GneeChee said:
Ahh, very cool. I've officially been schooled on 3rd-axis-follow-yaw-magical-voodoo-now-my-brain-hurts stuff.
And that vid is what I was imagining would happen after I read your explanation. Good info.
It's amazing what I'm learning here. My initial intent was to fly the cool, neato, boss, 4 prop helicoptor thing and make it go zoom zoom zoom thru the air. Now look at me ... 2 weeks ago I didn't know what fish-eye was - now I can correct it ... and next I'm going to learn how to solder! LOL
This is more than just a hobby. This should count for Continuing Education credits
Glad ya dug my video!
it's a common question when people ask about the legs getting into the picture and such.
advanced copters with retracts and more channels have the ability to manually rotate the camera as well,
.but if you're flying FPV using the main camera it would be a bit disorienting as well.
so essentially, you either want to have it set to Yaw Follow, which works great for 90% of the people,
Or have it set up on a hex or octo copter, where one guy is flying FPV thru a small forward facing camera (or line of sight), and another is operating the camera remotely! - but that's pretty hardcore.
Yah, like many of us, you see a Phantom with GoPro and figure it'd be fun to shoot video.
.. THEN when you see the results and start learning more, it's like a drug where you want to get more and produce better results
-getting gimbals, new transmitters, FPV, balanced props, motors.. there's a TON to learn.
as per the 3 axis gimbals, .they do weigh a bit more, but the results are dope. (no yaw-wobble), I highly recommend for larger quads or Phantom 2's.. flight times on a Phantom 1 are reduced down to under 5 minutes, which is pushing it a little bit.