Recent content by saltydrone

To answer your question, yes you have to register if the drone is 250g or above. For the mini 3 that means if you add a strobe, landing gear, prop guard, or the Plus battery. Registration is easy and cheap. I registered mine right away, as I sometimes add a strobe or the larger battery.

Late to the party, but got my Fly More kit from Drdrone.ca on Thursday

My Fly More kit arrived without shrinkwrap. But there was a security sticker I had to break to open it

I personally am pleased with the 48mp image. I find them much sharper than if I simply interpolate a 12mp version the same size. My biggest complaint is it has a darker exposure. Is anyone else experiencing this? Notice in the video below how when going from 4k to 48mp it gets darker (watch...

It's true that I exclusively use auto, though that behaviour happens every time I switch into 48mp mode, and reverses when I switch out. While the video above is a dynamic lighting environment, what you see is consistent with every time I use the 48mp mode. Though it's most noticeable in images...

It's with JPG. I can see it through the controller - as soon as I switch into 48mp mode the shadows and midtones get darker. Edit: here you can see the picture get darker in 48mp mode, but is brighter in 4k and 12mp modes. In this video you especially see it in the trees.

OK you have me interested now. Are others not experiencing the same thing? Yes, the exact same settings and only a few seconds apart. I agree the 48mp seems a stop or too darker, and I've experimented with increasing the EV, but it's still too dark in the shadows when the highlights start to get...

Me too, actually. I know the owners of it - might be a bit more boat than they bargained for, but are enjoying it.

If that was my boat, I'd have a Mavic 3 ;) Not mine, just love the look of it.

Funny for me I find the 48mp images much better compared to resizing the 12mp images in Photoshop ("Preserve Details 2.0" mode). 12mp: 48mp: My biggest gripe with the 48mp photos is that they tend to be darker. I find the 12mp usually (but not always) tends to look better out of the box

Here is the flight on Phantom Help - certainly open to any interpretation. I think I started pushing right (and not seeing any reaction) at about 14m 47s, give or take a second. I definitely get that high level flights can run into wind that is not felt down low, though in my ~10hrs of total...

Yeah, I'm running the most recent firmware version....

I was flying tonight, about 30 minutes after sunset, over the woods. Gimbal pointing straight down, shooting 4k video. It was a calm night with almost no wind. I had just been hovering low over tree tops, and the trees were calm with no movement (e.g. no wind). Everything was going fine, until...

Thanks for this. The gear seems to make this all work out. Is that gear generally pretty light? I have an ARC V and put it on the back of my battery door, due to lack of any better option. I experimented with the top placement which was okay, but the bottom would certainly be better.

Where do you mount the bottom strobe? Have a pic?