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Hey everybody -
I played around with the follow-me mode significantly for the first time this past week in Austin, and it was definitely a learning experience. I figure before I go rambling on my experience - here is my burning question of the night:
In follow-me mode, does the Solo stop moving horizontally when the height (vertical) is adjusted?
I've tried to adjust the height to go over some trees and it just stopped to adjust the height. I wanted to see if this was similar to your experience with the follow-me mode as well? I know we can adjust the height simultaneously when it's continuously moving in orbit mode...but follow-me mode seems to be different....?
My learning experience with Follow-Me Mode taught me a couple of things:
Jon
I played around with the follow-me mode significantly for the first time this past week in Austin, and it was definitely a learning experience. I figure before I go rambling on my experience - here is my burning question of the night:
In follow-me mode, does the Solo stop moving horizontally when the height (vertical) is adjusted?
I've tried to adjust the height to go over some trees and it just stopped to adjust the height. I wanted to see if this was similar to your experience with the follow-me mode as well? I know we can adjust the height simultaneously when it's continuously moving in orbit mode...but follow-me mode seems to be different....?
My learning experience with Follow-Me Mode taught me a couple of things:
- When you point the camera/solo towards you and move towards the Solo while moving, the solo does a good job with its Gimbal keeping you in the frame. I was in a car and we passed the Solo in about a minute later moving steadily at 20-25 MPH. This is kind of disappointing (single-ski water skiing goes 30-36 MPH) but hope I can figure something out.
- Whenever you traveling faster than the Solo, the gimbal will eventually have been adjusted to at 0 degrees keeping you in frame...but when you finally fall out of frame, the Solo will simply stop flying and the gimbal will return to it's preset (mine was 87 degrees) giving you a nice view where you've recently came from. It would be nice to see an option where it can follow you after you pass the Solo because those kind of shots are simply brilliant and awesome.
- When you point the camera/solo behind you, and move away from the Solo...it does a pretty good job catching up if you get too far, but the flight itself wasn't smooth when I was steadily moving at 25 MPH. It kept catching up, fall back, then catch up again. It wasn't that noticeable with some of the clips when I moved slower though.
- When I pointed the camera/Solo facing me, and I drove towards it before turning left. The Solo will not notice that you've changed direction and try to get back in front of you. It does look cool when the Solo was flying backwards, then sideways by itself...but it would have been nice if the Solo raced in front of keeping their original position of facing me....might be asking too much from Solo though =)
Jon