jonhardison
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Flight distance : 93120 ft
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Jim:
A) Thank you.
B) Thank you.
C) This little gem? "This is frustrating because when you spend a lot of money you expect all your results will be superior but this isn’t the case. You will take many shots that look horrible compared to the X3, making some people feel they received defective cameras." Got my X5 two days ago and this is where I'm living now. LOL!
Don't get me wrong, I recognise the awsome sauce and splendor of the Inspire 1, and I don't know if I'm the only one that feels this way or not, but every time I open a box with DJI on it I find there are little ommisions in the sales documentation; importand things that are implied but compltely missing from the product when it shows up.
In the case of the X5 it was autofocus. I dug and dug through posts and tuts but nowhere was it ever clear that the X5 doesn't actually have autofocus. Not in the sense most have come to expect anyway. Yes. You can touch a spot of your screen and the X5 will focus on that spot, "...like you would when using your cellphone.", as DJI says, but it's NOT like your cellphone. Your cellphone autofocuses and allows you to go from its focus choice to your own with a touch of of the screen. The X5 just doesn't do anything.
A few comments above this one someone posted that you're going to need the second controller and another person to use the X5. Again, really important to know that. In fact, if I'd realized there was no "auto focus" this entire exersize might have been handled differently.
Some form of center weighted auto focus in the X5 and X5R would make it reasonably easy for a single pilot to manage the camera while flying but as that previous commenter said, I'm not under the impression my goals are realistic considering all that needs to be managed at the same time. And getting a second to deal with camera work? That's not going to be possible the vast majority of the time.
I'm wondering if anyone else in the community is having any luck at all managing the Inspire 1 and X5 alone, how and if those that are REALLY get what they want out of this combo.
I know you haven't worked with the X5 so I'm not asking you to spend another second, Jim.
Your contributions here are fantastic and very much appreciated. :-)
D) Thank you!
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