New to drone flying, my mind broke when I saw your yard because I have been learning on the sim Liftoff. "Wow this guys yard looks like that map in that drone game" lol
These are 100% no dought being marketed towards military use. Especially when combined with the thermal camera and and a flight controller with a multi camera switch.
They are practically illegal for civilians in most countries to use for their intended purpose anyway. We are required to maintain unaided visual line of sight at all times and depending on the country you need to be able to tell orientation too. So to fly at night you need bright lights on the drone and different colours front and back, if night flying is even legal in the first place since you can’t see what is around the drone, so then you probably need to add normal lights too so you can see what is around the drone LOS, completely defeating the point of this camera. So yeah definitely military use and illegal for us to use properly anyway. Camera switches aren’t that unusual though but are definitely something useful for having multiple types of camera or multiple views, like an FPV view and a directly downwards “dropping” view. Edit: also most “night vision” cameras use IR lights, this doesn’t seem to. If you are trying to be stealthy then it would be possible for your enemy to pick up your IR lights too and either know you are there, find you or attack you so a camera that needs no IR lights would be very good for stealth.
@@conorstewart2214 😂 1. noone cares about gov regulations about collision lights, who's gonna see you flying at night ? 2. Commercial operations and flying on your own land are exempt from than below a certain AGL. 3. for drone based security patrols on large sites, this is very useful and 10x more affordable and lighter than a thermal camera. A video mixer could even overlay a low res thermal over the 0lux camera
@@campandcook3118 you are just wrong. Private land doesn't matter at all in most countries even below certain heights because you do not own the airspace. In the middle of nowhere they likely won't see or catch you flying at night but that all depends on where you fly. Drone based security patrols have the same restrictions as anyone else, they need to keep visual line of sight and comply with all other regulations.
The NightEagle Pro 2 was legendary in my opinion, even with the 100% lack of color, got used to it quickly. What most people don’t consider is how crisp and clear the image was due to the very fact it was true monochrome in daylight, I never owned any other analogue camera that even came close to the sharpness that cameras image was. Will def be checking this out as well.
I am fairly new to fpv and dont know the cameras. But I work with optics for automation and on small chips the pixel densitiy advantage of ir cameras can improve the picture massively. Do you think that is whats in play here. To explain you can do every pixel ir instead of having 3 seperate rgb pixels.
@@andi67951 I think that is most likely the same reason as you mention, and as I understand it the Night Eagle line of cameras weren’t even able to produce a color image due to the sensor it used, so you may be right on the money. I do know from my experience in still photography that any exposure shot in monochrome has a clarity and crispness that just isn’t present VS shooting in color then converting to monochrome. Why that is, I have no idea. I can only imagine the crispness with the Night Eagle line is for the same reason tho.
NVC are awesome, Ive used a lot in the service , we call it blackout driving, I could come really close, without the enemy seeing , now we can fly at night with good vision...thats wild!! Im sure its gona get better fom here.
This works best for operating at dusk, when visual light cameras stop working, while the environment is still hot and the targets don't stand out enough to pick them up with a thermal cam.
Going by the name itself and the look of the foliage in the day time, I'd bet the magic here is that's it's a full spectrum camera / has no hot mirror (it sees UV, Visible light, near infrared) that's been greyscaled. I do near infrared photography and the bright foliage is one of the major characteristics. That would also explain why it got so bright in that room with the flashlight under the door.
I'm Dji due to the excellent penetration and low latency. My night vision quad is running the Runcam Eagle HD w/ a caddx vista transmission unit, couldn't be happier.
The RunCam Night Eagle HD is an amazing alternative for DJI pilots. It's not zero lux but extremely low lux - enough to fly in the dead of night - and it has excellent resolution and zero extra latency. The image is also crystal clear without any blurriness like this camera, even at high speeds.
