Very enjoyable afternoon's flyings over in Guildford, Surrey, UK the other day. First flight slightly curtailed by some alarming gunfire from the valley below (and / or the allotments - I was never sure where it came from), but fairly convinced they weren't aiming at me, as a) I remained unhit and b) it continued for some time after I landed and was still ongoing as I walked back to the car... other excitement included 3 circling Red Kite, so I waited for those guys to depart, and a low flying helicopter appeared shortly after launch, so I altered course and descended to near tree level until that had gone...
On the second flight, up at The Mount, winds were pretty hairy, gusting up to 35 mph, but that little H remained nailed to the sky wherever I put it, and turned in another flawless flight performance. The CGO3+ also did quite well, but some of its pans while in faster motion were affected by the stronger gusts resulting in some mild juddering and speed variation, but nothing too drastic - most of it came out silky smooth...
We've got a Neewer ND8 on the go here, which seems fine, didn't break my grade this time, and got my shutter speed down to 1/125, near enough perfect for 60FPS 1080.
I sort of wish I'd done this in 4K, but I like the 60FPS for slowing stuff down by 50% in a 30FPS project.
Next time I'll try 4K downsampled to a1080 project, which 'should' be fractionally better / sharper / clearer than 1080 alone, and I'll just have to fly slower
In case anyone is wondering why I'm not just uploading 4K, it's because DaVinci Resolve under Win 7 (yes I am still stolidly using that !) won't do it until I go to Win 10.
On the second flight, up at The Mount, winds were pretty hairy, gusting up to 35 mph, but that little H remained nailed to the sky wherever I put it, and turned in another flawless flight performance. The CGO3+ also did quite well, but some of its pans while in faster motion were affected by the stronger gusts resulting in some mild juddering and speed variation, but nothing too drastic - most of it came out silky smooth...
We've got a Neewer ND8 on the go here, which seems fine, didn't break my grade this time, and got my shutter speed down to 1/125, near enough perfect for 60FPS 1080.
I sort of wish I'd done this in 4K, but I like the 60FPS for slowing stuff down by 50% in a 30FPS project.
Next time I'll try 4K downsampled to a1080 project, which 'should' be fractionally better / sharper / clearer than 1080 alone, and I'll just have to fly slower
In case anyone is wondering why I'm not just uploading 4K, it's because DaVinci Resolve under Win 7 (yes I am still stolidly using that !) won't do it until I go to Win 10.
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