How do you do that

Zen Mikulski

Zen Mikulski

Member
first post and first question. New to quadcopters, kind of. Few years ago I picked up a blade quad. The one that started this craze. It was fun then it became old hat becuse of its limitations. Started getting interested again a few months ago mainly because all the advancements made since the blade. I have a extensive RC background. Planes cars helis and F1 RC gas tunnel hulls, which is my passion. My girlfriend and I talked about how cool it would be to have a camera in the sky taking pics remotely. For my birthday she bought me a Ares FPV. Very nice starter. Solid and stable. The pics look good along with the vid. But it was lacking other neat stuff. Like auto pilot, remote gimble, gps and so on. So the next purchace was the quantum nova. Nice but finding parts is a PIA. Read about the phantom line and that's what I wanted. I dint want to dump thousands into the phantom 3. But did want some of the features. Found a phantom one was a great way to see if my interest in quads continued. You can pick up a phantom one cheap brand new. So I did. What a difference. Easy and solid. . It suits my needs perfectly. Now the question. I know about the transmission and receiver end of getting pics on a screen live, but I don't understand how to physically take pics of what's on the screen. The Ares has a 5.8 rx and tx for fpv. Plug the camera into the control board and the power wire into the battery. Flip on the 5.8g led monitor and bam, live feed. Then once in the air push a button to take a pic and another to start and stop vid. All is stored on a micro card. Is there any set up sold for the phantom that resembles that?
 


SleepyC

SleepyC

www.AirHeadMedia.com
Usually with the older phantoms guys would either just shoot video, or set the GoPro to a pic every 5 seconds and let her rip.

The Phantom 3 can start and stop video, and take pics with a click of a button. Beautiful 4K shots. It really is a bargain for what it does. I HATED Phantoms and refused to buy one. I fly mainly larger rigs with larger cameras, but the features of the P3 lured me in and I now own one.
 

Zen Mikulski

Zen Mikulski

Member
Thanks for the response. I have been trying to figure that out for awhile with no success. I guess if you have a live stream from a go pro to a iPad you could snap a screen shot. I know the go pro is 2.4g and that is a bigg no no when running your aircraft on the same freq. but is there a way to use a 5.8g tx to get it to stream on a iPad or 5.8 rx?
 


MadMonkey

MadMonkey

Bane of G10
I've looked into this a lot, and short of spending $2500-3000 on a setup with a DSLR, the Phantom 2-3 is really the cheapest way to get good still photos reliably. I have a P2V+ even though (like SleepyC) I HATED Phantoms and their high ratio of idiot to sensible owners.

Now I want a 3 as well.... ugh...
 

Zen Mikulski

Zen Mikulski

Member
It just blows my mind that you can get a 299 well built quad from ares and it will take all the pics and video you can fit on a SD CARD. But of course it doesn't have the high tec features like dji products. But a 1000 dollar quad doesn't. Or you have to jump through hoops and spend more money to actually take pics. I am thinking about taking the camera off which is hd . And is also self contained with a 5.8tx and strapping it on the phantom. The ares also came with a 5.8g lcd screen. The only problem is that the buttons to take pics and vid is is on the transmitter. Easy but not as advanced as the phantom. At least I have fpv. Here is the link if anyone knows how I could rig it up lmk. http://ares-rc.com/ethosFPV/

I actually bought this this morning. It has great reviews and I heard it could be used for a app that could take pics from a for 59 bucks it's worth a try.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131261174704?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2648&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
 

hjls3

hjls3

Member
Phantom 3 you can take pics via pushing a button no prob. you'll also be streaming HD and have numerous cam adjustments - id just buy a phantom 3 and you are done.
 

C

cootertwo

Member
Zen, I see that camera only has 2 meg picture ability. If you're gonna dance, you gotta pay the fiddler. It all depends on what kind of dance you want to do. If you are looking to do the kinds of things you see on you tube, etc. your going to have to spend some mula. Heck, just a decent GoPro is around $300 to $400 bucks. A Tarot 2 axis gimble is around another $200. Gets expensive REAL quick. Then, there's lot's of reading on which frequency to use, which frequency is subject to interference from wi-fi, which frequencies interfere with your radio transmitter, on and on, into the night. I just bought my second GoPro 3+ silver.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F3F0EIU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 

Zen Mikulski

Zen Mikulski

Member
I hear you. I'm trying to cut cornors to save money and it costly. I could just imagine what you shell out with quality equipment. I did order that cgo1 and received it today. I gotta say for 56 dollars it does the job. It's sold under the eflight name. No problems. Download the app for my iPad and iPhone and clicked on the network and bang image is on the screen ready to go. Looks pretty good. Question. Can you adjust the mounting size on a brushless gimble to adapt to a non gopro with close to the same dimensions?
 


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