The RUNCAM Night Eagle HD only has a 1/2.8 sensor, but the Caddx infra sensor is 1/1.8, which is a much larger sensor area. Additionally, the Caddx infra has an aperture of F1.0
Put a fpv camera switch on it to switch between thermal vision and moonlight vision . A camera switch connects parallel to the fight controllers sbus input but the switch has the 2 cameras going into it and the output going into the flight controller . And the camera switcher responds to the aux3 channel 2 position switch . As for the lens i think head tracker could be a fun way to compensate for a wide angle lens .
Infantry veteran here and with Night Vision goggles they have a component called image intensifiers and it grabs ambient lighting and intensifies it. It too would be ineffective in total darkness. Lastly, NVGs are also considered analog technology.
That setup would be a good option for your RC 4x4. Latency not as big a deal. Real impressive how well it works. I have the Foxeer Night Cat infrared 850nm. Not up to the caddx level of low light , very capable with an IR illuminator. Especially for 4x4ing around in the dark. No latency issues is a big plus and no giant box hanging off it. 😎
Hey! super cool video and I'm glad you covered this! I did want to mention since you were questioning it, yes it does change latency from how much exposure it has. People in the arms industry are hard at work for trying to figure out ways to reduce it. Funny enough, the FPV camera industry and digital night vision are both trying to help each other in that regard.
And I quote, "Holy Crap, I can't see shit!" I've experienced that kind of thing before, and that's exactly what i said! Love the review, JB. You're one of the reasons why I still fly, my guy! Thanks
Hi Josh, I have been waiting to see a video on the Caddx Infra, I love flying at night, especially in the summer when it's too hot to fly during the day. But B/W video, I been flying the Caddx Ratel starlight for great day video and very good Color night time video. Yes, this is the best night video I seen in a while. Hopefully, the V2 version will be color. Thanks for the video and info on the Caddx Infra.
Great review. I love seeing shadows in IR, it’s such a cool thought when you realise that something can have multiple shadows in different light spectrums. Would love to see what this unit is like if there is an IR illuminator attached…. Could definately go into the barn then!
Looks like it'd be the ideal 'pilots camera' for a Cine Quad for when you've got a gig filming a night time scene in a film, such as the classic city streets overview with cine camera pointing down and this making sure you can avoid the buildings. For that, the latency would not be as much of an issue.
After the CheaterKwad builds I played with Night Owls and Night Eagles along with some day cams, could switch between day and night cameras on analog just fine. 830nm IR LEDS gave me a lot of capability inside with the light reflecting off white walls.
You could try flying it in pitch dark with a couple of bright Infrared LEDs attached onto the front of the drone.... Navigating through those tree branches will be much easier then
i bought a cheap set of $300 digital nvgs and i was blown away by how good they worked just as you were here. also, the darker it is the more lag there is, during the day there is almost none. i bought them for night riding my bikes and it takes some getting used to, probably exactly like trying to fpv your drone lol i would love to see how things work for you with that little ir light strapped to the drone, i put one on the end of a rifle
11:27 thank you so much for showing the quality of the night sky. i guess my nvg10 can see the stars a lil better,. but still im wondering if u could add a lense to see stars better or if u coudl see thjem better on ur end maybe?
Great camera testing! The Run Cam Night Eagle 2 Pro works very well in total darkness only if it is a cloudy night so that any city lights can reflect off the clouds for the camera to pick up. On a clear night sky, not so well. To mitigate the electrical noise, I installed iFlight LC filter in addition to twisting the video cable with the camera power cables.
after all, this is if not 95% then 90% safe camera production for Ukraine 🤔 having said that, it is quite an exciting move from Cadex, it will be exciting to follow developments within this camera type 👍😀👍
Hello, love your work. I am considering an agricultural drone for our farm. Sounds great but I would use it maybe 1 month a year. I am also a pilot and would to use it for search and rescue. Everyone I have talk dealer wise says it can't be cone. For you, can it be done and could you help me with this diy project
Very nice video, it's refreshing to see a new cool product launch after the last few months have been just beef around DJI ban, Rotor Riot becoming a war machine. Glad to see some positive content and cool camera for sure.
