Recent content by Kevin Cain

Good insight Jubair, what I'm trying to adapt would be a kind of 'linear structure scan' mode. In my case it's not possible to get behind most of the walls (solid stone). I was hoping to use structure scan to photograph columns, however. My sense is that structure scan always flies a circular...

Thanks Gary. In my case, I'd like to photograph a wall from top to bottom in overlapping rows. If I can edit waypoints externally, then I can quickly set up repeating camera paths from just two or three base points. For instance, if I can fly to the upper left and upper right corners of a...

It would be really useful to export/import waypoints -- and even better to convert cable cam start and stop locations into waypoints. Is either possible?

John, everything you say would work well for us and reminds me of a lot of the 'practical' options I've been thinking of in the past months. Like you I have a background in theater and film and know how much you can do with a small team who knows what they're doing. I have no doubt that if you...

Thanks, John, good points all. I've worked at various sites in Egypt and you're right -- the wind can be a mighty force. At quarry sites where we've done kite photography, that's actually a plus. For a quadcopter, not so much. In Luxor we have pretty reasonable conditions; over the years we...

Thanks Nigel, I agree that GPS will naturally drift quite a bit. Thankfully, for me the question of reported GPS accuracy is not an issue. My 3D reconstruction code (like most) doesn't require geolocation input. Instead, again like most, I compute the camera poses with multi-view stereo...

Would a GPS repeater be useful to redirect signal into the covered areas of the temple I mentioned above? Here's a photo to give a sense of the interior/exterior 'perforated' spaces we'd like to fly: Does anyone have any experience or advice with this equipment?

Out of curiosity, are those of you seeing the effects of vibration in still photos (as blur) while hovering, or is this just a probem shooting video in motion?

I'm with Matt; it would be nice if there was a better cleared path to use Solo with other cameras. So for as I can see, there's really no integrated gimbal solution for a camera other than GoPro -- or even examples of people coming up with their own working solution for mounting and moving...

It's really useful to photograph walls and columns at Egyptian temples in a fairly dense grid; we've built a custom 12m pole that allows us to do that, as seen in this picture: http://www.insightdigital.org/entry/images/ramesseum/ram6.jpg My question is whether a 3DR drone such as the Solo can...