New Toy and Heat wave.

On May 31, 2020, Whisky-dave wrote
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On Friday, 29 May 2020 03:20:00 UTC+1, Savageduck wrote:
On May 28, 2020, Whisky-dave wrote
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On Friday, 29 May 2020 02:26:03 UTC+1, Savageduck wrote:
On May 28, 2020, Ken Hart wrote

That is OK, my drone/video skills are barely 3 days old.


What is all that open land? When I see that much rolling hills, I expect
to see cattle. Or at least cow patties!

The some of the ranches around have cattle, but around here once the winter grass starts to dry out we get a pretty big flock of sheep through here. That feeds the sheep, and mows the grass before the fire season.

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-ZhLtrh7/0/33210a7d/5K/i-ZhLtrh7-5K.jpg

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-HqgPhTP/0/2d49a628/5K/i-HqgPhTP-5K.jpg



FWIW, and obviously not your fault, Firefox (Linux) continuously
buffered and never played the video. Chromium played a few seconds,
buffered a few seconds, played a few seconds. But then again, I've got
several live streams running on a no-frills DSL link.

I am not able to address things Linux as I have an all Apple household.

No problem on my iMac in firefox :-)

Perhaps, but I have never explored Linux, and I am probably not going to. My Mac does all I need it to do.

Pretty impressive and didn't seem to scare the sheep with it's noise the only cheap ones I've seen/heard are really loud.

Well the sheep have been gone for a while so they were not there for these flights. This Mavic Air 2 is surprisingly quiet. Once it is about 20-25 ft. above me it is difficult to hear.

Can you get it to 'imprint' altitude and NSEW direction on videos or stills.

I have not found a way to do that with a direct recording yet. However, I am sure I could tap into the iPhone, or iPad screen recording capability to record all the controller details.

Can you program a route and leave it to do it, like a search pattern in star trek :-)

There are several tracking functions including following a waypoint flight path.

can it say follow you in your car at X distance and altitude, that could be fun filming yourself doing doughnuts or whatever if you're so inclined that is.

It can, not that that sort of thing is on my agenda, but others have done vehicle tracking with this and other drones.

Cheers, I noticed in the demo they had it in front of a bike, was wondering whether that implied it could be done or whether someone else was controlling it.

There are several tracking modes which make the drone autonomous for the entire track program. Select your target, and tracking from behind, parallel, or circle the target while tracking.

See what this guy does:https://youtu.be/zleTBf4At8s

I doubt you have any whales nearby you can fly over, I wonder if you could
so fish or shoals of them in clean rivers.

We have California Grey whales which migrate up and down our coast, sometimes quite close inshore.

I might be able to get fish at our lake.

They don't seem to have a polarizing filter, probably difficult to have one
as they'd be no way of rotating it.

Actually they do have CPLs, and ND filters with CPL.

https://www.freewellgear.com/mavic-air-2/693-dji-mavic-air-2-filters-standard-day-4pack.html




Regards,
Savageduck

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On 2020-05-28 21:55, Whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 29 May 2020 02:26:03 UTC+1, Savageduck wrote:
On May 28, 2020, Ken Hart wrote

That is OK, my drone/video skills are barely 3 days old.


What is all that open land? When I see that much rolling hills, I expect
to see cattle. Or at least cow patties!

The some of the ranches around have cattle, but around here once the winter grass starts to dry out we get a pretty big flock of sheep through here. That feeds the sheep, and mows the grass before the fire season.

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-ZhLtrh7/0/33210a7d/5K/i-ZhLtrh7-5K.jpg

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-HqgPhTP/0/2d49a628/5K/i-HqgPhTP-5K.jpg



FWIW, and obviously not your fault, Firefox (Linux) continuously
buffered and never played the video. Chromium played a few seconds,
buffered a few seconds, played a few seconds. But then again, I've got
several live streams running on a no-frills DSL link.

I am not able to address things Linux as I have an all Apple household.


No problem on my iMac in firefox :-)

Pretty impressive and didn't seem to scare the sheep with it's noise the only cheap ones I've seen/heard are really loud.

I've flown within 5 metres of deer and they just look at it curiously
and then ignore it. It's not in their catalog of dangerous things.


Can you get it to 'imprint' altitude and NSEW direction on videos or stills.

You can do that various ways - but better to post process to a non
imprinted and imprinted versions.


Can you program a route and leave it to do it, like a search pattern in star trek :-)

There are 3rd party apps to do various things like that. DJI's app
allows a repeated course.


can it say follow you in your car at X distance and altitude, that could be fun filming yourself doing doughnuts or whatever if you're so inclined that is.

It will use video tracking to follow a car (or person or person on bike...).

I've even had one drone following another (this is a little unstable and
could result in collision in some conditions even if they start well
appart).