Dude caddx released this and a 4w 1.2ghz vtx, who do you think would have been asking them for that? Also RR should really make a drone frame called war machine now lol
That was a fun ride along. I imagine I'd flip a little too altho I knew this tech existed I've never thought about flying in pitch blackness. But with the heat so brutal this summer night flying sounds appealing. Looks way fun but I think I'll go with one of your other recommendations because latency was harsh for FS. lol and I doubt anyone was offended by your authentic natural reaction to some cool ish.
You need to do some night flights with a go pro or low light action camera onboard so you can show the side by side. Flying at night is a neat trick but where this really would be useful is getting new cinematic shots that are impossible today.
The delay would suggest some form of internal frame stacking (adding the luma channels of multiple frames.) Probably accounts for the blur on fast movement too.
@@american7169in the movies and in training they did, in the real war they didn't. FPV drones are the main weapon now - they're fast, deadly and they are CHEAP. What's the point of spending 1kk$ оn something 10x better, when you have somethnig capable of blowing a tank for just 200$?
@@american7169yep! Seeing as civilians can now purchase 3rd gen nvg's with a thermal overlay, I'd love to know what certain elements of the military use now.. 🤔🧐
I was shocked to see how well the Avata 2 flew in low light. I was flying the other day and when I took my goggles off it was much darker. Obviously it can't fly in the dark like this one, but it does pretty well. Of course being able to adjust the ISO is the key here.
Impressive. So what if you added a pinky digit sized infra-red laser with lens removed for wide coverage? You'd have onboard illumination for completely dark areas and maybe some general night vision image improvement?
I have a camera switch that picks up aux 7 hooked parallel to the sbus output of the reciever going to the flight controller . It switches between 2 video signals from 2 cameras on your quapter Use color camera in daytime and flick aux 7 to switch to infra red at night ?
well honestly about the latency issue and it getting all weird in pitch dark areas is the ai thing. And it is heavily software based so the latency can improve with newer firmware and see in even darker places, i will also advise you to test after just putting some 3.7v ir leds around the camera or the frame which might help a lot. That will be very interesting to see honesly!
Remember the caddx ratel pro last january ? .00001lux i think people were talking about switching the lens with more wide view . Or try a spotlight mounted hooked to an s pad to make it switch on and off
makes sense right? Low light = long exposure if it's already maxed out all the gain, and it has to wait until the end of that exposure to send that frame so latency. Also, if it's that good, you just need a TEENY headlight on your quad to give it enough light for flying inside that barn.
There is also a solution when it comes to making your typical camera mor sensitive to light and go into IR spectrum. You take your average Foxeer/Caddx camera and unscrew the lens. under the lens there will be a small square shaped glass. This is an IR filter. Take it out, screw the lens back in, adjust the focus and you're good to go. Works really well with IR lights attached, but be careful, those have to be directional in order to avoid getting the light directly in the camera.
This is for surveillance drones. If you add a focus sable layer and lensed illuminator this will allow you to illuminate distant objects and close up too
I feel light a low light or starlight camera without an IR filter (which they might already come without) and some IR lights on the drone would likely do as well as this but with lower latency.
I used to do night flies with a buddy of mine and we were always amased how good the nightaegle 2 performes, but this is insane! And since we flew fixed wing, we would mine that delay that much 😮 thats like actuall night vision tubes with insane delay tho
This is something I'd rather have on a plane to night fly. If the Infra is here now, I imagine something with heat signature can't be too far down the pipe.
@3:34 I noticed specs a few seconds before showed PAL; I'd expect NTSC instead for North America. Maybe your monitor was auto grabbing framerate in PAL after auto detection?
QUESTION...CAN YOU GET FRONT AND REAR ,,,,,simotaniously...VIDEO IN ANY GOGGLES? Im new to fpv and currently looking for my setup to build....everything.
