Drone choice for walking and riding...

[briantrumpet]

Still can't over how small it is, yet able to produce steady video in the breeze. Barely bigger than my normal camera, and lighter. Modern technology just blows me away.

 

[Time Waster]

Oh farking great!! A nice walk in the Lakes near me and you hear the drone of a drone overhead. There was someone in our village who got one a couple of years ago. Never found out who they were but we could hear it overhead a lot then later on it was flying over the promenade every night. Then it just stopped. I suspect someone took offence and the owner got discouraged from using it by someone!!

I am sorry but as fun as they are for their users, they are often seen as annoying to those who are not using them. I seriously hope the OP does not get one but that is just my POV. I would prefer them to be restricted and even a kind of filming licence needed to use one along with a flying licence. I am so against them!! But I do admit I see the pleasuree to be had from using one.

 

[T4tomo]

Still can't over how small it is, yet able to produce steady video in the breeze. Barely bigger than my normal camera, and lighter. Modern technology just blows me away.

Its certainly more modern that that carpet

You're not my late grandmother are you?

 

[briantrumpet]

Its certainly more modern that that carpet

You're not my late grandmother are you?

And the rug is more modern than the house, by a couple of hundred years. Trouble is that it's so hard-wearing it's still as good as new, 32 years later, so it stays.

 

[briantrumpet]

A quick up & down this morning at Topsham. No more than 10 minutes in the air, and at 50m height was barely audible. Quieter than the aeroplane overhead.

 

[Way-Out-West]

A quick up & down this morning at Topsham. No more than 10 minutes in the air, and at 50m height was barely audible. Quieter than the aeroplane overhead.

A successful maiden flight. The footage looks sharp enough. All ready for a sunset shoot this week.

 

[briantrumpet]

A successful maiden flight. The footage looks sharp enough. All ready for a sunset shoot this week.

That's a good idea re sunset - from that angle, it should reflect in the Exe upstream. Might give that a go later in the week. Then it will be off to France next week.

 

[BoldonLad]

A quick up & down this morning at Topsham. No more than 10 minutes in the air, and at 50m height was barely audible. Quieter than the aeroplane overhead.

That looks impressive for the price. I am temped enough to have added one to my Amazon Wish list

 

[briantrumpet]

That looks impressive for the price. I am temped enough to have added one to my Amazon Wish list

The whole caboodle is impressive, both the gear and the app. At the moment I'm just doing really really basic stuff, and the app has so far worked flawlessly, not letting me do anything without everything being connected properly, and wouldn't launch the drone until I'd moved it away from some blades of grass.... there's an auto take-off button that gets it about 1m off the ground, and an auto return that returns it to where it took off from, within inches (you can specify a 'safe return altitude' that will take it to that height from wherever it is, get it back dead over the launch spot, then bring it down vertically).

I think I'm going to go via some nice big fields by the Exe upstream on my way into a hospital appointment tomorrow, as I need to be nice and relaxed so my heart isn't jumping around too much for a CT scan. (Obviously I'm riding in, but very gently!)

 

[Way-Out-West]

The whole caboodle is impressive, both the gear and the app. At the moment I'm just doing really really basic stuff, and the app has so far worked flawlessly, not letting me do anything without everything being connected properly, and wouldn't launch the drone until I'd moved it away from some blades of grass.... there's an auto take-off button that gets it about 1m off the ground, and an auto return that returns it to where it took off from, within inches (you can specify a 'safe return altitude' that will take it to that height from wherever it is, get it back dead over the launch spot, then bring it down vertically).

I think I'm going to go via some nice big fields by the Exe upstream on my way into a hospital appointment tomorrow, as I need to be nice and relaxed so my heart isn't jumping around too much for a CT scan. (Obviously I'm riding in, but very gently!)

Wishing you well for tomorrow. Hopefully you won't need any invasive treatment or any treatment at all.

 

[BoldonLad]

The whole caboodle is impressive, both the gear and the app. At the moment I'm just doing really really basic stuff, and the app has so far worked flawlessly, not letting me do anything without everything being connected properly, and wouldn't launch the drone until I'd moved it away from some blades of grass.... there's an auto take-off button that gets it about 1m off the ground, and an auto return that returns it to where it took off from, within inches (you can specify a 'safe return altitude' that will take it to that height from wherever it is, get it back dead over the launch spot, then bring it down vertically).

I think I'm going to go via some nice big fields by the Exe upstream on my way into a hospital appointment tomorrow, as I need to be nice and relaxed so my heart isn't jumping around too much for a CT scan. (Obviously I'm riding in, but very gently!)

you are not helping my self control 😂

 

[briantrumpet]

Wishing you well for tomorrow. Hopefully you won't need any invasive treatment or any treatment at all.

Thanks WoW. Suspecting some plumbing work will be required at some stage from what's been said already - the scan is to see how much, I think. Hey ho.

 

[briantrumpet]

Right, first Drôme drone attempt. If I'd had longer I'd have tried a few other types of shot, but the ascend & 360° thing works quite well here to see the view.This was from about 25m above my hilltop spot, as there's a 50m limit for the area.



I've got a couple of ideas for here, including having a look at this local rock climbing feature as the drone ascends and for a fly-through... views I will never get otherwise.

 

[briantrumpet]

Today's effort. I did actually try flying through the gap between the rocks, to test my flying skills, but was tentative, as it can be quite a wind tunnel, and I didn't want to crash the drone quite yet. Anyway, I ended up with something passable, with the bonus of getting my house in the video. I know I need to improve my flying skills more, and get more skilled with Clipchamp, to make the presentation less amateur, but it's still quite pleasing.

 

[briantrumpet]

Still finding the panning joystick very sensitive, so more practice needed. I do like the effect of the travelling shot too, but for best effect needs to be fairly close to the ground or whatever. Might try with a river today.

Anyway, this is home.