It's fun stuff, that. Would not be caught without it. I use it for lots of things.
Anyway, to clarify my definitions tilt=camera up/down, and roll=horizon side to side. I don't worry about yaw for this cam.
But here's the thing, and ANYONE reading this, PLEASE NOTE!!!
I screwed up big time. I'm not sure how, but I did. I'm usually a little more attentive. But this explains things, and I only just noticed since I picked up the cameras to look at how they act when powered off to better answer the question posed regarding balancing.
Since I only labeled which cam is which with a sharpie, and left the ND filters on during the course of my last posts (balancing, then flying) I actually had my cam ID reversed.
You may write me off as a nincompoop, and yeah, I'm kicking myself, but please note: Alaska is really really big .. everything is big. So just looking at footage does not necessarily tell you what lens you have on. Only by comparing the same scene one to the other can I tell ...
Now that I think back, this DOES explain why my shots of the island were so strange to me ... sure, I was flying in disorienting mist, but I thought it weird that I could not get the whole island in the shot unless I was fairly far away.
But it certainly explains why I see jiggles, and sadly, completely reverses my report: With the putty balancing the gimbal on the roll axis, and partially on the tilt axis, and with the props balanced, flying in windy conditions, the stock lens actually jiggles more than before. But ... just balanced props and NO putty on Peau lens made jiggles really bad (when flying fast(ish) in wind. There actually may be some significant improvement due to the props balancing ... there does not seem to be jiggles when hovering, as evidenced in my shots looking down at the mist wraiths over the water (I hovered and moved very slowly for those shots, each lasting about 30 seconds or so)
I need to reset my brain. New firmware or something. I just confused the **** outa myself. In fact, now that I think back, I had the Peau lens on for the first flight on purpose for testing, but mistakenly added the putty to the stock lens.
I like the duct seal concept even better after your description. You mention the tilt axis but I'm not sure you are referencing that relative to vertical movement of the lens. If you are then I would assume the lens to be the "indicator" for a starting reference. Does it roll to the low or the high, every time, when powered down?