Great video. Have you figured out what the digital connector on the "AI-module" is for? Is it for a digital camera or is it for connecting to a digital VTX? There is so little info about this Caddx Infra that I have not yet been able to use it. I see you only use it with an analog VTX, is that the only option for this system? Thank you.
Oh damn i wanted this. I thought had vtx built-in to connect to Walksnail. Didn't think I'd still needed Walksnail avatar.. wanted to put on my small slow tank I explore at night with
Try strap your IR-light under the drone and fly at night again :D
Ir, not UV.
Right idea, opposite end of the visible spectrum
Hehe, sorry. Of course IR.
What an amazing idea 😮
This is what I suggested to some dude who try to replace broken lens from another camera but that lens didn't have IR filter :)
These ESC beeps really got me at the start.
Seriously it makes censoring the naughty words a treat!
I shit myself 😭 luckily I was already on the toilet when I clicked on video 😭😭
I don't get the esc beeps reference..
Oh sorry I'm slow. The esc beeps are bleeping the profanity.. for the next guy who doesn't get it.
Haha🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Latency and motion blur suggests maybe it's combining multiple frames to maximise sensitivity
Or if their “AI” claim is true it is running some algorithm or “AI” model on it which would also increase latency.
It's a good start it will only improve from here
New to drone flying, my mind broke when I saw your yard because I have been learning on the sim Liftoff. "Wow this guys yard looks like that map in that drone game" lol
You know it will be a good video when Joshua bardwell says holy s*** 3 times in the first 10 seconds of the video
These are 100% no dought being marketed towards military use. Especially when combined with the thermal camera and and a flight controller with a multi camera switch.
They are practically illegal for civilians in most countries to use for their intended purpose anyway. We are required to maintain unaided visual line of sight at all times and depending on the country you need to be able to tell orientation too. So to fly at night you need bright lights on the drone and different colours front and back, if night flying is even legal in the first place since you can’t see what is around the drone, so then you probably need to add normal lights too so you can see what is around the drone LOS, completely defeating the point of this camera.
So yeah definitely military use and illegal for us to use properly anyway.
Camera switches aren’t that unusual though but are definitely something useful for having multiple types of camera or multiple views, like an FPV view and a directly downwards “dropping” view.
Edit: also most “night vision” cameras use IR lights, this doesn’t seem to. If you are trying to be stealthy then it would be possible for your enemy to pick up your IR lights too and either know you are there, find you or attack you so a camera that needs no IR lights would be very good for stealth.
@conorstewart2214 I use on a ground vehicle at night. I explore at night with my tank. The analog ratel 2 works but not like this
And rescue operations after natural disasters or collapsed buildings maybe?
@@conorstewart2214 😂 1. noone cares about gov regulations about collision lights, who's gonna see you flying at night ?
2. Commercial operations and flying on your own land are exempt from than below a certain AGL.
3. for drone based security patrols on large sites, this is very useful and 10x more affordable and lighter than a thermal camera.
A video mixer could even overlay a low res thermal over the 0lux camera
@@campandcook3118 you are just wrong. Private land doesn't matter at all in most countries even below certain heights because you do not own the airspace.
In the middle of nowhere they likely won't see or catch you flying at night but that all depends on where you fly.
Drone based security patrols have the same restrictions as anyone else, they need to keep visual line of sight and comply with all other regulations.
The NightEagle Pro 2 was legendary in my opinion, even with the 100% lack of color, got used to it quickly. What most people don’t consider is how crisp and clear the image was due to the very fact it was true monochrome in daylight, I never owned any other analogue camera that even came close to the sharpness that cameras image was. Will def be checking this out as well.
Even the eagle 2 pro was legendary. Looked back at some footage and it looked like hdzero in lowlight
I am fairly new to fpv and dont know the cameras.
But I work with optics for automation and on small chips the pixel densitiy advantage of ir cameras can improve the picture massively.
Do you think that is whats in play here.
To explain you can do every pixel ir instead of having 3 seperate rgb pixels.
