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I have the metabones speedbooster for the GH4 -- excellent product that both adapts canon glass and gains a stop in the process. No auto-focus, as noted above, and that's fine for video but a pain for stills. The problem with MFT as on the GH4 is the cropped field of view. The only Canon lens I...

Panasonic and Sony are leading. I really would like to see Canon step up with something that could compete in this space. I have a ton of Canon and MFT glass, so adding Sony to the pile is not ideal. Hopefully the GH5 (or whatever Panasonic calls it) can keep up. But more than anything I wish...

In an ESC review I did a while back I used a T-Motor for comparison and actually found it to be very responsive to changes in the input PWM signal. Could the problem be too little rather than too much lag in response...

DJI innovates like nobody else. This is a very interesting concept and the built-in features like Lightbridge and now the sense and avoid capability are going to set a standard for some time.

I usually do updates / maintenance connected to a current limiting power supply. Solves the problem without having to pull props.

It all depends on how you fly. Say you have a rig that can fly for 15 minutes on its battery power. Then, by definition, you are using no more than 4C on average. Big throttle punches or the like can of course require more than the average amount of current, but ultimately you can't have flight...

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My guess is that the A2 sends an adjusted PWM value to the F1-F4 ports, so your throttle mapped to the F4 port on the A2 was producing a different endpoint than the raw throttle output on the 7008 receiver. Why odds/evens would be synced differently could be related to startup signal from the...

The problem is that the A2 is sending throttle signals that are not a function of your radio end points. So, calibrating the ESCs to the radio end points is not the right thing to do. I know everybody does it, but I have yet to hear a good reason for why they do it. Calibrating the ESCs to the...

When just about every product release is immediately followed by firmware updates one gets the impression that product is being rushed to market without sufficient testing. DJI makes some amazing stuff and I own a lot of it. But these firmware updates following product release are not a good thing.

One common problem on a new build can be motor mount screws a bit too long that contact motor windings. Or, could just be a bad motor from the manufacturer. If the ESC is working with the other motors then I wouldn't see a need to replace it too.

I wonder if the guys pushing insurance mandates have any insurance industry donors. Every once in a while this comes up for gun owners (mandatory insurance). It's just a tax by another name, intended to limit access to those who can't afford it.

There is always something that can fail. The barometer can fail too. I'm sure flyaways happen, but probably not as often as people claim.

Why would you need a kit? A little 3M double sided mounting tape would do the job.

If you really plan to fly a RED Epic, the MōVI M10 or M15 would be the obvious choice. Why bother with anything else with all of that money in the air?

Really like that throttle centered/free switch concept!

Much of this is aligning the fear with reality. Planes hit birds, sometimes with tragic results. I can't see how a Phantom is going to be more damaging than a goose. But people fear the unknown and the novel. What worries me is that there is real evil out there, and often baked into some...

I'm just now getting comfortable with the A2. I wouldn't jump on a new DJI flight controller no matter what they claimed it could do. For one thing, all of their new products seem to be immediately followed by repeated firmware upgrades with each claiming to fix whatever problems the prior...

Completely agree. But there is only so much you can do. For a long while now I've had this dystopian view of the future where technological advance implies reduction in liberty to the point of some Orwellian police state. The more technology allows one man to be a threat to many, the more the...

Really enjoying this!