Recent content by JeffS

I received this error twice when trying to shoot a 360 pano over the weekend. I've gotten the error before, and it typically seems to happen when the drone is being bounced around by wind and it cant stitch the images. In any case, I tried twice and got two failures. Winds were running 5-10mph...

I bought a set when they came out but it wasn't until a week ago that I got to fly a long distance mission with them. In my early close-up testing on my front lawn I noticed (other than they are much quieter) some difference in aircraft performance. Braking was different, and the aircraft tended...

About a week. Over water, about a month.

I just received a set of MAS props for my MA yesterday and just tried them out. Definitely quieter, very noticeably so. It's windy here today in the northeast, so most of my test was basically hovering about 15 feet off the ground and doing a number of forward/back, side/side movements in both...

I have had more than one incident of pigeons flying after, buzzing, or circling my MA. Probably to shoo away what they think is another type of bird from a roosting location. I just return home and don't try to mess with them. Not worth a $1k loss.

Lots of great pictures! Fall was so short here in Northern NJ. It lasted about 3 weeks and then it was gone. The unusually wet summer and warm September/October was to blame. I was hoping to get a lot more fall pictures than I did.

I have a Win10 i7 machine with 16gb of ram and a decent graphics card and it refuses to run. Gives me a useless error code. Pffft...

Fall colors in the northeast have been rather lackluster due to the unusually wet summer and above average temperatures into the 2nd week of October. The trees don't know what to do. They are just turning sorta yellow and falling off. So this is the best I could do, color wise. Location...

:D No! I didn't want to get much closer than this. First I didn't want to disturb the two Turkey Vultures who were perched on top who might then fly off and hit or attack me. These are big birds, Eagle sized. I don't think I'd even try that under any conditions. Way too many things could go...

Grave markers with numbers or even just letters was common practice at these institutions in the past. However, in the case of this graveyard, that oversight was rectified a few years ago. Everyone was identified: THOSE WHO SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN by Jeffs4653, on Flickr

Ghosts indeed! Long before I had the drone, I did inside photography. If you'd like to see inside the powerhouse: Letchworth Village Powerhouse Inside the psych hospital: Letchworth Village

Looking down at 200 foot abandoned chimney (note two birds sitting on rim) of abandoned power house. Abandoned Letchworth Village Psychiatric Hospital. Thiells, New York. Mavic Air.

Esopus Meadows Lighthouse 2500ft offshore in the Hudson River, Esopus NY (north of Poughkeepsie ). Mavic Air.

I reported it to DJI. Still nothing. I followed up after a few weeks to ask if anything was happening and was basically told "It's being investigated" Dion't call us, we'll call you. Item filed in round file.

This is still broken in the Android version of GO 4. It stopped reporting battery temperature at 4.1.18 according to Airdata support and is still broken at 4.2.20 I've contacted DJI support about this. The first reply asked me for information that was already spelled out in the initial contact...