@@andi67951that’s sick! Does that mean it’s like 3x the usable pixel density, relatively?
@@andi67951 I think that is most likely the same reason as you mention, and as I understand it the Night Eagle line of cameras weren’t even able to produce a color image due to the sensor it used, so you may be right on the money. I do know from my experience in still photography that any exposure shot in monochrome has a clarity and crispness that just isn’t present VS shooting in color then converting to monochrome. Why that is, I have no idea. I can only imagine the crispness with the Night Eagle line is for the same reason tho.
Perfect for night time reconnaissance.
NVC are awesome, Ive used a lot in the service , we call it blackout driving, I could come really close, without the enemy seeing , now we can fly at night with good vision...thats wild!! Im sure its gona get better fom here.
This works best for operating at dusk, when visual light cameras stop working, while the environment is still hot and the targets don't stand out enough to pick them up with a thermal cam.
Just what they need in certain parts of the world now. Caddx is exploring new markets. Yay.
Lol at this point the might as well try to get a government contract
Going by the name itself and the look of the foliage in the day time, I'd bet the magic here is that's it's a full spectrum camera / has no hot mirror (it sees UV, Visible light, near infrared) that's been greyscaled. I do near infrared photography and the bright foliage is one of the major characteristics. That would also explain why it got so bright in that room with the flashlight under the door.
I'm Dji due to the excellent penetration and low latency. My night vision quad is running the Runcam Eagle HD w/ a caddx vista transmission unit, couldn't be happier.
_"What in the Dickens"_
Indeed.
Bully. Yes Bully I say ol chap
indubitably
The RunCam Night Eagle HD is an amazing alternative for DJI pilots. It's not zero lux but extremely low lux - enough to fly in the dead of night - and it has excellent resolution and zero extra latency. The image is also crystal clear without any blurriness like this camera, even at high speeds.
The RUNCAM Night Eagle HD only has a 1/2.8 sensor, but the Caddx infra sensor is 1/1.8, which is a much larger sensor area. Additionally, the Caddx infra has an aperture of F1.0
@@xmos-amazing I think the Night Eagle HD has F/1.0 aperture as it uses the same sensor as the Night Eagle 3
Put a fpv camera switch on it to switch between thermal vision and moonlight vision . A camera switch connects parallel to the fight controllers sbus input but the switch has the 2 cameras going into it and the output going into the flight controller . And the camera switcher responds to the aux3 channel 2 position switch .
As for the lens i think head tracker could be a fun way to compensate for a wide angle lens .
I feel like this is much more appropriate for fixed-wing builds
Why?
@@DingleBerryschnapps latency isn’t as relevant for fixed wing
I was thinking the same. Some long range fpv at night would be amazing.
Makes sense… plenty of room in most planes.
@@powerstroke01 i've done this a few times with a Foxeer Cat3, yep it's amazing.
Rarely do we get a bardwell omg reaction like this. Awesome
Infantry veteran here and with Night Vision goggles they have a component called image intensifiers and it grabs ambient lighting and intensifies it. It too would be ineffective in total darkness.
Lastly, NVGs are also considered analog technology.
That setup would be a good option for your RC 4x4. Latency not as big a deal. Real impressive how well it works.
I have the Foxeer Night Cat infrared 850nm. Not up to the caddx level of low light , very capable with an IR illuminator. Especially for 4x4ing around in the dark. No latency issues is a big plus and no giant box hanging off it. 😎
This would be a cool one to put onto a ground vehicle.
Hey! super cool video and I'm glad you covered this! I did want to mention since you were questioning it, yes it does change latency from how much exposure it has. People in the arms industry are hard at work for trying to figure out ways to reduce it. Funny enough, the FPV camera industry and digital night vision are both trying to help each other in that regard.
Wow! That's incredible... Finally some new / more innovation
Every time I watch Josh, I actually learn something.
