Recent content by skyeboysteve

If you want to film something that looks as majestic as the Grand Canyon itself and in some ways better (less haze) go to Dead Horse Point state park in Utah—on the same Colorado river that carved the Grand Canyon downstream. The park is open to drone flying in the winter. This was the place...

Does anyone have any experience with the new Lume Cube's anti-collision lights compared to the brightness of the Firehouse ARC lights? They seem bulkier than the Firehouse / Strobon lights; though perhaps maybe more "aerodynamic" if that's really a concern for most flights under 40mph.

I think this issue can simply be explained by the fact that the camera is not facing forward. In the case of the video posted by the OP, the camera is pointed slightly to the right, so when the pilot pushes the stick forward it appears to drift to the left. This happens all the time on my P4P...

I've used two Lume Cubes in the past for my old P3P.. I also tested them to 5 miles at night--flashing them from a bridge with street lights while my dad drove to the top of a hill 5 miles away to look. However one would overheat and shut-off at around 10 minutes. I sent it back and they sent...

Works great on my laptop. I'm amazed at the smoothness of the frame rate and with the amazing graphics. I have an I7-6700HQ Quad Core with 32GB or RAM and Geforce 1070. A vendor on Facebook told me that there is no pricing yet; as the "enterprise" and "custom" modules are still in...

I wouldn't bother with colored lights--I used to use them (red on left, green on right); but they're not nearly as bright as white; and quite honestly at a distance the white strobe would outshine the other lights anyway; unless it was directly sideways to you. But unlike most aircraft...

I think the biggest advantage the Mavic 2 Pro has over the P4P's camera is that it shoots 10-bit video (assuming it's h265 codec is up to par and not just another marketing gimmick like the P4P's 4K-60 with not enough bit-rate). 10-bit video is a BIG deal! You can actually color grade with...

I’ve always thought these sightings by pilots had to be somewhat bogus—especially in a 757 on short final at over 120 knots—there’s little chance you’d ever spot something the size of a P4P. This was confirmed a little over a month ago when I filmed some bush pilots (at their invitation) going...

Ah yes... you're right! Ugh--I'm losing my memory... I have ordered Cree's from you before--forgot that I had got the ones I described from them on Amazon.... Thanks for jogging my memory!

I had one that had white, green and red LEDs on one unit--that flashed at separate times that I used for the top of my drone. However, they weren't as bright as the others--and the red light stopped working. So I'm wanting to replace it with one like the others I use--with FOUR white LEDs per...

I'm referring to both; as digital zooming is nothing more than cropping an image and then scaling that cropped area to fit the frame. In theory of course is if you crop to the same size as the frame you plan to render at; you don't loose any pixels--thus "lossless"--a term some people in this...

Has anyone noticed though that when "digitally zooming" from 4K to 1080, that the quality seems very degraded even when viewing on a 1080P screen and a 1080 output file? I normally render all my edited videos in 4K; and occasionally crop down to 1080 for a few seconds of effect where detail...

Does anyone know how soon we can start taking the test to renew; or is that TBA?

I've tried changing gimble pitch speed and gimble pitch smoothness; but it doesn't seem to make any difference for me--not that I'd expect it for a yaw issue. What gimble setting are you referring to? I did notice that there is a little yaw drift in the gimble after I rotate the drone on the...

Conversely does anyone use polarized sunglasses to see their tablet screens BETTER when outdoors? I’ve been thinking about getting polarized clip-ons (with hope that they’re polarized for allowing light from an iPad Pro in landscape).