Recent content by Ralph thompson

UPS seems to have a problem with weekends in Canada, they frequently miss a Friday delivery then you're lucky if its delivered Monday, Tuesday more likely. With FedEx, & DHL I've had deliveries on Saturday & Sunday evening.

I would rather just take a pano shot and merge the photographs in LR in post. More convenient and flexible, available at any time (don’t have to land the drone to fit the lens) and still have the high resolution basic wide lens when you need it. Saves bucks too.

Its nice to see competition in the field. PTGui was my the go to S/W for many years and it is still brilliant. Its very robust an can create an interactive 360 deg website, absolutely brilliant. But in the last couple of years its been hard to beat Lightroom. It quickly merges HDR (equal groups...

Agree with Cafguy, a shinny surface probably confuses the downward sensor. Sorry I’m old fashioned, I always use a folding landing pad, 1. To provide a clear source for the downward sensor to pickup on and 2. To prevent any dirt from being blown up from the ground and being sucked into the very...

And I recall in Britain in 2005 when it was uncovered that Rupert Murdoch and The Sun journalists had hacked the ‘phones of the Royal Family. You don’t think the Gov had the same and better capabilities for spying on whoever they wanted, in Britain and in the USA. Now it just more open and...

Lightroom and Photoshop have de-Moiré algorithms, you can even just brush on the algorithm using the mask tool and set the strength, they work very well, this is a common problem with lower res sensors. EDIT - I tried this on yr image and it didn’t work. Are you shooting raw (DNG) or jpgs? I see...

Well not a criticism but it did look a bit like DJI’s promo video for the M4 Pro, but that’s good, it was well done. I’ve been caught in the woods several times after sunset, not sure I learn from my mistakes.

Very nice M. Nice use of intelligent flight modes. Fantastic scenery. I can see you were smart enough to head down the mountain in daylight, unlike myself who did a similar hike (not quite as ambitious) but stayed at the top throughout the afternoon, heading down at sunset, only to find myself...

I haven't read all the responses but you're doing FreePano with 6x zoom? Why? Surely you’d just use the wide lens (which also has the bigger sensor) and take one photograph (or fewer photographs). I can’t think of a reason to do a panorama with a telephoto lens unless your planning to make a...

Just a thought, is it possible the M4 pro jpeg capture is taking advantage of the quad bayer sensor and actually taking a single HDR photograph?

There are many more knowledgable folks who can help here but at a glance you drove to a dense forest area and started the drone where it could not establish a new home point. A common problem in a dense forest where the drone can’t see sufficient number of satellites. You might find the drone at...

Very nice, sharp and clear.

Birds are pretty smart, I tried to scare pigeons away from my garden with a plastic owl, last time I looked, a pigeon was sat on the plastic owls head. I’ve flown drones since 2012 and often attracted birds, raptors appear from nowhere and circle overhead but I’ve never actually been hit by a...

Are you using an encrypted browser like DuckDuckGo? I get the same problem with DuckDuck, I think its just preventing downloads to your computer without your permission.

auto iso will give you nightmares in post, stick to manual everything. d log m adds compression to highlights and expands shadows so has the potential to produce a better finished job, but from personal experience, working with log in post is not easy. It takes quite a lot of skill, experience...