Does Anyone Here Fly Drones??

[GO FURTHER]

Originally Posted by XB GS 351 Coupe

Here is a video entirely filmed with the DJI Spark of my daughter riding her horse in our back yard with the drone following her :

Excellent video!
(Don't know how you are keeping your videos up on YouTube with copyright music. )

I notice when you are controlling the panning motion of the drone camera to follow your daughter, the movements are not a smooth continuous panning action but more deliberate in movement "a bit at a time".

Is this a limitation of the DJI?

Do more expensive drones feature a smoother panning motion?

Thanks

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by GO FURTHER

Excellent video!
(Don't know how you are keeping your videos up on YouTube with copyright music. )

It's copy right free music you can download from youtube, so no breaches of copy right otherwise youtube will mute your videos.

Originally Posted by GO FURTHER

I notice when you are controlling the panning motion of the drone camera to follow your daughter, the movements are not a smooth continuous panning action but more deliberate in movement "a bit at a time".

Is this a limitation of the DJI?

Do more expensive drones feature a smoother panning motion?

Thanks

It's really a flying skill thing, also control software has just been updated and future videos should be a bit smoother panning as that was one of the updates. (I will be testing that out when I do my car video on the beach hopefully soon.

In saying that the more expensive the drone the easier they are to fly. The DJI spark I have has two positioning sensors and 1080 video and a two axis camera mount and 2km flight range and 15 minute flight time per battery.

The Phantom 4 pro 2.0 (the latest model) has 4K video, 3 axis camera mount, 5 sensor with automatic obstacle avoidance in all directions, and a 6 camera navigation system that constantly calculates speed and distance from objects as well as a host of other features with a range of 7km and 30 minute flight time per battery.

The Phantom 4 pro 2.0 costs $2399 while the Spark costs $629 or $859 in the fly more package

[mac_man_luke]

Originally Posted by GO FURTHER

Excellent video!
(Don't know how you are keeping your videos up on YouTube with copyright music. )

I notice when you are controlling the panning motion of the drone camera to follow your daughter, the movements are not a smooth continuous panning action but more deliberate in movement "a bit at a time".

Is this a limitation of the DJI?

Do more expensive drones feature a smoother panning motion?

Thanks

Panning is a bit of a skill, out of the box i have found the controls are way too sensitive and the smallest movement of the stick causes quite jerky motion.
Drones like the spark/mavic that have to pivot the whole drone to pan do seem a little harder to get right than something like a phantom that has a rotating gimbal