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I'm going to guess that you're not shooting at an angle where you're seeing the reflection of the sun itself in the water, but rather the sky reflection. The best polarizer in the world probably isn't going to be enough to block out a reflection of the sun. For eliminating reflections of the...

Well, if the drone pilot happens to also be an actual MS Flight Simulator nerd, then sure. But if he's just a drone pilot, and if you're trying to suggest that drone flying experience and knowledge is meaningfully useful for flying an airliner, I'm afraid we're going to have to disagree. I say...

I'm not convinced that outcomes between the two would be significantly different. The best I would expect is that the drone pilot would be a bit more familiar with the lingo being used by the guy on the ground trying to talk him down, but that's only useful if he can find the radio and get it...

I would think that a bigger problem than loosing the GPS signal would be getting multipath reflections that drone interprets as valid (but incorrect) GPS location information which could cause a flyaway issue. I'd guess you'd want to have as many satellites as possible locked in so as to reduce...

It sounds to me like his comment was borne of frustration. He's trying to drill into pilot's minds that their behavior is endangering property and lives, and perhaps a bit of hyperbole might help with that? I would turn my ire toward the pilots first before throwing the mayor under the bus.

An alternative is to mount something like a GoPro on a long pole and just carry it around. An 8-foot length of 1x2 wood with a 1/4"x20 screw on the end will serve as an extension pole in a pinch. There are all sorts of creative ways to simulate drone shots without actually using a drone.

This is the crux of the conflict. Each side trying to assert dominance and an unwillingness to be accommodating. I can't help but think that if there was a bit of cooperation instead of competition then they could both have done their thing without any problems.

I've pretty much given up on fully manual exposure for all my photography and videography, ground- or air-based. When I started in photography with film, exposure was absolutely critical. And there was no such thing as automatic exposure - you read the light level off the exposure meter and...

Digital zoom cannot exceed the resolution of the lens/sensor without loosing quality. If quality at 3X zoom is important, then you need a drone with a longer lens, like the Mavic series. It has three separate cameras with three different focal lengths.

Reading this thread I'm pretty amazed at the total agreement being expressed. It's unusual to see so many opinions in union without a single dissenting voice. That speaks very highly of the company, IMHO. Count me in with all you guys. As a Canadian, one of the things I like about ordering...

Note that the drone doesn't have to connect to the Internet every time in order to know that an update is available. The first time it connects and discovers an update it can set a flag in its internal memory, and on subsequent startups it will be aware of the pending update even if it can't...

For anyone who's looking to get into the hobby, here in Vancouver BC it looks like the retail outlets have the DJI Mini 3 Fly More Combo on sale. I saw it at London Drugs and checked on the Best Buy web site and it looks like they have it on sale as well. It may be a Canada-wide thing, or even...

Half (actually probably more than half) the stuff on Amazon isn't sold by Amazon at all, any more than stuff at a flea market is sold by the person who owns the property that the flea market is on. When you see those weird brand names like "OBSED", "NTCOCO", "MAKIMOO", etc. (real names I just...

Seagulls! (Stop It Now)

I'd consider it a small miracle to get a good, sharp exposure of even 2-3 seconds from a camera platform wafting on the breezes in the sky...