Re: school me on drones

Posted by paul on September 05, 2020 at 12:08:55 from (76.77.197.114):

In Reply to: school me on drones posted by glennster on September 05, 2020 at 05:54:50:

There is a love hate relationship with DJI drones. They are the top notch drones, but they sometimes lack customer service, or should I say concern about customers.

If you spend about $1200 you will get a top notch that will do everything you want. Like a Mavic Pro. They have a good battery life, can fly far distances, have great camera.

I could easily check out 500 acres on a flight, with a little time to circle around and examine a thing or two extra. Can fly a mile away as well - farther really, but how much do you want to push it.....

You can see what you are flying over live, as well as recording it. I find while I’m flying I don’t have time to see much detail, I’m busy flying. And the sun reflections on the screen, the small screen you are looking at... better to put the video on a computer screen or tv screen and examine it closely back in the house. You can set up headsets or fancy shrouds and special screens to get past the sun glare out in the open, but......as well most of the time you are seeing a lower resolution live picture than what it is actually recording to a card.

The $400 drones can serve you well, but they have shorter fight times, much shorter distances you can fly away from the controller, and not quite as good a camera. It’s a trade off. I’m not knocking them, just saying that is what you will give up.

For fun to put on YouTube, those cheaper drones work well. The video is always cut back to smaller files anyhow for YouTube!

If you really want to see detail in your fields, you want good camera, high detail. You have no idea how good a detail those cameras can get, we can’t possibly post as clear a video as they internet’ allows us on normal social media places. You know how pictures are degraded to make smaller file, same with video.... my drone will take 4K video, only one of my computers will even handle that resolution, but it’s awesome to see!

If you want to cover quite a few acres in the neighborhood, you want a longer flight time and be able to fly farther away from you.

So, just mentioning the trade offs.

Paul

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