The barn was lit up BY THE FC LEDs! Wow! For a plane it would be amazing
i might make a night vision goggle with this camera cause thats good
And I quote, "Holy Crap, I can't see shit!" I've experienced that kind of thing before, and that's exactly what i said! Love the review, JB. You're one of the reasons why I still fly, my guy! Thanks
Hasn't everybody who flys FPV said that multiple times?
The Thot Slayer tshirt goes stupid hard. I aspire to be as cool as Bardwell when I reach his age
people still look at shirt graphics?
@@markifi More so than they read anyway lol
Hi Josh, I have been waiting to see a video on the Caddx Infra, I love flying at night, especially in the summer when it's too hot to fly during the day. But B/W video, I been flying the Caddx Ratel starlight for great day video and very good Color night time video. Yes, this is the best night video I seen in a while. Hopefully, the V2 version will be color. Thanks for the video and info on the Caddx Infra.
Great review. I love seeing shadows in IR, it’s such a cool thought when you realise that something can have multiple shadows in different light spectrums.
Would love to see what this unit is like if there is an IR illuminator attached…. Could definately go into the barn then!
Looks like it'd be the ideal 'pilots camera' for a Cine Quad for when you've got a gig filming a night time scene in a film, such as the classic city streets overview with cine camera pointing down and this making sure you can avoid the buildings. For that, the latency would not be as much of an issue.
Ukraine is going to love this!!!
And partisans would also.
Fantastic flying and review, Joshua! 😃
Really impressive camera!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
After the CheaterKwad builds I played with Night Owls and Night Eagles along with some day cams, could switch between day and night cameras on analog just fine. 830nm IR LEDS gave me a lot of capability inside with the light reflecting off white walls.
You could try flying it in pitch dark with a couple of bright Infrared LEDs attached onto the front of the drone.... Navigating through those tree branches will be much easier then
i bought a cheap set of $300 digital nvgs and i was blown away by how good they worked just as you were here. also, the darker it is the more lag there is, during the day there is almost none. i bought them for night riding my bikes and it takes some getting used to, probably exactly like trying to fpv your drone lol
i would love to see how things work for you with that little ir light strapped to the drone, i put one on the end of a rifle
That's totally insane. Pitch dark and the camera still outputs daylight video feed. Amazing. Would love one "nano" version for tiny whoop.
lol JB at the start of this video lol love it
Narrow FOV, works when there is no light, requires mostly steady flying, larger frame... Seems like it's made for one country.
So good to hear your insects.
11:27 thank you so much for showing the quality of the night sky. i guess my nvg10 can see the stars a lil better,. but still im wondering if u could add a lense to see stars better or if u coudl see thjem better on ur end maybe?
Great camera testing! The Run Cam Night Eagle 2 Pro works very well in total darkness only if it is a cloudy night so that any city lights can reflect off the clouds for the camera to pick up. On a clear night sky, not so well. To mitigate the electrical noise, I installed iFlight LC filter in addition to twisting the video cable with the camera power cables.
Would be.interesting to compare this with a similar normal color camera.with the IR blocking filter removed.
I always want to attach my PVS-14 in front of the O3 to see if I can fly with it lol
Whats that a light ?
@@gregorydahl The PVS-14 is a Night Vision Device that uses an image intensifier tube to enhance the light.
Nice Terma Calliper, you got there...
after all, this is if not 95% then 90% safe camera production for Ukraine 🤔 having said that, it is quite an exciting move from Cadex, it will be exciting to follow developments within this camera type 👍😀👍
Hello, love your work. I am considering an agricultural drone for our farm. Sounds great but I would use it maybe 1 month a year. I am also a pilot and would to use it for search and rescue. Everyone I have talk dealer wise says it can't be cone. For you, can it be done and could you help me with this diy project
Amazing video Josh. You are the one and only!!!
Very nice video, it's refreshing to see a new cool product launch after the last few months have been just beef around DJI ban, Rotor Riot becoming a war machine. Glad to see some positive content and cool camera for sure.
