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Dear Johnny-Come-Lately 9 posts, Before you run off at the mouth understand where you are and who you are dealing with. George Mamo commands a lot of respect around here for the highly specialised product he has designed and had made against incredible odds with poor manufacturers in China...

With all this discussion about the DJI Zenmuse gimbal and the even more remarkable Cineron I need to know the state of the cameras I currently have for AP use and which of them, if any, are worth persevering with. Having purchased AD-8 specifically for its stated capacity to carry a Canon 5D and...

Unfortunately, although it does seem too restrictive I am not that surprised. Gimbal stabilization is such an involved process that communication between the gimbal and the FC IMU does not sound unreasonable if absolute camera stability is the goal. With all due respect to George and his...

Precisely. C.R.A.P. Close Range Aerial Photography (unfortunate initials those) is for small r/c aerial platforms like helicopters and MR's because they can safely access the places close to the ground that a full size cannot go for reasons of size, noise, rotorblast, unbridled public terror...

Would not surprise me in the least. I have had a near disastrous catalogue of faulty gear in the past three years. An unbelievably long list whereby virtually 90% of everything purchased has had to be returned for one reason or another. There is no reason why this tiresome tradition should not...

With the same size props a flat 8 will give more lifting power than an X8 because, by the nature of the coaxial motor arrangement, the lower prop is having to deal with air that is already moving downwards quickly. But then the X8 booms are spaced further apart so you can use larger props. Bart...

I do indeed agree. I made a point of reading as many reviews and checking as many videos as possible before getting the 5n. I really like the size, weight, cuteness etc., but I am just so unimpressed by the softness of the raw images - both photo and video. If I am doing something wrong I have...

Really? I keep hearing this but I am still waiting for mine to prove it.

What is an XY-8?

Huh?

Try again. Nothing works

I think you might find that v053 might not work because it will possibly have been removed from RotorPics and therefore will not pass the version checker when trying to install it. I may be wrong.

With off-axis mounting, such as the Tilt and Roll on an AV200, the only travel limits as far as PL is concerned are those imposed by the external pots i.e. maybe 110°. As Picloc remains stationary it suffers no ill effects. However, when it is ON-axis, as you wish to do, i.e. on the camera...

Sorry, yes the password is: cineron

Wasn't it here we were talking about long aerial takes and moving horizons and such? Has anyone seen this remarkable bit of work? and then ... just to illustrate how we have all been pissing into the wind, have a gander at this:

Yes to everything. The E-Mount lens choice is virtually non-existant and the only 'good' one, the unreasonably priced Zeiss, is not a suitable focal length. I have umm'd and ahh'd about being totally irresponsible and buying an FS100 but the same lens mount with the same crappy NEX lens rather...

I do not find the HDC colour over saturated but it does have a bit of a blue cast. But then this is really only apparent in side by side tests with another camera. I once did a four camera test with a Panasonic HPX171, the Canon 5Dmk2, the HDC-SD9 and a GoPro. It was a sunny summer day in the...

Good. Thanks for that. The 'soft' comments were not so much a criticism as an acknowledgement of what I detect in the resolution of images produced by the 5n. I have an HDC-SD9 3ccd Panasonic that also looks a bit soft but have been considering stopping the whole video-enabled-stills-camera...

Was this with the abused NEX-5n? Because, aside from the YouTube and compression blotches, this has the same 'a-bit-soft-and-not-quite-HD' feel to it that I see with my NEX-5n with the 18-55 kit zoom. Trees are represented with a sort of soft fuzz, rather than a tight bunch of tiny branches and...

The old Picloc TRv3's used to work great on the bench (this is on the big heli) but once the motor was started and began increasing speed the Tilt axis would pitch forward. I put this squarely down to vibration. As rpm approached lift-off speed the PL would tilt back to almost level again. The...