Recent content by rickray

Yes, and when you are following a hoverboarder across Lake Tahoe, it's a little hard to avoid them as you try to go 360 around.

In the winter months, the sun is lower on the horizon and I'm finding more incidents of prop shadow in my videos at certain angles of the craft. After some cursory internet searching on how to address the issue, I am finding there aren't that many definitive answers to my questions. Do ND...

There is no legit way to explain 15 different cards, from different brands all working two weeks ago, without exception, and then suddenly today, right after an upgrade, and NONE will work. The same error message for all. Did DJI upgrade or increase the workload on these cards? Please stop...

To everyone trying to lecture us on counterfeit cards and so on, this is not the current problem. I have 15 different cards, all of them have worked for more than a year on my Mavic Pro. Today, I tried all of them in my drone and ALL say “too slow”. DJI has a problem with latest update. This is...

My Mavic 2 is off the shelf normal. It’s flying fine once I calibrate. But honestly since my trip is requires me to do it 100% of the time. I’m storing it normally away from any strong magnetic fields. I’ve never had a drone that requires this and truly wonder if it’s related to the flying in...

Hi, I have just returned from a trip to Namibia with my Mavic 2 Pro. Prior to going there I did not get MAG INT warnings at all, but at every single flight location in Namibia, I had to recalibrate the compass, even in the middle of vast, remote deserts. I have learned Namibia is rich in ore...

So what I gathered from the very good video posted above about ND filters is that they really aren't very useful for anything apart from shutter speed motion blur on a moving object near the drone. For those of us who want to film landscapes or distant moving objects, the video shows the ND...

Hi there, I'm new to the ND world but just did a shoot under intense bright sunlight at midday in the desert near Palm Springs. Thinking I could compensate for the bright sunlight, I added a Polar Pro ND8 for the shoot, but left the exposure settings on automatic. Normally I try to get a good...

Not that you should get closer but what sort of results do you hope for by flying 50 km away from the volcano?

Flying in State parks is not illegal in many California parks. It is legal in Bodie and is usually up to the discretion of the individual park, I believe. Which park was this?

The debate has continued on Nextdoor. It turns out quite a few people use drones for real estate ads, which means they do a fair amount of hovering over and around private property as well as neighbors in urban areas.

Interesting Podcast on the subject:

I don't mean literally your "neighbor". The man voicing his concern is not even in my neighborhood, although he used an information sharing site called Nextdoor. He is just saying that if you accidentally cross his property at under 500 ft (!!!) that you are violating his personal property...

Who said anything about antagonizing people firestars? Unless you live in Antarctica, it's a little bit hard to fly your drone without flying over private property at some point. Are you saying you never fly over houses, fields, or other private property?

Good advice Rob. The thing is, this is a neighborhood website which actually covers my entire city and he riled up a bunch of other people saying they would shoot down the next drone they saw etc. So I have no idea where he lives but just resented his reflexive drone-hating paranoia. He also...