You can fly the spark over bodies of water. My son lives in Hawaii, he has taken the spark to capture surfing footage. He and his friends takes turns in capturing each other while surfing.
I've fly over water many times, but my H camera was a bit nervous for some reason this particular day. All my video and pictures came out fuzzyView attachment 11512
Did you do a series of elimination? Of why it was different on this day vs other days? For photo was your settings incorrectly, same as video? A small things such as anti flicker, and even the wrong codec can throw off your video.
I've fly over water many times, but my H camera was a bit nervous for some reason this particular day. All my video and pictures came out fuzzy.
I think there's some confusion here... the bigger Yuneec Typhoon-class drones, like DJI Phantoms and above, navigate using GPS, magnetic compass and, in some cases, radar. No water issues! But the OP was referring to a Spark, which, like a Yuneec Breeze, is called a "selfie drone" -- less sophisticated navigation, which keeps the cost low. They navigate optically, with optical/infrared "eyes" on their bellies, looking downward. In order to navigate, or even hold position, they need to "see" a distinct pattern of some kind. A giant swath of unmarked pavement? No good. Add some painted stripes, and now things are better. A field of grass which stretches onward with nothing visually unique? Also a problem. And that's the reason water is a problem. Not because it's wet, or because it's electrically conductive; it's simply the fact that it's a uniform, endlessly-repeating texture, and there are no unique visual characteristics for optical, downward-looking navigation. (My two cents.)By reading all the comments it seems that only dji drones get confused over water . I only have one drone that’s not dji and it’s a Q-500 . I can’t get any range out of it so I don’t even use it anymore. I flew it about 6 times . At 600-800 feet the camera view is gone and shortly after that it loses signal and does a return to home .
Hmmm, I have tons of lake pics but never had an issue as shown above. So my guess I manually adjusted for the wrong ISO and or Shutter.I think there's some confusion here... the bigger Yuneec Typhoon-class drones, like DJI Phantoms and above, navigate using GPS, magnetic compass and, in some cases, radar. No water issues! But the OP was referring to a Spark, which, like a Yuneec Breeze, is called a "selfie drone" -- less sophisticated navigation, which keeps the cost low. They navigate optically, with optical/infrared "eyes" on their bellies, looking downward. In order to navigate, or even hold position, they need to "see" a distinct pattern of some kind. A giant swath of unmarked pavement? No good. Add some painted stripes, and now things are better. A field of grass which stretches onward with nothing visually unique? Also a problem. And that's the reason water is a problem. Not because it's wet, or because it's electrically conductive; it's simply the fact that it's a uniform, endlessly-repeating texture, and there are no unique visual characteristics for optical, downward-looking navigation. (My two cents.)
My Yuneec Breeze does seem to get very confused over water. It stops and refuses to go forward sometimes.By reading all the comments it seems that only dji drones get confused over water . I only have one drone that’s not dji and it’s a Q-500 . I can’t get any range out of it so I don’t even use it anymore. I flew it about 6 times . At 600-800 feet the camera view is gone and shortly after that it loses signal and does a return to home .