Recent content by Robert Prior

Just a few minutes after sunrise, so I guess technically Golden Hour but the sky still had those lovely colours so I'm calling it "sunrise" anyway. :) The colours were beginning to fade, and I wanted to get maximum use out of my season parking pass, so I set my alarm clock and headed out to...

It's likely overkill. Every battery has a cycle limit, so you'll be hitting that a bit faster. OTOH, you probably aren't flying often enough to worry about that.

Another in the woodland sunrise series. This time I managed to catch the sunrise while over actual woodland rather than reclaimed gravel pit! The colours were beginning to fade, and I wanted to get maximum use out of my season parking pass, so I set my alarm clock and headed out to East...

Part of my takeoff checklist is verifying that my drone is saving the original images. A couple of times it's somehow reset to not saving them and I didn't notice and so only have the drone-stitched panorama, which kinda sucked, which is why I've now added it to my checklist.

I use PTGUI for my equirectangular images, and find it does a good job. I think cylindrical is probably the wrong projection to use, which is why the second image looks more distorted. I don't use Photoshop so have no idea what projections it can handle (and how well it does them) but I think...

The colours were beginning to fade, and I wanted to get maximum use out of my season parking pass, so I set my alarm clock and headed out to East Duffins Headwaters to catch the sunrise. It was chilly and low cloud threatened to block the sunrise I was hoping for, but I took off anyway knowing...

Hovering above Laurel Avenue in Davis Bay. Davis Bay is a small community located just south of Sechelt on BC’s Sunshine Coast. Its most notable feature is the long pebbled beach with a paved walking path lined with viewing benches and a pier jutting out from the shoreline. Often the pier is...

A 360° panorama over the reclaimed gravel pit and hiking trails of East Duffins Headwaters… You can view a larger version of this panorama here: <a href="Early Autumn at East Duffins Headwaters (II) (Braemar LUT) 360 Panorama | 360Cities" rel="noreferrer...

Yes.

Finally getting around to processing some images from a recent trip. Follow the link at the bottome to see the panorama. This is the estuary of Wilson Creek at high tide — at low tide it’s a large mudflat. Beside the estuary is Port Stalashen, a gated community. ts'uḵw'um is the...

I had that happen a few years ago. iPad just turned black. Fortunately Canadian regs require VLOS so I was able to bring the drone home. I suppose the RTH button would have worked but I usually fly manually so didn’t even think of it at the time.

According to DJI when I asked a couple of years ago you can’t shoot a bracketed panorama automatically — you have to choose one or the other. I shoot a lot of these. I shoot three spherical panoramas in quick succession at (usually) 1/8000, 1/2000, and 1/500 and combine the resulting 105 images...

You can sync the flight records the delete them. That’s what DJI had me do when my controller filled up and I was getting a ‘can’t save flight records’ message every flight.

I’ve shot video with my Mini 3 Pro that some programs struggle to play smoothly on my old iMac, let alone my ancient MacPro (running Lion). The problem was always the playback software, because when I imported the footage into iMovie or Final Cut and rendered an output file the playback was...

It’s been more than 30 days since I connected my RC controller to the internet and I’m still logged in. I’ve got old software too, because DJI recommended I update using Assistant 2 which won’t run on my old computer. (Which reminds me: I should ask my local repair shop what they would charge to...