Recent content by timsewell

Very nicely done.

The only thing that would get me to buy a Mini 3 (or a competitor's sub-250g offering) would be 10bit video.

Why shouldn't it be happening?

Almost - your eyes don't see motion blur in real life. It's the amount of blur we are culturally conditioned to view as realistic due to exposure, from an early age, to footage shot... conforming to the 180deg shutter rule! The origin of that is probably that 180 deg was in fact the maximum...

That's almost correct, but is independent of shutter speed. The sensor is read out sequentially, usually from top to bottom, into the processing pipeline. Something moving fast across your field of view is likely, with slower readouts, to have moved some distance between the point where the...

I take 'the closest point of the earth's surface' to mean the closest horizontally to the position of the drone, ie directly below it, which would be supported by the illustration used on the CAA page.

No, that's exactly what it doesn't do. The drone can be more than 400ft above its launch point (which is what the app and drone calculate altitude from), but never more than 400ft above ground level, ie the bit of ground vertically below it.

Under CAA rules your max altitude is measured from the *closest* surface. So if flying off the side of a 200m hill you could ascend to the 120m max directly above your launch point, but if you fly in the same direction as the hill's downward slope, you should adjust your height so that - looking...

There's also, of course, https://youtube.com/c/SkyHighFilmsOG/videos - quirky, but really knows his stuff.

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Philip Bloom has put out some excellent content on the 3 - possibly the most in-depth review (in 2 parts) available anywhere. https://www.youtube.com/c/philipbloom/videos

This looks great. I'v put some 'white' prism tape on the front legs of my Mini 2 and a red version on the rear - I'm hoping that in addition to helping visibility this will help to determine orientation as well. Unfortunately, once I got to a local beauty spot to test this - first time the...

The CAA rules in the UK are perfectly clear on this: