Recent content by szh

As someone not experienced with video, I still found compression artefacts that were noticeable and annoying. If you look at the lakebed carefully in this video, you'll see it "jumping" from keyframe to keyframe instead of moving continuously. I don't know if 100 MBps would fix that ...

I can't say much about taking the drone into China because I activated it there for the first time. I did need a Chinese phone number for that (and someone to help with translation). You should probably get a local phone number—it's easy, and you might be able to do it at the airport when you...

I checked the leaked box photo carefully. It does indeed say "32MP spherical panorama" (in Chinese).

Ah, that makes sense. I just couldn't believe that it would really get a 32 MP sensor, with everything that requires (sharp lens, processing). Probably it'll be the usual 12 MP resolution.

That 32 MP is an unusually high resolution for a cell-phone size (1/2.3 in) sensor. It would be ~6500 pixels wide. I hope it won't compromise other aspects of image quality, especially in video. It is going to require a lot of horsepower to downscale that resolution to 4K, if it does...

I found a page for Sachsen which is in German, but the machine translation is reasonably easy to understand. This is from an official source, and less confusing than some of the forum posts that are floating around. Drohnen und Flugmodelle | Achtung: Betrieb mit unbemannten Fluggeräten!

Sächsische Schweiz Very nice indeed, and also off-limits (not only according to Airmap, but also according to their website). I do wonder about the Czech side though, across the border. That would be another question though, about Czech regulations. It's disappointing (and puzzling) that...

I'd also love to hear suggestions about nice locations to fly at in Sachsen.

I am looking for reliable, complete, and up-to-date information on drone regulations in Germany, as well as practical advice on flying there. There are several web pages and forum posts on this topic, but most seem incomplete, or they do not fully agree with each other. I do not speak German...

Many of the "ND filters" available for the Mavic seem to have a clearly noticeable colour tint. They aren't neutral at all. Some are also polarizing. Take a look at the various Polar Pro filter with/without comparisons on YouTube. Honestly, the effect from slowing the shutter speed (motion...

I noticed that only when reviewing the footage. It's huge, I estimated ~1.5 meters using the higher resolution source video. It's probably a wels catfish.

A cover of waterbirds from an unusual perspective :-) This is our first complete short film made with a drone. Any constructive criticism is welcome. The music was composed by Monica Xiao. Check out her other compositions too.

Android phones do not have a central location for storing photos/videos. Photo apps (such as the included Gallery app) do collect all pictures/videos, but these are at different locations in the file system, and as I said, in this case the Gallery app was not showing this video at all, only the...

I noticed minor damage on one of the propellers. There is a slight bend at one point which I cannot unbend. It is present on both blades, around the same area. I am not sure how it got there. It was either pressed during transport (unlikely, as I was careful), or it happened when I accidentally...

The other day I forgot to clean up the SD card in the drone, and the card soon ran out of space. So I downloaded a couple of the videos to the (Android) phone I was using, and deleted them from the drone. How can I access these originals (not cached versions) on the Android device? In the DJI...