It's a cracking drone. Very confident in its ability. I also done the A2CofC, very worthwhile.
Thanks for that, I am excited...and as I am a manager at an airport I don't want to do anything which could get me in any bother
I am just awaiting delivery of my new Mavic Air 2 drone with Fly More package. I have done my Flyer and operator ID already, and have started the A2 COC course too. I am hoping to have some fun with this, and also capture some fun footage of out working cocker puppy we will be picking up in 6 weeks I jumped in with the drone without fully researching things, and am a bit disappointed that these are going to be legacy drones and falling into A3 category unless the CAA allow retrospective compliance into the C2 category. Hopefully I will be able to add some footage here in the coming weeks.
I've not bothered with the 48mp mode. I am going to give the manual settings a go next weekend if I get a good day to fly. I am hoping to get some good shots / videos of the Humber Bridge.There's a bit to get used too. Plenty of photo and video modes as well as settings.
I don't see any benefit of the 48mp mode, as it doesn't seem to give any more detail.
I ran around the field like an eejit to test out the tracking modes when I first got it, they work pretty well.
Like anything, practice is key. I hand land it but it took me a fair few attempts to build the confidence for that, but I always take my landing pad for windy days.
I've not bothered with the 48mp mode. I am going to give the manual settings a go next weekend if I get a good day to fly. I am hoping to get some good shots / videos of the Humber Bridge.
Lovely natural colours and what an interesting subject.
Lovely natural colours and what an interesting subject.
Try to avoid obvious 'drone-like' moves, plan simple, smooth steady movements like rising slowly up or tracking forwards/sideways *slowly*
Gently arcing around is always a good move, and it will do that for you most likely - but it's nice to master manually.
A minimal number of very controlled shots with no jerks is much more effective even if the total run time is halved.
Here's a video of my third outing (filming). Trying to fly and turn more smoothly.
Hoping to get to use it again soon... testing the batteries this weekend.
Abandoned brick works.
Try a standard 4:3 ratio, see how that fares. 975kb and still too large??? What on earth does the system require? I really don't understand this resizing lark - why do we buy cameras with the capability of producing 50MB file size images, filling up massive hard drives, renting massive amounts of space on some server in the sky and then throw 90% of the picture away so it can be seen on here? Crazy!
I think the only way you will be able to get things on here is to upload them to a hosting service. You can get a free Flickr account which is limited to a number of uploads. There are probably others out there for free, but I now pay for Flickr just for the ease of uploading things without the worry of being restricted.Having played with the AIR for a year now I took the opportunity to get a Pro2 on Saturday. I flew it for the first time today, having studied the various features and found my settings - it was only 25 minutes old, came with tablet holder, tablet and a whole host of extras.... at a price I jumped at. The guy selling had crashed his first one into a tree, this was the replacement, but basically he had lost his nerve. All I can say is WOW. I use a compact camera for some jobs and the D4s for others. I can compare the AIR to the compact and the Pro2 is the D4s, the difference is that stark. I shot one frame as standard 35mm format, and then shot a panorama, just of my town as something to practice with. The panorama is 830MB - it produced a 66.5MB jpeg! Even the internally stitched panorama is 18MB jpeg. I am stunned by the capability of this thing and it flies so stable and assured. The problem now is, how do I size anything for on here, I don't think the system will like pictures of that kind of size. The detail is incredible though.
Definitely. I’m new to drones and didn’t realise DJI were like Apple!@Lensflare should have gotten the new air2s. Same camera as the 2pro but in a smaller package and higher resolution video, longer range, better battery life.
Dji have really screwed us 2pro owners up, they are pretty much redundant now unless you desperately need a variable aperture.
Can't believe the air2s isn't CE marked though. Surely dji have made a huge mistake there. Everyone with A2CofC would have bought it if it was.
any recommendations for nd filters for mavic pro?
Polar pro are the go to brand. I use them on my mavic 2 pro.. not cheap mind, but they are colour neutral.
@Lensflare should have gotten the new air2s. Same camera as the 2pro but in a smaller package and higher resolution video, longer range, better battery life.
Dji have really screwed us 2pro owners up, they are pretty much redundant now unless you desperately need a variable aperture.
Can't believe the air2s isn't CE marked though. Surely dji have made a huge mistake there. Everyone with A2CofC would have bought it if it was.