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I'm a newbie DJI owner - but thought I'd add my experience, and hope someone with more success/experience might offer some helpful advice. I'm flying Spark with a Remote Controller, using an iPad 4 mini, and have tried both an OTG cable and connection cable, and the WiFi connection. Having a lot of fun flying and gaining confidence, flying farther, faster, and enjoying the control I'm gaining. However, the advertised and impressive QuickShot "dronie" and "helix" modes are pretty frustrating. Dronie flys straight backwards, tracking the subject, but doesn't gain altitude. Helix starts tracking subject, rises, starts to circle, and then flys so far away from the subject that it loses "sight" and simply is going away - so I have to take back over flying. I was able to change the distance parameter for "helix" - but it didn't seem to make any difference. The automatic tracking of a subject seems to be working, and the "rocket" and "circle" modes seem to work fairly well. I'll probably use both of them on vacation in the Turks and Caicos - but would really like to have "helix" working. I'm impressed with the Spark and Remote Controller - and will continue using it - but it's not quite the "beginners photography platform" that I imagined - at least in it's current state. I haven't used the DJI software to edit videos to any degree, finding iMovie to be easier for me to use to edit the files. Suggestions anyone? |
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