Recent content by Wind_of_Change

YoshiK1, Sorry I didn't respond to your last post. I took off last Monday to spend a week testing and evaluating the Mavic Air. I got to my shoot location and spent a few hours working with it, but then got a call that my father had passed away. So unfortunately I had to abandon the shoot...

Well, the verdict is in for me. This little drone is a pretty amazing piece of tech, but the grain noise levels are high even in good lighting, the focus is soft, the color is a bit off, and it just doesn't compare to the P4Pro. The problem for me is that I'm completely spoiled by the P4Pro...

Mm, that's a tough one. If I had to choose between the Air and P4P, the Phantom would win hands down in my mind. That drone is a super-star IMO. Maybe the Air will win me over with it's convenience though, who knows. I have some tough choices coming up with several international trips where...

YoshiK1, Wow, two new drones within two weeks? Nice! I wish I could afford the Inspire 2 with the X7 camera, that's a dream setup. But alas, I just can't justify it yet. Hopefully this little Air satisfies my drone cravings, cuz the P4P is just too bulky to carry everywhere I want to fly...

P4P. Thanks! The full res image is gob-smacking beautiful. I love that drone. Can't wait for the P5P. My Mavic Air has arrived, and it is in a whole new league from a design standpoint. Up til now the only really elegant drone DJI has designed is the Inspire. But this Air is truly...

My Air should arrive today. One of the things I'm super excited about is the on-drone stitching of 36 megapixel panoramic images. That link that YoshiK1 posted a few pages back with that panorama of the glacier is actually AMAZING for a drone like this. I kid you not, I sat staring at that...

Strike Force... I drove through Escalante last week and plan on going back with my P4P. This week was San Rafael & Goblin. Loving the drone itself. My P4pro flies great on litchi, but the DJI Go 4 app crashed every flight. Really buggy software. A lot of Android users are dealing with the...

Steve, I haven't tried any slow motion stuff. I just had a local American Indian come and visit with me. He was on horseback, and he had three herd dogs with him. He was trying to locate a lost bull. It would have been cool to film him at high frame rate racing across the desert, but I...

Steve, I'm in Utah, which is a great state for aerial filming. While we have some of the best National Parks, they are off limits for drones. But we have plenty of open BLM land that's currently okay for flying. You are way more high tech than me! I don't trust the automated systems, I'm...

SteveP55, Well I'm impressed that you're tackling the new tech, you're not really an old-timer yet, but kudos for getting into the field, a lot of folks your age would be unwilling to learn all this new gadgetry. It is expensive for sure, but when you stop to look at what you're getting for...

I gave up on the DJI Go App and installed Litchi. I got a dozen successful flights with no problems, then tonight had a disconnect about 2 minutes into a flight. It would NOT reconnect to the drone after restarting the software, so I had to fly it back and land and restart controller, drone...

This one was also shot about half hour after sunset on an overcast day. This was on my second day of shooting. It almost looks like a mid-day shot. It's a photographer's dream, really.

This is my very first photo with the drone on my first actual flight, and it was shot on a severely overcast evening about half an hour after sunset, I mean I was SHOCKED that it picked up anything at all, let alone something this detailed. It was only a test flight, just so I could familiarize...

You certainly won't get an argument from me about the quality of photographs for straight forward photography. The distortions are only an issue for photogrammetry work, which I do a lot. I didn't mean to give the wrong impression. I've only had it for a few weeks, and already I'm really...

Well the weather should be good tomorrow. I'll get out and spend some time learning Litchi. Hopefully I will have better results and I can finally start enjoying this drone. Thanks for all the input guys, I greatly appreciate it!