Well I agree. Just like the majority of S800 suckers I do not like it, I do not trust it, and it has one damn problem after another - airframe and WKM. Produces excellent video with the Zenmuse though, but I just don't trust the bloody thing.
On the other hand, my Droidworx AD-8 HLE with MK stack (still on FW 0.88) is a trooper. As you say, I know what to expect every time, I have full confidence in it and it has never done anything weird. It weighs less, takes user friendly 4S battery packs and is stable and predictable. The minus point is the AV200/3X camera mount. Not exactly rubbish but pretty poor.
I dream wistfully of Mr. DJI tripping over and breaking his sodding yellow neck.
I received a spam email from DJI about their worldwide video contest which I was giving a quick thought to entering when I noticed it's only open to S800/WKM/Z15 owners. I guess it wouldn't look too good for them if someone with a WKM powered Cinestar or Skyjib with Alexmos brushless gimbal bested the top dog offerings from DJI so restricting it to totally DJI platforms makes sense, for them anyway...
I'll be loading the latest .90 firmware on my brushless gimbal equipped MK Hexa as soon as this little gem arrives...
https://www.mikrocontroller.com/ind...id=773&zenid=4e085640356967cba45200a3e4be2a35 I have two of them currently somewhere between a Boston cargo facility and my house, tracking says out for delivery though it's starting to get late in the day for that to happen. Fingers crossed it gets here today, I'd really like to be able to test it out tomorrow and it shouldn't take more than an hour to install/update/test fly.
If this works as well as it claims to I may well be going back over to MK on the Cinestar, one of my biggest issues with MK on a platform that large is it's d**m near impossible to hold a constant altitude in our windy New England weather. What MK doesn't do on the CS is that annoying yaw twitch that the WKM does and I've never been able to fully tune out of it regardless of the settings used. There is something to be said for having a lot of parameters that can be changed to fine tune the flight characteristics (ala MKtool) as I've been finding out lately playing around with MultiWii boards of various configurations. Applying that knowledge to MK makes it far easier to get the MK to do what you want without having to resort to a Germanglish Google translation of the Wiki to get the full gist of what the functions do.
I really like the ease of use and stability of the advanced features in the DJI stuff but I do wish there was an advanced tuning mode available for people that want to be able to fine tune it to work with whatever platform they want to use it on although I suppose doing that would eat into S800 sales so it's likely we'll never see it.
I've been having great success with the little MK Hexa and RCTimer brushless gimbal, still have a little work to do but I've never been able to get this level of quality from raw video with any servo driven gimbal even with the remaining bugs that need to be worked out on the brushless setup. Once I have this one fully dialed in to where I want it I'll turn my attention to the big Cinestar with Nex 5n carrying brushless gimbal, would be nice to be able to set it up with the spare MK stack while I'm at it.
Here's the Hexa V1 with GoPro brushless gimbal in action last weekend...
Ken