Sunday 1 April 2018

New Drone, Old drone... Do I buy the current new existing Drones or wait for a unknown next generation drone...?


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https://www.tumblr.com/blog/dronepatrol123You know that saying "New is always better"?... It can be true for most things, but can it be said for drones???...
https://vimeo.com/channels/cleethorpesdronefilmclubI am at the cross roads whether to join the mavic air club and buy the drone that can do the tiny planet movies or buy an inspire 2 to give me the automatic features of intelligent flight modes within the inspire 2 platform...
http://click.dji.com/AFnmRCSa7a3ZKvPDNA…I did read the that the new features are a lot better then the old drone but I also read the down side of these drones... Hearing the wonky red rotor on the inspire 2 and low battery flight times of the mavic air...
No doubt you might have friends who have a drone, giving you a opinion on what you should look out for and buy...
I've been procrastinating for a long time, But its now almost around the time that DJI are going to roll out a new drone... ( if you listen to rumors)
https://www.facebook.com/stongtiumdog/videos/2043261789275281/
Most of these rumors are just click bait, drawing you into view their crappy sketches of what
someone thinks is a drone...
And yet its fun to imagine if DJI has improved the drone by listening to what people are asking for...
https://youtu.be/lcB0G50ZtVoThe old inspire was (is) a good drone but DJI did respond to customers requests and added a second camera for the pilot, allowing for true 2 man operation... As well as other things mostly a faster speed and intelligent flight modes...
http://3dinsider.com/inspire-3/
http://click.dji.com/AK8MyhdtCInP3RY00eci…The way I see it, intelligent flight modes and extra sensors to avoid crashing into things, seem to grab peoples attention... A fool proof drone is near enough becoming a reality as visual collision avoidance are starting to appear on the latest DJI drones...
First in the front for obvious reasons as the majority of flights is in the forward position... But in the case of the Phantom drone, the 4th version of the drone series... The phantom now has sensors on the front and back as well as two infra red sensors on the side... This may well improve the drones usability as pilots with limited skills are going to push their luck trying to fly in areas that are too difficult to fly in...
No Doubt I believe the next generation of drone will try to have collision avoidance sensors around the drone front and back as well as side to side and top and bottom of the craft...

https://vimeo.com/219217918
In the case of the inspire 2 the two battery configuration gives a better form of security because of the unlikely time of battery failure, the drone will have a back up to keep it aloft... Although flying my inspire 1 countless of times, has never failed to perform...
This safety feature hasn't turned my resolve but instead the new line up of cameras made especially for the inspire has certainly caught my attention...

https://www.dji.com/zenmuse-x5s/info
My recent love affair with higher frame rates has me wondering about the Phantom 4 pro and the Inspire 2, both drones are capable of delivering 4K at 60 FPS... But since I had my X5 camera the use of inter-changeable lenses seems like it shouldn't be a option at all. Given a choice with a camera with a fixed lens system, or a interchangeable micro 4/thirds system that seems perfect for drones... I would choose the 4/thirds system all the time...
The inspire 2 with the X5S camera would be just as good as my current inspire pro set-up if not better... Because of the option to record raw uncompressed video is likely to remove the annoying Red Tint on sunny days... As my current X5 camera has no apparent cure for the color shift caused by lack of infra red filters in the old camera...

And finally the new new X7 camera with its 35mm sensor and fancy carbon fiber light weight Prime lenses boarding on Higher quality RED epic camera territory, has me foaming at the mouth...
https://youtu.be/0BterbOfOgg
The current playlist or tame landscape video using the old cinematic 24 or 30 FPS is ok for the videographer who like their action a little bit slow and lame...
But currently on you-tube there isn't really any inspire 2 high action shots that has really impressed me... Also competing action-shots with a racing 250 drone armed with a 4k stabilized action camera are more of my type of action footage... The dream is to use a X7 camera on a surfing video with a resolution of 4K at 60FPS and try to get in as tight as I can safely go using a inspire or similar for the perfect marriage of precision flying and great action...
My current situation is to film with the Mavic pro in 1080P @ 60FPS, which does a really good job... But as always with me, I like to evolve and produce videos that improve with every passing session so that it doesn't become  stale...
https://www.dji.com/zenmuse-x7/info
In the end what it comes down to it this year is, do I order a existing drone or wait for the new yet unknown drone around the corner?...
Ok at this point already someone will have a clever answer saying there's always a new and improved drone around the corner... In that case Then I have to invoke my own Apple buying protocols... in which for the past few years I reluctantly buy the iphone but only the odd numbers , for example the iphone, the iphone 3, the iphone 5 and the iphone 7+...
This way I skip buying annually and hopefully catch the drone on the next round... or until I get bored of drones and cancel my subscription of "old dude with expensive drone yearly"
In the end, I am thinking I should wait and hopefully have the Video format I've always wanted with the extra features and maybe  be the envy of my flying friends for a brief few minuets...






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