Recent content by witold

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    Are drones just a passing fad? Are you bored with your 'Phantom'?

    Did you ever consider why DJI markets it as "tripod in the sky"? Phantoms are not supposed to be for active flying. They are a photo/video tool, and any other uses that come about are secondary as far as DJI is concerned. If you want to fly, get a 250-ish racer. It's very fun. I think...
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    Pissed Off DJI Dealers Over P4

    GREAT change. Maybe the rinky dinky dealers are not happy, but this is great for customers. We actually get a great dealer with amazing service - Apple - instead of fly by night shops who put up some Youtube videos and pretend to be big. Also, keep in mind DJI history. DJI China and DJI USA...
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    Phantom 4 / Phantom 3 "Enthusiast" Price announced!

    With P3P now at $999, the new $1700 has to have something very substantial. I'm guessing better camera sensor, slightly longer flight time. But increasingly, I'm paranoid about liability. I really wish DJI did a mini "dropsafe" for Phantoms or something along those lines. This would be a...
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    Demunseed Disses The P3

    Fact of the matter is that DJI has been squeezing their small dealers pretty hard. Very small margins and crap support to dealers, too. It's no wonder that several dealers have publicly started to diss DJI in favor of Random Brand No One Heard Of. If they can't make money on DJI, they gotta...
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    Life time RC battery

    It's harder to spot RC battery failing. People will notice that they need to charge more frequently, that's about it. If they are really cooking it in the car, remote will be dead and they won't know why. 500-600 charges for a normal lipo is still more than P3 expected lifetime... If P4 and...
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    Solar powered quad or hex?

    Have you seen the solar plane? It's a giant fragile ultra-light solar panel with a little barebones frame that can barely carry one person. We're not even remotely close to solar quads.
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    Constant updates

    I don't mind the updates per se, but I wish DJI actually disclosed WTF they are doing with each update. One time, I install all this stuff and all my camera settings (expo/etc) just magically disappeared and I found out as I was trying to shoot something. Features appear, option disappear...
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    Fly or no fly day, what have you got?

    NYC has been very gloomy and rainy for a while... not to mention that it's harder and harder to fly anywhere here.
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    Life time RC battery

    RC lipos generally use very low-C batteries that are not nearly as sensitive as regular lipos. The biggest thing that will kill your RC lipo is general stuff. For example, if you leave your remote in a baking car on a hot day, your lipo inside the remote will be negatively affected and you...
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    Phantom 3 Professional Firmware v1.6.0040

    I hope this fixes my "drifting" issue. My P3 has been flying like a drunkard ever since going to 1.4 for the "smart" features.
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    Not funny at the end.....

    Now I want to see a sequal with carbon composite props.
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    Christmas lights

    One of the video tricks is to film your "night" footage right before dusk when it's getting dark, but it's not dark yet. This way, weaker and smaller sensor cameras that can't handle darkness well can still resolve the image without grain. And later you darken it in post.
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    long term travel with quadcopter

    Not practical at all. The gimbal assembly is just too fragile. Folding in landing gear won't help you much because the gimbal is still there in the middle. On top of that, you still have to carry a pretty big controller+tablet, a giant brick of a charger, and batteries... and maybe filters...
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    Traveling to India

    You better double check the info in this thread. I read that DGCA banned drones altogether until rules are in place, which, last I checked, are not in place yet.
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    dji may replace your crashed P3 if due to battery issue

    Regardless of this issue, DJI manual says we are supposed to fly with 100% batteries. I wonder if they will still honor the warranty when someone crashes during one of their 5 quick flights on a single battery. They will obviously cover a true defect so this isn't news. And btw, when my P2...