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    Flying Drone Anxiety

    Only when I hear distant screams and swearing!!!
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    Range extender

    I use them.. my drone returned from Mars! Or if I were to reply seriously: I’d say the difference is barely perceptible but technically possible. I say this because in the old days of CB radio I used to place my antenna on silver foil and this made a notable difference in the SWR power...
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    Range question

    850m sounds very short range! I’m getting 4-5km with mine! (But this could be down to many factors). I use antenna range extenders.. these are nothing more than curved pieces of plastic with metallic foil on the inside which seem to enhance the signal somewhat. How much, is not clear… But it...
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    Value of the Osmo Pocket

    The iPhone X has a good bit rate and the ability to use the new FilmiC Log v2 is good, but all phone video images still suffer from patterning due to over sharpening and to some extent, lens distortion as the lenses are really not the good. To have the ability of not tying up your phone as a...
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    Phantom 4 - How to fly automated route but control elevation?

    I’m using a Phantom 4 with the Litchi app. I often fly automated routes programmed before flying as I always know what I want to shoot before flying. However, I’m wondering if it’s possible to still let my flight path (route) be automated (so I don’t have to worry about where it’s going) but...
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    Phantom 4 still going strong

    Thank you .. that particular video was footage from my Walbury Hill film - west Berkshire, on the Wiltshire border.
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    Phantom 4 still going strong

    Still using a P4 for walking vids.. if the light is right it still stands up(ish) to the better drones.
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    Long Litchi Run

    Nothing wrong in the distance - 4-5k is a fairly common distance flight for me. But you should be more concerned with what’s between your starting location and the destination. NFZ, cables, People, Buildings etc.. as long as you follow the CAA/FAA regs (you’ll break them flying out-of-sight...
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    Another New Walking Film by J (Phantom 4 used)

    Hi Rene, Thank you so much for your comments.. they are very encouraging. The music I wrote and performed myself - really don’t like using royalty-free stuff as in my experience there is always someone who tries to make a claim on it!! I wrote a paper script first. I use FCPX; took me about 5...
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    Gimbal stopped working during flight!!

    Yup.. had this once last week when I switched from Normal mode into Tripod mode (for the first time!) camera just ended up pointing and wiggling at the left prop light - nothing I could do. Landed the P4, reboot, all ok after that. Was a able to continue fine until exhausting 2 batteries.
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    Another New Walking Film by J (Phantom 4 used)

    Thank you Javier. I haven’t tried using the Phantom as a ‘SteadiCam’ as the ground shots are covered by using a much cheaper consumer camcorder (less fragile, smaller and easier to shoot with).
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    Phantom 4 discontinued

    IMHO it doesn’t matter if they discontinue it, so long as they’ve ironed out the bugs. The P4 with its new addition f/w v2 is a very capable machine and does quite a bit more than it did when I purchased it in March 2016. But again, so long as the bugs are fixed and users have a reliable...
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    Another New Walking Film by J (Phantom 4 used)

    Yep.. been at it again with another walking film .. loving my Phantom 4. In addition to the Phantom I used only cheap domestic cameras in this film, even an iPhone 6 for one shot AHHH! Yet another example of how I use my Phantom. Hope you like it.