Recent content by Jim Smith

Would this mess with things like the altitude sensor? Is there air sealed or trapped in the camera components? I guess it depends on how effective your vaccum chamber is.

This is exactly why you should save all those silica gel packets that come packaged with new electronics. I keep them in a big ziplock bag. I have amassed quite a collection. lol

It takes about an hour to do a pano of any reasonable size. The results are worth it though!

I put the drone where I want it and take a series of AEB photos. Once the drone is on the ground I dump all the photos to my iPad. I use Afinity Photo to merge the HDRs and then assemble the pano.

I would love to hear of an automated program that can capture AEB photos for a pano! It is a manual process for me.

I have been having troubles with the altimeter lately as well. Mine does not typically detect the ground and would slam into it if I were not manually controlling it. I also noticed that if I initiate a Litchi waypoint mission it now assumes it is at 0 feet altitude when it start the mission...

I found this, but have not tested anything yet... I'm a flatlander... there isnt much topography in my neighborhood....

Id love to see the video! Litchi also has some options to control altitude relative to the ground and or controller.

Affinity Photo works great for my needs.

This is about the best answer I have found....

It sounds like the same issue mentioned in this thread... Turning right or left My spark seems to have a problem similar to what you describe. I have caught mine doing it on the ground, and blamed it on the Electronic Image Stabilization. I'm curious if anyone here has noticed it happening...

Ive found lots of other reports on other forums of this same issue. I just did an IMU calibration a couple flights ago and it did not appear to have any impact on the EIS yaw. I have not yet found any reported fixes. Here is what I plan on testing tonight... If someone else has any points to...

I have seen swarms of bugs interfering with the forward facing sensor.

Last night mine was sitting on the ground and the camera image on the phone was drifting from right to left. The gimbal doesn't move on that axis and the drone was sitting on the ground. What I am seeing on my spark is definitely the Electronic Image Stabilization acting up.

I have noticed this behavior as well. I brought the drone down so I could see what was going on. The drone was perfectly still while the video feed was still drifting, leading me to blame it on a problem with the EIS.