. **I have not had time to test flight it to see if it only doesn't work whilst stationary.
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    FW .1000 for Goggles and HDMI input (POLL)

    I can confirm that this issue has been fixed. The HDMI video is displayed to all edges of the screen with no scaling.
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    Good job dji, NFZ

    I believe you were referring to this thread: How to: avoid GEO System-induced forced landing and crashes :) . I think the set of coincidences can be reduced to: * A dynamic NFZ is added during flight (such as from the result of a TFR), or * The aircraft has taken off before the GEO System has...
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    Tilted horizon at sideways flight - fixed or not

    The tilting is not very smooth to me, but the amount of tilt otherwise looks normal. Due to the inherent noise in the gyroscope & accelerometer, some amount of integration time is required which makes the gimbal's correction lags behind the actual camera's tilt. A shorter integration time makes...
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    Tilted horizon at sideways flight - fixed or not

    It's not a physical limitation of the gimbal. The gimbal uses a pair of gyroscope & accelerometer to know its orientation in space. I expect that all current consumer-grade gyroscopes will behave the same. What you've been seeing is called 'bias' as the gyroscope's output is inherently noisy...
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    What a difference -1 makes....

    I do agree that the 8-bit colour depth doesn't make it very malleable in post, not to mention that not everyone is keen on doing so. That said, my post does give a few (subjective) reasons why I went with 0 colour and 0 contrast which is to not make the 8-bit depth worse than it already is. Some...
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    What a difference -1 makes....

    I've done a fair amount of research on the best video settings for the Mavic and concluded that 2.7K@30fps D-Log +1, 0, 0 is best in terms of sharpness. You can find proof of it in my post: Mavic Pro: why DJI doesn't fix this huge flickering/compression problem? . There is some flickering issue...
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    Is it less stressful for batteries to charge them slower?

    You can charge a Lithium-based battery safely with no long-term effects as long as the charge rate is ~1C or lower. Charging a battery at 1C from empty would take 1 hour. I don't know how long the advanced charging hub takes to charge from empty but if it's providing as much power as it could...
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    Mavic Pro: why DJI doesn't fix this huge flickering/compression problem?

    I uploaded the test framegrabs with the intention that you could perhaps try to sharpen it to get back the details similar to the +1 sharpness photo. Would you mind giving it a try?. From my eyes, I could see that the extra details in the +1 sharpness photo are really details and not just edge...
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    How to: avoid GEO System-induced forced landing and crashes

    The app relies on a working Internet connection to send dynamic NFZs to the aircraft, otherwise it uses the NFZ database stored within the app and the aircraft which shouldn't catch you by surprise. Also, I wouldn't expect a remote place to have any NFZ :) so this caution is more related to...
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    Mavic Pro: why DJI doesn't fix this huge flickering/compression problem?

    I'm an experienced photographer but have just recently dipped my toes into aerial videography so I won't dispute your knowledge but am stating my opinions. As many others, I've chosen 2.7K@30fps D-Log +1, 0, 0 as a ideal setting for the Mavic. The colour and saturation are set to 0 because I...
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    How to: avoid GEO System-induced forced landing and crashes

    The aircraft controls the autolanding, the app just reports on this fact with an orchestrated timer. I've done some tests here to show that this doesn't help: Dji sink my Mavic pro . Starting with the latest DJI Go app (4.1.2), we no longer have the option to turn GEO System off so I think the...