FC40 Videos (Sticky?)

[FatKevinSmith]

A couple videos I took this weekend. Both videos are raw (unedited) with the exception being that the first one is using YouTube's integrated warp stabilization processing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPZxsxf7K1U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK1D0NtOocY

 

[po.prune]

Hmm. Looks better quality than than the stuff I've shot. Mind you, decent light always helps. See my post viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7535

I think I must have a flaky FC40 camera.

 

[FatKevinSmith]

The camera suffers horribly when positioned normally (i.e. straight out) because any light entering the lens from above or sides will create a glare inside the lens. This washes out the image and reduces sharpness. DJI could have avoided this by including a lens hood or polarizing filter, but this is just a glorified webcam, and webcams aren't usually used outdoors.

If you create a hood for your camera out of stiff black construction paper that stick out about 1" around the top and sides, you'll cut down on most of the glare and get a much more vibrant and sharper image. Or you can do what I did and angle the camera down at a 45 degree angle, but you won't get much, if any sky

I'll be making a lens hood for my camera next weekend.