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OK, next newbie question/discussion topic: overcoming sun glare on ST16S monitor.
Now that I'm starting to use the H+ for its intended purpose - flying camera platform - I'm forced into the need to spend some time staring at the ST16S monitor rather than just dong VLOS flying. I find that even with the sun shield and the brightness of the ST16S screen that I still have some difficulty seeing the image on the ST screen. Part of this may be due to what I am hopeful is a short-term vision issue, but I don't think that the issue is totally my personal one.
My fundamental question for experienced drone videographers is what method is most typically used to obtain decent composition while filming? Is the screen sufficient for most? I purchased the Yuneec SkyView FPV goggles for $100 and used them today. The goggles were a huge improvement in seeing what the camera was seeing and made composing the scenes much easier. Of course, the down-side was that I would typically fly VLOS to where I wanted to film, hover and maintain position while using the FPV goggles for composition and doing fine tuning. Then removing the goggles before doing much flying. Of course, flying with the FPV goggles was easy but I wanted to try the scenario of not having a second observer (S.O.) and changing locations using VLOS - this was somewhat of a pain, but I can see where FPV flying without a S.O. could be very dangerous.
TIA for your insights!
Now that I'm starting to use the H+ for its intended purpose - flying camera platform - I'm forced into the need to spend some time staring at the ST16S monitor rather than just dong VLOS flying. I find that even with the sun shield and the brightness of the ST16S screen that I still have some difficulty seeing the image on the ST screen. Part of this may be due to what I am hopeful is a short-term vision issue, but I don't think that the issue is totally my personal one.
My fundamental question for experienced drone videographers is what method is most typically used to obtain decent composition while filming? Is the screen sufficient for most? I purchased the Yuneec SkyView FPV goggles for $100 and used them today. The goggles were a huge improvement in seeing what the camera was seeing and made composing the scenes much easier. Of course, the down-side was that I would typically fly VLOS to where I wanted to film, hover and maintain position while using the FPV goggles for composition and doing fine tuning. Then removing the goggles before doing much flying. Of course, flying with the FPV goggles was easy but I wanted to try the scenario of not having a second observer (S.O.) and changing locations using VLOS - this was somewhat of a pain, but I can see where FPV flying without a S.O. could be very dangerous.
TIA for your insights!