Took the Mavic outside yesterday for the first flight. All went well, but wasn't happy with the video recording (just didn't think it was great quality). I had left all the settings stock, so watched a ton of YouTube videos, and tried for better looking video quality settings today. Not a pro, so wasn't going for awesome, just good enough compared to video I've seen out there.
Took off, and noticed the image on my phone jumping around like crazy. If I went forward at full stick, the camera swung down. If I pulled back to stop, the camera swung forward then rocked back and forth. Same when going side to side. Clearly the gimbal wasn't working. Worked fine yesterday.
Landed, turned the Mavic off, turned it back on, and watched the start up sequence on the gimbal. All looked good, and while moving the Mavic around by hand and looking at the image on my phone all looked good now. Seems like the gimbal is working again. Did a short test flight, all looked good regarding the gimbal.
Landed, re-grouped, everything looked good, so took it up again to record a longer video. The image looked jittery to me on the phone still, figured it might be lag so wasn't worried. I turned on TRIPOD mode in order to slow all of the actions down, and get some sweeping shots. Just trying to get nice, still, sweeping shots. While turning the Mavic, or moving up/down, the image seems really jittery. Obviously when I move the camera up/down (to look up a little, or straight down at the ground), that moves quickly, so I would expect that to be jittery, but if I'm sitting in place, spinning, in tripod mode, at half stick, I would think I'd get a smooth image.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or maybe I'm being overly sensitive??
I just got the Mavic in on Wednesday off of Amazon. If this is a defect, I don't think I want to go through DJI and wait. I'd assume I'm better off just doing an exchange through Amazon, sending it back to them, and let Amazon send me a new one.
Thoughts?
Uploaded three videos.
Gimbal Issue Video (you can see some flickering):
https://youtu.be/1xNd-W8F-_w
Gimbal Fine (Video taken right after the prior video, after turning Mavic off/on):
https://youtu.be/MgKT-BY7FE4
Jittery Picture (there is a major flicker at 1:20):
https://youtu.be/ohfeM_djK5Y
Took off, and noticed the image on my phone jumping around like crazy. If I went forward at full stick, the camera swung down. If I pulled back to stop, the camera swung forward then rocked back and forth. Same when going side to side. Clearly the gimbal wasn't working. Worked fine yesterday.
Landed, turned the Mavic off, turned it back on, and watched the start up sequence on the gimbal. All looked good, and while moving the Mavic around by hand and looking at the image on my phone all looked good now. Seems like the gimbal is working again. Did a short test flight, all looked good regarding the gimbal.
Landed, re-grouped, everything looked good, so took it up again to record a longer video. The image looked jittery to me on the phone still, figured it might be lag so wasn't worried. I turned on TRIPOD mode in order to slow all of the actions down, and get some sweeping shots. Just trying to get nice, still, sweeping shots. While turning the Mavic, or moving up/down, the image seems really jittery. Obviously when I move the camera up/down (to look up a little, or straight down at the ground), that moves quickly, so I would expect that to be jittery, but if I'm sitting in place, spinning, in tripod mode, at half stick, I would think I'd get a smooth image.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or maybe I'm being overly sensitive??
I just got the Mavic in on Wednesday off of Amazon. If this is a defect, I don't think I want to go through DJI and wait. I'd assume I'm better off just doing an exchange through Amazon, sending it back to them, and let Amazon send me a new one.
Thoughts?
Uploaded three videos.
Gimbal Issue Video (you can see some flickering):
https://youtu.be/1xNd-W8F-_w
Gimbal Fine (Video taken right after the prior video, after turning Mavic off/on):
https://youtu.be/MgKT-BY7FE4
Jittery Picture (there is a major flicker at 1:20):
https://youtu.be/ohfeM_djK5Y