Yes... im sure 99% of those buying this camera are definitely NOT gonna be battlefield related😂
That's the complete opposite of what I thought when I saw this.
My mind instantly went to current events and how this could be abused.
This will be used on military applications.
Dude caddx released this and a 4w 1.2ghz vtx, who do you think would have been asking them for that? Also RR should really make a drone frame called war machine now lol
That was a fun ride along. I imagine I'd flip a little too altho I knew this tech existed I've never thought about flying in pitch blackness. But with the heat so brutal this summer night flying sounds appealing. Looks way fun but I think I'll go with one of your other recommendations because latency was harsh for FS. lol and I doubt anyone was offended by your authentic natural reaction to some cool ish.
We all know immediatly where these are going to be very useful. Esp analog
They have been used excessively and very successfully by various Ukrainian defense groups for several months now.
A couple of small lensed ir leds would likely boost image quality a lot and make visiting the darkest places a breeze.
You need to do some night flights with a go pro or low light action camera onboard so you can show the side by side. Flying at night is a neat trick but where this really would be useful is getting new cinematic shots that are impossible today.
Another day goes past and warfare grows a tad bit scarier lol
Yup. I am sure this is what it was developed for.
The delay would suggest some form of internal frame stacking (adding the luma channels of multiple frames.) Probably accounts for the blur on fast movement too.
I am sold! During summer we do night flying and this is ideal for planes.
I bet the little box samples the video levels and boosts when they drops.
I want to see the Foxeer FT640 V2 CVBS Thermal Camera tested
My friends in the military will love these on a servo + head track module
Because people in the military are the only ones that use night vision?
🤦
Bout to 3d print a part to mount this infront of a scope
They got way better, civilian available means military has moved on from that tech to something 10x better
@@american7169in the movies and in training they did, in the real war they didn't. FPV drones are the main weapon now - they're fast, deadly and they are CHEAP. What's the point of spending 1kk$ оn something 10x better, when you have somethnig capable of blowing a tank for just 200$?
@@american7169yep! Seeing as civilians can now purchase 3rd gen nvg's with a thermal overlay, I'd love to know what certain elements of the military use now.. 🤔🧐
good vid btw if only DJI had this in there drones dont know why they skipt this one they went str8 to lidar on the air3s?? mad good but mad
Just remove the IR filter on your dji cam and run some IR diodes. Works great, did it on one of mine back in 2020🙏
Well, I'm sold. Good on you for no crashes, but, if you had, at least finding your drone at night is way easy with all the LEDs on everything.
He's like me reacting to flying digital for the first time... 😂 Just so good
I was shocked to see how well the Avata 2 flew in low light. I was flying the other day and when I took my goggles off it was much darker.
Obviously it can't fly in the dark like this one, but it does pretty well. Of course being able to adjust the ISO is the key here.
Impressive. So what if you added a pinky digit sized infra-red laser with lens removed for wide coverage? You'd have onboard illumination for completely dark areas and maybe some general night vision image improvement?
When it was really dark in that area the mower was parked in, I think the image was being blown out by an led on the FC 😂. So cool
That camera is cool and all but what's up with your Link Quality? 😆50Hz mode and as low as 50% LQ around your yard, are your antennas on?
I have a camera switch that picks up aux 7 hooked parallel to the sbus output of the reciever going to the flight controller . It switches between 2 video signals from 2 cameras on your quapter Use color camera in daytime and flick aux 7 to switch to infra red at night ?
well honestly about the latency issue and it getting all weird in pitch dark areas is the ai thing. And it is heavily software based so the latency can improve with newer firmware and see in even darker places, i will also advise you to test after just putting some 3.7v ir leds around the camera or the frame which might help a lot. That will be very interesting to see honesly!
