We had some awesome clouds over the St. Louis area on Saturday. Rain storms rolled through off and on all day. I piloted the drone up for a view of the approaching rain.
We were hit with a fairly steady downpour about a half hour after this flight. You can see how good the video stabilization is when you notice the prop guards, hence the drone, moving around quite a bit in the breeze and yet it still has a pretty steady picture.
Where’s the Arch?
They take it down during stormy weather so it doesn’t topple in the wind.
It’s about 12-15 miles from here.
Ha. Does it slide into the ground to be covered with a swimming pool like thunderbirds?
Sounds like one of Dr Evil’s lairs.
Hey Jonco, do you see the video you are taping in real time as you are shooting it? Or is it done on the blind and you review it later?
It connects to your smartphone by a WiFi connection so you so you can see exactly what’s being shot by the camera. Sometimes the sun is so bright that it’s a little hard to see though. I have a little cardboard-type shield that helps cut down the glare a bit.
All of this technology and it appears that a simple piece of cardboard is the most important part of the system.
I think Jonco’s on to something!
https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/
Not quite the same thing. LOL
That’s exactly what I was thinking about. I always have trouble on a sunny day seeing the screen on either my phone or on a digital camera. I use to have a collapsible screen shade for my digital camera, which helped a lot. They would be impracticable on a smartphone due to the size of the screen.
What model drone is that Jonco? It’s on my list of upcoming purchases.
He discussed it here… https://bitsandpieces.us/2015/05/22/zero-to-300-ftphantom2-vision-drone/
John, Look at the comments on the post Kevin linked to above. Thanks Kevin.