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Recent content by Der olle Hansen

  1. Der olle Hansen

    advice please- (with example footage)

    Rapid movements of the drone with the accompanying rapid light changes overwhelm the automatic exposure of the camera (as seen in the first seconds). In addition, the dynamic range of the lighting situation is much too high if the camera points towards the sun. Solution: Fixed exposure. But this...
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    Traffic Jazz - 2 bridges, 1 drone.

    I was on this wonderful and traditional stream in 2018. Unfortunately I didn't have a drone back then. Everywhere on the banks there are contemporary witnesses of the eventful history: from the old Hanseatic cities of medieval merchants to the architectural excesses of communism. A colorful...
  3. Der olle Hansen

    Average age of the Spark pilot

    62 and today still 1359 days to retire. The daily work from 9 to 6 is totally in the way of my many and varied leisure plans with dog, drone, kayak and backpack ... But somebody has to pay the rent and all that DJI stuff isn't cheap either ... ?
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    Sandisk sd cards

    The quality of the pictures (stills and the optical illusion of moving images) is influenced by the quality of the camera lenses, the size of the image sensor (size does matter!), the settings of the camera (aperture, shutter speed, film speed (ISO), color balance) and the quality of the video...
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    Sandisk sd cards

    In the SPARK manual DJI recommends Sandisk, Kingston, and Samsung "UHS-1" SD Cards. UHS-1 In 2010, the classification for the bus interface "UHS" (Ultra High Speed) was presented. UHS-1 is the successor to the previous Normal Speed (speed classes 2, 4 and 6) and High Speed (Speed Class 10)...
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    How to clean my Spark?

    Just got back from a little evening flight on a late summer meadow. I was too lazy to ? by ? and let DJI do the work (why else do you pay so much ? for the autonomous ? functions ... they can work that off bit by bit ... ?) but the auto-?‍✈️ landed between some reddish ? ... ? The former ...
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    Update - the riddle is solved: it had NOT been strange electromagnetic interferences that made my SPARK uncontrollable!

    So far I have overlooked this manhole cover, although I have walked over it countless times ... ;) I also took a closer look at the power line (which is not so easy at the moment with the dense summer leaves of the trees). It does not continue to run along the road, as I had previously firmly...
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    Which third party product is good enough for the SPARK's propellers?

    I finally made up my mind to buy MAS. ;) I will get them on Tuesday. Unfortunately they are not available in white, so I ordered black, because I think the red is too dark to match with the lightning sticker. But the black is shiny, it looked better on the photo in the shop than the boring matt...
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    Update - the riddle is solved: it had NOT been strange electromagnetic interferences that made my SPARK uncontrollable!

    The solution to the "riddle "is very simple: Today I flew the "dangerous route" again, this time from the other side. No problem "diving" under the barrier! But a few meters later the strange behavior wanted to start again and I landed immediately. I went flying on the open fields for a while...
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    Update - the riddle is solved: it had NOT been strange electromagnetic interferences that made my SPARK uncontrollable!

    I don't think so as I flew without any problems very often just a few hundred meters away from that spot. Here is a map of the situation:
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    Update - the riddle is solved: it had NOT been strange electromagnetic interferences that made my SPARK uncontrollable!

    Not only in the middle of the power lines, but also close to a transmission mast for cellular communications ... :eek:
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    Update - the riddle is solved: it had NOT been strange electromagnetic interferences that made my SPARK uncontrollable!

    I repeaterd the flight today in the morning in the first daylight and the behavior of the SPARK was even worse at the same spot. I flew definitely with GPS and in tripod mode, so the spark should react very slow even if I pressed the wrong button, which I did not. This time the acceleration was...
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    Update - the riddle is solved: it had NOT been strange electromagnetic interferences that made my SPARK uncontrollable!

    On my way home from flying with my DJI SPARK I tried to fly in tripod mode in the middle of the street and then below the barrier. ? But it doesn't come to that maneuver, because the drone drifts to the right towards my dog and at about 0:20 sec the SPARK accelerates independently and wants to...
  14. Der olle Hansen

    Strange behavior when switching the SPARK on

    Yesterday evening I flew my SPARK, then put the gimbal protection on it and went home, charged the batteries, done. This evening I wanted to fly again and had no camera image on the cell phone - everything just plain grey, but the gridlines were shown (I use an OTG cable between the RC and the...