Nab 2013****
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Exactly, also better start to work out if want to carry Alexa whole day like this
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Bartman
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Bart are you and Shawn saying that HFP doesnt "talk to satellites" very welli liked how easily the words came out of her mouth - "you can fly it far enough to barely see it, then turn your radio off" - im scared.
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. The HF GPS works very well but the features it includes are limited to position hold and return-to-home. MK's waypoints include programmable camera and loiter functions, Arducopter does waypoints at a very affordable price (don't know how well just yet), and the NAZA has a programmable failsafe function that is a very nice-to-have feature. I still think the Hoverfly board flies the best of anything out there so it remains my first choice but as everyone catches up to HF's flying qualities, features will distinguish best bang for the buck.
Bart
hjls3
Member
yeah sorry Bart I get it. I was just poking a bit of fun at the DJI video with the future Ms Gunn.
Oh dear, where are we going?
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Which camera mount is that? Photohigher Hero?
"Christie Woods is a former Miss Teen USA winner and one half of a team (with boyfriend Colin Guinn) that came 2nd in the fifth season of The Amazing Race. Christie is the 1996 Miss Teen USA winner, the first and only one from Texas. However, she considers her biggest accomplishment in life to be working to pay her entire way through college and graduating with honours"
WOW! From reality TV star to CEO of DJI USA, what more could one want in life... :highly_amused:
Ken
*This*, is a very accurate assesment of the situation at present. Well put, too. An aside, also O/T, were you actually cited for flying at some point ???
Preorder started! 199 left, who was the first lucky?
http://www.quadrocopter.com/M212VI-MR-Pre-Order-_p_908.html
http://www.quadrocopter.com/M212VI-MR-Pre-Order-_p_908.html
destructomatt
Member
Designed as an add-on for the Phantom. They're claiming stabilization capability close to what the zenmuse has on 2 axis. Apparently the included Phantom TX has a hidden channel on the back of it which will allow pilots to control tilt. Sub $1,000 is promised. Ships in 30-60 days says the man with the toothy grin.
So I'm loading my vids to utube and head out to get a burger, come back and my puter's shut off. Power supply crapped out, battery power kicks on and drains before everything is uploaded. My cheap azz win machine is dead, none of the video got uploaded, it's all on my hd, now I've got to take the hd out and take it to the shop and get the stuff off.
My impressions of NAB beyond what I already said, nothing great, no real info on prices nor delivery. In fact, the woman I was talking to about the movi said they don't know when delivery will be because demand is so high...WTF??? I asked her how can demand be so high if it's not out in the wild yet? Long pause..."that's just how it is".
The rig that was displayed at the red booth is from a small company called Black Armored Drones out of Sweden. Nice young man, all custom cf frame and gimbal. Setup for a 2 man op and they're looking at 50K out the door ready to work. Gimbal is servo based.
Photo Higher has some new frames but again, no delivery, no prices. They did have a sweet little quad for gopro running tiny little tiger motors and it's designed to run naza but again, no price, no dates.
Dji was an interesting booth what with a 2 story office with a ping pong lounge, if you let them scan your badge you got a pingpong ball and got to challenge one of the what seemed like 20 reps to a game a ping pong for a chance to win a f330. They've got a new flight controller for the 800 along with their own fpv camera for the phantom. The odd thing was none of the normal chinese guys were out in the open preferring to let all the American guys do the sales pitch, but they were there in the background listening over shoulders-kinda creepy to be honest.
The Freefly Synapse controller wasn't shown in the actual production casing for whatever reason but it will scale all the way from a super tiny fpv quad all the way up to the cs8. One of the features that didn't make much sense but they seemed excited about was one pilot being able to fly it out or up over a building then have another pilot on another tx be able to take over control. I say it doesn't make much sense since it seems los is going to be one of the rules if we ever get regulations. They're hoping for 3rd qtr delivery.
Had a nice 20 minute talk with Jeff Scholl while he was inside flying one of the fpv mini quads, that was cool, he was a very nice man just willing to shoot the sh#t with me unlike most of the vendors this year.
One thing I realized is that anyone who thinks they're unique because they fly a multi is in for a shock at how many people are into these. Hell, I must have seen 5 guys just backpacking their chopper's around the halls with an assistant following behind with a rolling peli case, must've thought they'd break'm out and get some quick ariels for whatever reason. If there's still a price premium on ariel footage by next year I for one will be surprised.
My impressions of NAB beyond what I already said, nothing great, no real info on prices nor delivery. In fact, the woman I was talking to about the movi said they don't know when delivery will be because demand is so high...WTF??? I asked her how can demand be so high if it's not out in the wild yet? Long pause..."that's just how it is".
The rig that was displayed at the red booth is from a small company called Black Armored Drones out of Sweden. Nice young man, all custom cf frame and gimbal. Setup for a 2 man op and they're looking at 50K out the door ready to work. Gimbal is servo based.
Photo Higher has some new frames but again, no delivery, no prices. They did have a sweet little quad for gopro running tiny little tiger motors and it's designed to run naza but again, no price, no dates.
Dji was an interesting booth what with a 2 story office with a ping pong lounge, if you let them scan your badge you got a pingpong ball and got to challenge one of the what seemed like 20 reps to a game a ping pong for a chance to win a f330. They've got a new flight controller for the 800 along with their own fpv camera for the phantom. The odd thing was none of the normal chinese guys were out in the open preferring to let all the American guys do the sales pitch, but they were there in the background listening over shoulders-kinda creepy to be honest.
The Freefly Synapse controller wasn't shown in the actual production casing for whatever reason but it will scale all the way from a super tiny fpv quad all the way up to the cs8. One of the features that didn't make much sense but they seemed excited about was one pilot being able to fly it out or up over a building then have another pilot on another tx be able to take over control. I say it doesn't make much sense since it seems los is going to be one of the rules if we ever get regulations. They're hoping for 3rd qtr delivery.
Had a nice 20 minute talk with Jeff Scholl while he was inside flying one of the fpv mini quads, that was cool, he was a very nice man just willing to shoot the sh#t with me unlike most of the vendors this year.
One thing I realized is that anyone who thinks they're unique because they fly a multi is in for a shock at how many people are into these. Hell, I must have seen 5 guys just backpacking their chopper's around the halls with an assistant following behind with a rolling peli case, must've thought they'd break'm out and get some quick ariels for whatever reason. If there's still a price premium on ariel footage by next year I for one will be surprised.
ChrisViperM
Active Member
Time to throw all the crap away....and buy the new crap
http://www.dji-innovations.com/exciting-new-releases-at-nab-2013/
Chris
http://www.dji-innovations.com/exciting-new-releases-at-nab-2013/
Chris
Good Lord. Dji has run amok.
Anyway my final tools arrived today. I'm committed to the build I chose to be my first. My final resolve is to keep quiet and stay off of forums until it's all done and flown. Took six weeks to collect all the components from a dozen sources. The Dji Assistant was downloaded and registered. It's there. I opened it. Looked at it. It works. Oops. I violated my pledge to stay quiet.
But, ... The NAB convention is waay over my head. I ought not even be in this thread. Apologies.
Tomorrow the soldering starts.
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anaka
Member
Preorder started! 199 left, who was the first lucky?
http://www.quadrocopter.com/M212VI-MR-Pre-Order-_p_908.html
wow they want to sell it for 15000$ !!!
this preorder offer looks interesting...big temptation...
at the moment this looks to be the only solution cinema ready and the preorder price is less than zenmuse
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