Recent content by okephoto

I'm using 180 and Free pano. My preference is free pano so I can get more foreground. Not really interested in 360.

The Superstition Mountains to the east of Phoenix, Arizona are stunningly beautiful in the spring. This is a 21 image stitch done in lightroom of 12MP files.

I have used a combination of cards over the past year, primarily Samsung and Lexar. A word of caution... when you buy a new card make sure the drone records to it before flying. I had a new Lexar card that required formatting as mentioned above before the drone would record to it. Has only...

I've been tending to use the 12MP for both wide and telephoto panos. The stitched panos are plenty wide for huge prints. Something I use occasionally is Topaz AI to upsize images if needed. I'm really not convinced the 50MP images are much better, especially in low light areas.

Yeah, done lots of lawn mowing as well as I keep on forgetting my landing pad! I'm thinking they are holding up better than my Air2S although I haven't been as stupid with the new drone.

I haven't had that problem in the almost 6 months I've been flying the Air3S. I do carry it in a hard case however,

Amazing colours. Out here on the west coast it's very colourfull but nothing like that. Great job.

Definitely make sure you have the latest firmware installed. When I first got mine it was a little buggy but since a firmware update has been working fantastic for about 40 flights now.

Thanks all. I've been very impressed so far with the Air 3S. The dynamic range of the images is amazing. While there are some complaints of noise at the 48mp setting I have found that a little post processing works wonders.

A fantastic evening for flying last night in a magical area. 16 image free pano.

These are all shot in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. British Columbia, Canada for the ones from far away.

I played around with the free panorama mode today. I was interested in using the 70mm for panos and also quickly tried a vertical pano. There's a huge amount of flexibility available and I expect this will be my primary method of shooting panoramas in the future. All the files get saved as DNG...

I'm still a little undecided about whether the 12mp images are better or not. It appears as though the sensor at 48mp or 50mp has noise issues with some types of subjects and colours. The ocean in my marina photos is a good example. At the same time, if I apply the default denoise filter in...

I have also shot some panoramas with the 3S. The 180 degree panos are stitched from 21 images. From what I've seen the JPEG stitched images produced in the drone are somewhat soft and lose lots of detail as well as content on the edges. These attached photos are stitched in Lightroom from the...

I'll likely compare images from the 2 later today although for me the 3S is what I've wanted, primarily for the 70mm lens. This is a game changer. What I am missing is having 5.4K video as that's all I shot with the 2S. If I can locate a cheap 2S I might purchase it for the video alone.