Recent content by gnomad

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    Best Place to Buy Gimbal?

    I bought a dozen or so new in the box on eBay when they were $24.95 or so. Guess it is time to list them since new are going for $125 and up. thought the same thing. B&H still has batteries for $49 as does Gens Ace so I may start buying some up to go with the 12 I have LOL. They also have...
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    Best Place to Buy Gimbal?

    I bought a dozen or so new in the box on eBay when they were $24.95 or so. Guess it is time to list them since new are going for $125 and up.
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    First Flight With The $66 Solo!

    All over eBay, I currently have 9 of them that fly like a dream. All I had to do was calibrate everyone of the customer returns since they apparently were too stupid to read the instructions. Hope they have more fun with their DJI replacements that I would bet every single one of the dropped a...
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    B&H batteries $50

    Bought 10 gimbals several months ago for anywhere from $12.95 to $29.95 on eBay in anticipatoni of future shortages. Guess I made a good investment along with all of my $49 Best Buy returns that only required a compass and IMU calibration to fly like a dream, 9 of them with controllers, props...
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    Why buy a drone and specifically a 3DR Solo?

    Yeah as long as GoPro keeps making those Hero 3+ and 4's. Oh yeah they don't and that is a damn big string attached until someone can decode the gimbal and find a way to fly a newer camera on the birds. Otherwise they will still be flying but no fpv or video as the cameras slowly fall out of...
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    3D Printed Parts

    Have you looked on thingsverse?
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    This Is Why We Don't Use 4K Superview...

    Actually 10 fps is the slowest that the eye will not see as separate frames. 8mm was 12 fps as was 16mm and still are. The world of video goes so far beyond the mediocre crap most people consider good on YouTube it is scary. Watch videos on Vimeo and compare to crap tube, it is night and day...
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    Are you flying the weapon of the future?

    L Lets see the reserve capacity of most consumer drones is a couple hundred grams at best. Yep, really worried about a flying fire cracker. More media hype
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    New Solo Owners

    You do realize that transmitters in Europe are limited to around 1/5th of the power as the U.S. ones! That would screw you big time in range or else we may all gave been screwed from the beginning which is why the wifi card upgrade makes such a large change. It could be that 3DR only made one...
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    Multiple Solos, do I have to register each one with the FAA?

    Actually the FAA is surprisingly clear if you understand plain English! Don't try to read into what they said, read what they said and they have published numerous clarifications for people that apparently were not taught proper English in their Government schools by their union tenured low...
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    Oh gawd, now I need a new computer too........

    Richnat, give you an example what I edit 4K on and it skips now and then: 5ghz octo core 32 gig RAM Dual SLI 1060 video cards Boot drive, OS, and apps running on Raided SSDs Render to 4 10000rpm Raided velociraptors Audio processed on a parallel machine running Pro-Tools All feeding. 40" UHD...
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    Question regarding Model BB11A W/ Pre-installed Gimbal

    The Autel X Pro is indeed a superior machine to DJI and their toy fleet, 3/4ths of which they just dropped (all the lower priced ones btw). The Mavic is the poster child for aliasing and moire in the videos. It is too lengthy to discuss here but to say, crap compression, up sampling, limited...
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    Can I fly it without a camera?

    ROFLMAO good joke. I defy anyone to do tick tocks, wags, inverted flight, etc. that I can do on my heli's. There is no way in hell that a Solo can do aerobatics.
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    Warranty using square trade

    They cover cameras so it could be argued you have a flying camera, but since the GoPro is attached that probably wouldn't wash in court. A Breeze or Dobie may get by with it since they are sold as flying cameras or selfie sticks
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    Interesting article from Outdoor Photographer re:drones

    You'll love the breeze. It should be called a timex, takes a licking and keeps on ticking (old ad copy for you kiddies). White elecrical tape is great to hold it together with after several crashes and you can barely see it :). Was checking my chimney on a 3 story house and a drone killing...