ABeardedItalian Posted at 11-23 07:12
I swear they stole the zoom idea from me, I requested digital zoom and got the typical reply "We've forwarded your idea to our engineers for review" Well it seems like they received it loud and clear, just not on the drone I requested it for....
Zoom will be a very handy feature for me for sure, right now my work flow is remove the sdcard, upload to pc, open in mpc and use windows magnifier to review any footage in the field. When I get home I load it into vegas where I can do the picture/picture zoom effect. [view_image]https://youtu.be/Y3ZzyLrJkHI Digital zoom on the mini 1 in my opinion worked great.
...amazing work...
...was search and rescue long time ago based in Trenton...before commercial flying...
It always gives me a rush going out and find lost ones...
I volunteer and help look for lost dogs a lot and often I spend most of my time watching my flying and keeping the camera pointed down, it would be helpful to setup an automated flight path that the drone follows while I can focus more on the camera and less on where I'm flying.
Guorium Posted at 11-24 02:25
Ok so are you saying if waypoint is set you can pay more attention to the video feed and occusyn would give you better quality feed?
Yes, right now I'll fly up, get an idea of the tree line and what's a safe minimum altitude, point the camera at a 45 so I can still keep a bit of the horizon in view, flying in a gird pattern. With way-points I would plan out a mission by flying and setting the way-points (you can do it via the map as well) and while the drone is flying this way-point mission I would be manually controlling the drones Yaw and camera. This would let me focus my attention on looking for the lost subject instead of doing both intermittently.
Everyone raves about Occusync and it's better range and signal strength, way-points on the mini are limited to your controllers range. I'm saying when I step into a mini 2 I will have further range for my way-point missions so I can cover more area. Not all my flights are in the wildernesses, sometimes I'm flying in neighborhoods and the wifi mini has it's limits. Occusync would "supposedly" remove these current restrictions the mini 1 has with connection issues in urban environments,
I volunteer and help look for lost dogs a lot and often I spend most of my time watching my flying and keeping the camera pointed down, it would be helpful to setup an automated flight path that the drone follows while I can focus more on the camera and less on where I'm flying.
"I volunteer and help look for lost dogs a lot and often I spend most of my time watching my flying and keeping the camera pointed down, it would be helpful to setup an automated flight path that the drone follows while I can focus more on the camera and less on where I'm flying. "
It's really frustrating that the Mini doesn't support waypoints. I was recently asked to help search for a horse lost in the local woods. It would have been easy using my Phantom 3 Pro. I could use Litchi, or better yet the free Pix4Dcapture app. You just mark the boundary of your mapping area, and the app generates an automated flight path with a grid pattern of sufficient photo overlap to map the entire selected area. Just upload the mission to your drone, and press go!
Then you can use the awesome new Loc8 program to quickly analyse all the recorded photos. The program automatically processes all the photos, searching every pixel in each photo for a particular user-defined colour. If you know your lost person is wearing a pink shirt or an orange life-jacket the program will scan for that colour in each photo, flagging only those spots where that colour shows up.
I can no longer legally fly my Phantom unless I bend-the-knee and submit to registering, passing exams, and licensing etc. Grrrrr. In the mean time I fly my sub-250 gram Mini. But that means I cannot take advantage of the automated search grids that the Phantom is capable of.
So, when searching for the lost horse, I had to manually fly a search pattern with my Mini, the whole time with the horse's owner nervously looking over my shoulder to watch the phone display. None of that was optimal... They found the horse the following day miles away from where we searching.
See this (long) video from Gary's Drone&Sundry interview with the famous Gene Robinson.
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