Recent content by RogerDH

It sounds like Quicktime Player might have exported using a bitrate much lower than the original. I believe there's a way to specify the bitrate you want, and if so, then you might try setting it to the same as the original.

Here's a good explanation. Briefly, the image processor has two "native ISO" pathways, and the "fusion" mode is a form of HDR (high dynamic range) image using both pathways.

For some of us, anyway, the biggest advantage that all 3 previous Minis still have over the 4 is that they are supported in the SDK that allows third party apps. The biggest advantage for the RC-N2 (in addition to being $200 cheaper) is that you will be able to use those apps if the Mini 4 is...

If the blurred corner also appears in shots without the filter, a common cause for one side or corner to be out of focus is that the optical axis of the lens is not quite perpendicular to the sensor -- a manufacturing defect. I believe I've read on this board of at least one Mini 3 that DJI...

It might be that the rules are confusing now because the FAA recently changed course about registering drones if you're a recreational pilot. Originally, you registered as a pilot, but you did not register each drone. Now, even if you register as a recreational pilot, the FAA wants you to list...

Perhaps I should have been clearer: It doesn't say anything specifically about drones, so it doesn't address the issue at hand.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:49%20chapter:441%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-chapter441)&f=treesort&num=0&edition=prelim It's about registering aircraft, but it doesn't mention the word "drone" anywhere.

I had something similar for my Mini and found it to be pretty useless to stop flares -- they're too short. If you look at this photo, sunlight can get in from the same angle as this photo view, which would be well outside the camera's angle of view.

Ah, somehow I missed hearing about that, thanks -- I suppose I would have found out when I have to renew next year, and I'm okay with that. I guess it's not surprising that they closed that loophole. I was thinking more along the lines of how simply having RID in place would discourage at...

If you are not a Part 107 pilot, you must register as a pilot to fly a drone over 250g, but you don't register each drone individually, so the FAA will not know those RIDs. In addition to providing some degree of accountability for drones that cause damage, of course RIDs can be used to enforce...

I didn't notice that the CNET download that I linked above is Version 1.4.4, but I found a link to Version 2.0.3 on the Wayback Machine. (There are other places it can be found, but the Wayback Machine is an archive directly from microsoft.com, so probably safer.)

With freeware Image Composite Editor (ICE), a curved horizon is easily fixed by dragging the center of the composited image up and down before final rendering. It usually does an excellent job on drone photos -- no stitching errors -- and it can also make panoramas directly from videos, which I...

The rule says that any drone that needs to be registered must have RID, which is the case for any drone over 250g but also any drone that is used for non-recreational (Part 107) purposes, regardless of weight. Apparently, DJI has decided to enable it on all drones because the drone cannot...

Thanks, scro! So, the results are as expected: The photo is the full sensor, 4032x3024, and the 4K video is a 3840x2160 crop from the center, losing only 96 pixels on each side but 432 pixels from the top and bottom. As noted before, that cropping is just to make a standard size 4K frame with...

Hmm, that seems like an unnecessarily small crop for EIS. Anyway, I'm thinking now that what was posted is not an actual video frame but just a manual crop from the photo, perhaps intended only as "not actual size, for illustrative purposes only." But unless alexjo55 returns and/or someone...