Recent content by Meanderthal

What's your price range? I'm totally happy with a Galaxy A70 that I bought from B&H photo for $329. It's a GSM phone that was manufactured for the Latin American market but has worked fine on AT&T here in the States. I have no regrets about the A70 but if I was going to buy today I'd consider...

Right now I have two Minis. My plan is to get an Air 2, keep one Mini and give the other to my daughter when she's ready. Wind is a huge limiting factor for the Mini but it has some party tricks that make me want to hang on to one. The portability factor cannot be understated. I live in Alaska...

I'm still on original props without a problem as well. Not sure how many flights at this point but it's quite a few. Mine has even survived being flown by kids aged 5 through 13 with no problems.

Awesome work. I hope to have the patience and skill to do something similar eventually.

Yes, I am using my Tab A 8.0 2019 model SM-T290 to fly the Mini with the DJI Fly App. I did not have to side load the software for the first installation because it installed automatically when I synced it with my Galaxy A70 phone but I have had to side load all of the updates. I've only run it...

Just chiming in to add that the corrupted files can be salvaged. It's a PITA but it might be worthwhile if the video is valuable. Here's a video that explains the method that I used.

My Mini bought new is known as "Green Gadget". I fly it over land because if I crash it can be replaced with care refresh as long as I have a corpse to ship. My mini bought used is called "Blue Bomber". It's lack of care refresh may well condemn it to a burial at sea. I have all of the...

I have 2 Fly More kits + 1 extra so 7 total. I've never used more than 4 at a time.

Best Buy has dropped the price for the MA1 down to $599 for the basic kit and $699 for the Fly More package. I would expect MA2 to be at least $300 more when it hits the shelves.

I've run the Fly App on my A70 on both Android 9 and 10 without any problems. I love the phone but it's so long that it just barely fits into the controller even without a case. Other than the length it's a great device for flying the Mini. The screen is very nice and it responds quickly. I've...

I've been running the Fly app on an A70 with Android 10 without any problems. I'm not sure what the differences are between those two models.

Since you are located in Greece I'd be careful with this. Myself and others here in North America have had good luck with this model (Samsung 8" Galaxy Tab A SM-T290) but all of them manufactured for sale on our continent come with a Qualcomm processor and it's my understanding that Samsung...

Thanks all. I don't want to deal with the trouble or expense of ND filters if it would make little difference or if the same effect could be accomplished just by locking a lower exposure value. I'm leaning toward grabbing the 4 filter kit from Free Well but at $15 per filter it isn't easy to...

Recently I shot some video of sea ice going out with the tide in Cook inlet. The video looked good except that it had some annoying judder. My understanding is that this can be reduced or eliminated and replaced with more natural looking motion blur by increasing the exposure time. Could this be...

Just a heads up about Tab A options for the Fly app: I just went through the process or researching this and found zero evidence that the 10.1" model works and some evidence that it doesn't. Only the 8" model SM-T290 2019 with Android 9 manufactured for North America with a Qualcomm processor...