Me too, half a mile away is fine with me. No desire to drop my Phantom on somebody's head.
OR wreck it. Some guy from New Jersey posted a video of him flying right through the middle of the fireworks. It looked spectacular, but he obviously didn't care about his costly drone getting hit with an exploding rocket.
Personally, I don't have an extra $500 laying around to buy a new Phantom!
By the way, I have a chart that shows how high various shells fly. If you are flying at 400 feet, only the 2, 3 and 4 inch shells will explode at or below 400 feet. The shells go all the way to 12 inches which explode at 1200 feet, so it looks like your idea of setting the gimbal to go the extra 30 degrees upward, is a good one. I am going to do that myself.
Another pilot said that settings for video should be ISO 400 - 800 and shutter speed should be 1/30 for NTSC (that's us right?)
A lot of stuff to take in! Good luck, Ray
Thanks Ray
I did some night shooting the other night and shot 4K at 1600 iso and they looked pretty good. I'm gonna start at 800 tonight and see what happens. We only get one shot at this!...LOL
Good luck Kelsei...too. Post what you end up with. Worst case is we learn something from all this.
Flashlight..Remember a flashlight........Yea, I'll forget.