I'm mostly amazed at the video stability in-flight, compared to say, your helmet camera!! So hard to have small, light cameras be stable but you sure got some nice smooth control fliming in flight. I'm just a nightscape timelapser, my camera alone weighs more than your equipment AND those two beach chairs! But you made this drone filming look endlessly fun! Nice job!
Spent many years trying different things to reduce vibration when in flight. The first thing was finding well balanced props. Next home made foam camera pods. They reduce vibration, protect cameras and float. The final element had been the emergence of cameras with effective stabilization. For me, the GoPro 7 remains a very good unit. Newer models are heavier and do not have better performance. Smaller more recent "thumb" style cameras can not yet match the GoPro 7 for stabilization.
@@skybug3 That's GOOD info, thanks. Time for me to rid myself of my old 1080p stuff that once upon a time was state of the art! Long before drones I shot 100 miles of kiteboarding from a jittery helmet cam, and spend those many hours in Post trying to stabilize! If you been doing this long, you'll remember those days!! But, I'm stoked for you because the whole fun of it, is steady improvements and that is what "gets us out there" to go for it! Oh, and in my old days, I used gel-pods, actually soap beads that are pretty tough, instead of foam. Gotta be something better now tho! LOL! Good luck.
Glad to see you are still flying. Quite impressive results with the long development of your camera platform.
I enjoy the process of tweaking and adding to my drone fleet, although sometimes I feel I forget lessons learnt, and have to get back to basics.
Liked the Kanga hops on landing, skilful.
Second flight of the day curse. Might try deep breathing before landing next. 😅
I'm mostly amazed at the video stability in-flight, compared to say, your helmet camera!! So hard to have small, light cameras be stable but you sure got some nice smooth control fliming in flight. I'm just a nightscape timelapser, my camera alone weighs more than your equipment AND those two beach chairs! But you made this drone filming look endlessly fun! Nice job!
Spent many years trying different things to reduce vibration when in flight. The first thing was finding well balanced props. Next home made foam camera pods. They reduce vibration, protect cameras and float. The final element had been the emergence of cameras with effective stabilization. For me, the GoPro 7 remains a very good unit. Newer models are heavier and do not have better performance. Smaller more recent "thumb" style cameras can not yet match the GoPro 7 for stabilization.
@@skybug3 That's GOOD info, thanks. Time for me to rid myself of my old 1080p stuff that once upon a time was state of the art! Long before drones I shot 100 miles of kiteboarding from a jittery helmet cam, and spend those many hours in Post trying to stabilize! If you been doing this long, you'll remember those days!! But, I'm stoked for you because the whole fun of it, is steady improvements and that is what "gets us out there" to go for it! Oh, and in my old days, I used gel-pods, actually soap beads that are pretty tough, instead of foam. Gotta be something better now tho! LOL! Good luck.
Amen. Manned aviation is insane with the amount of death involved. The human factor being the biggest cause of crashes the world over.
Yep - things can go wrong so quickly when you have to make critical decisions under pressure when controlling any aircraft.