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Tuesday ~ February 18, 2014

Posted by Dave Updegraff on February 18, 2014
Posted in: Daily Posts. Tagged: Aerial Photography, DJI Phantom, GoPro Hero 3+ Black edition, Photography.

Phantom-2 B

Happy Tuesday!  If you’ve followed this blog for awhile you remember me telling you I was working on a project that required some assembly and wiring.   Well this is what I was working on.  It is my second Phantom.  I know what you’re saying.  No there was no need for a second one but I wanted a better video camera than the Vision 2 (which has a great still camera) so this is it.

It carries a GoPro Hero 3+ Black edition video camera attached to a Zenmuse gimbal, which provides for a really stable platform.  So no matter what attitude the Phantom is in the camera stays level.  I also had to install a transmitter (that’s the white thing sticking out of the back) so that I could communicate with the camera.  It took probably a full 8 hours of work to get the thing ready to fly.  It was actually cheaper than the Vision 2 but required a lot of set up.

I know, the wiring looks terrible but that is just until I get things configured the way I want them, then I’ll tidy up the wiring.

Flying Phantom 2 vision

This is the Vision 2 Phantom (so you can see the difference.)  The vision 2 has a dedicated camera and is pretty much ready to fly out of the box.  It uses a WiFi connection with an iPhone App to provide first person view (FPV) of the actual flight.  There is no gimbal on the Vision 2 so you get a lot of distortion when there is wind (and there is always wind) and when you change direction.  It has a 14 mp camera and shoots in RAW so it captures a lot of data.

FPV Monitor

This is the FPV for the new system.  I’m having a lot of problems with it right now and I’m trying to correspond with the manufacturer about the issues.  Hopefully once that is resolved I will be able to get some HD resolution video of the flights.  The flight below is a 7.5 minute clip of the first flight with this system.  It was 22 degrees and like I said I was having a lot of problems with the monitor, not to mention it was as cold as a witch’s heart.  I couldn’t feel my fingers.  I trimmed out a lot of sitting idle from the video.  There still is a bit more than I would like but I was trying to fiddle with the monitor so I just let the Phantom hover.

I still have less than a full hour of practice with the Phantom so I have a lot to learn about controlling it and making it go where I want it to.  Jeanne assures me that warmer weather is coming and I can get in more flying time.  🙂

That’s it for today.  Thanks for checking out the blog.  Enjoy your day and be careful.

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