Hi Everyone,
I had my first Phantom flight today in my new P2V+. I am pretty excited. It has been 4 weeks since I was given the Phantom and I wanted to make sure I was ready. Everything went quite well (it was awesome!!) but it generated a bunch of questions that I hope some of you can help me with.
1. I have the new version of the remote controller with the knurled knob in the upper left to control the up/down tilt of the gimbal. During flight when I rotated to turn the camera downwards, it immediately came back up to level when I let go of the knob. Is this normal? If not, what am I doing wrong. If it is normal, then how do I fly with a small downward tilt of the camera?
2. The up/down gimbal control on the DJI Vision App does NOT seem to do anything? Is this because I have the control on the remote controller?
3. Can you recommend some good camera settings to start out? I am not very familiar with video photography so wonder what these settings, formats, etc should typically be set at for recreational and amateur work.?
3a. Is iMovie a reasonable software to use for simple video editing? Or?
4. Should I be recalibrating the compass after each battery change?
5. There seem to be 2 different movement techniques being shown for compass calibration. One involves rotating the phantom hand over hand. The other involve simply holding the phantom horizontally and turning your whole body 360 degrees. then holding the phantom pointing downward and again turning your body around. Are these both equally acceptable?
Thanks
Larry
I had my first Phantom flight today in my new P2V+. I am pretty excited. It has been 4 weeks since I was given the Phantom and I wanted to make sure I was ready. Everything went quite well (it was awesome!!) but it generated a bunch of questions that I hope some of you can help me with.
1. I have the new version of the remote controller with the knurled knob in the upper left to control the up/down tilt of the gimbal. During flight when I rotated to turn the camera downwards, it immediately came back up to level when I let go of the knob. Is this normal? If not, what am I doing wrong. If it is normal, then how do I fly with a small downward tilt of the camera?
2. The up/down gimbal control on the DJI Vision App does NOT seem to do anything? Is this because I have the control on the remote controller?
3. Can you recommend some good camera settings to start out? I am not very familiar with video photography so wonder what these settings, formats, etc should typically be set at for recreational and amateur work.?
3a. Is iMovie a reasonable software to use for simple video editing? Or?
4. Should I be recalibrating the compass after each battery change?
5. There seem to be 2 different movement techniques being shown for compass calibration. One involves rotating the phantom hand over hand. The other involve simply holding the phantom horizontally and turning your whole body 360 degrees. then holding the phantom pointing downward and again turning your body around. Are these both equally acceptable?
Thanks
Larry