Remember the caddx ratel pro last january ? .00001lux i think people were talking about switching the lens with more wide view . Or try a spotlight mounted hooked to an s pad to make it switch on and off
how about placing a small ir-led on the copter?
makes sense right? Low light = long exposure if it's already maxed out all the gain, and it has to wait until the end of that exposure to send that frame so latency. Also, if it's that good, you just need a TEENY headlight on your quad to give it enough light for flying inside that barn.
This will be fun for fixed wing
There is also a solution when it comes to making your typical camera mor sensitive to light and go into IR spectrum. You take your average Foxeer/Caddx camera and unscrew the lens. under the lens there will be a small square shaped glass. This is an IR filter. Take it out, screw the lens back in, adjust the focus and you're good to go. Works really well with IR lights attached, but be careful, those have to be directional in order to avoid getting the light directly in the camera.
Try mounting a small UV light for the really dark areas. Could work.
this is now my 2nd favorite camera (even though I haven't tried it yet)
17:30 is that pinguin? Dang... I saw a pinguin in the dark 😅
This is for surveillance drones. If you add a focus sable layer and lensed illuminator this will allow you to illuminate distant objects and close up too
I remeber when the runcam owl came out,btw u could use it in light and dark, and u could put it on a 3 inch (for exaple tarot 120)
Big arrival of Caddx Infra in New Jersey these days!
Probably 5 years ago my buddy put an infrared and met and sensor on his FPV drone. Flew fine at night.
I feel light a low light or starlight camera without an IR filter (which they might already come without) and some IR lights on the drone would likely do as well as this but with lower latency.
Amazing, we need that cam
Gues where this cam would be useful in europe?
This is the perfect raid drone. Buy these while you can equip you FPV weapons fleet with this imagine all the uses for tactical operations.
So what are the thermal and digital ports for on the AI box...? Which camera is thermal at caddx?
I can't wait to cruise some parks when they are actually empty. This is better than my trail cam mod for sure 🎉
Or check to see if they are emoty 🤔
I used to do night flies with a buddy of mine and we were always amased how good the nightaegle 2 performes, but this is insane! And since we flew fixed wing, we would mine that delay that much 😮 thats like actuall night vision tubes with insane delay tho
I know how my cat see at night finaly ,nice.
Hey Joshua,
did you know the brand new dji drone?
It's a Mountainbike! Avinox Power!
Very cool bike!
go by bike
Did you end up figuring out the electrical noise issue?
This is something I'd rather have on a plane to night fly. If the Infra is here now, I imagine something with heat signature can't be too far down the pipe.
Why don’t you use angle when it gets really laggy ??
@3:34 I noticed specs a few seconds before showed PAL; I'd expect NTSC instead for North America. Maybe your monitor was auto grabbing framerate in PAL after auto detection?
NTSC for North America and PAL for Europe is a broadcast television thing. FPV cameras don't conform to that.
@@JoshuaBardwell I learned something today :) My field is CCTV and IP cams. Thanks!
hmm may be good on the surface , fpv my rubicon and night vision would be cool
Im new to drones, just got an Avata. Could I make this work on it?
QUESTION...CAN YOU GET FRONT AND REAR ,,,,,simotaniously...VIDEO IN ANY GOGGLES? Im new to fpv and currently looking for my setup to build....everything.
I want to see how it does with a capacitor on it. Aside from the diamond noise, I wonder if the clarity would generally improve.
Great video. Have you figured out what the digital connector on the "AI-module" is for? Is it for a digital camera or is it for connecting to a digital VTX? There is so little info about this Caddx Infra that I have not yet been able to use it. I see you only use it with an analog VTX, is that the only option for this system? Thank you.
I've been removing IR filters from lenses for years so if I want' to fly in darkness it's a simple lens swap.
Imo, the tree detail here looks much better than just removing the IR filter.
It's more than just removing IR filter, Caddx didnt add the the Bayer filter on top of the sensor. Thats why Its also black and white.
Oh damn i wanted this. I thought had vtx built-in to connect to Walksnail. Didn't think I'd still needed Walksnail avatar.. wanted to put on my small slow tank I explore at night with