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I’ve read over and over again about the worthlessness of the zoom feature however I finally was able to put it to good use in the covid-19 world.
My beautiful niece graduated on Sunday and unfortunately it was an unconventional graduation ceremony in this era of Covid. Attendance was only allowed with the mother, father and the graduate, with strict social distancing on the field. No other spectators were even allowed on the school property, which was also strictly enforced. Well, not to be deterred, my wife and I hiked 2 miles through the woods (f-you mavic users, the big typhoon can travel and get the job done with its backpack) to get to a backside fence just outside the football field and I launched my drone (which virtually everyone heard). I used the 8 times zoom feature and videoed her getting diploma.
Although my video isn’t crystal clear, the moments jerky (we were dodging police officers around the perimeter), the pictures were hazy and from different camera phones from my sister-in-law and brother, and the movie with pics is a bit sloppy; I was able to capture a very important memory for my family which I wouldn’t have otherwise gotten without the zoom feature. The first few opening shots were done with regular 1x video and the rest with 8x and clearly she would have been unrecognizable at 1x.
So the morale to my story is simply that in spite of all the anti-zoomers (is that a word?) and all the “zoom feature is useless” people, it was put to good use. I like the pic of my wife and I behind the chain link fence posing with my niece, I believe it encapsulates the Covid-19 era perfectly.
Stay strong zoom users, there’s room in the world for us after all!
My beautiful niece graduated on Sunday and unfortunately it was an unconventional graduation ceremony in this era of Covid. Attendance was only allowed with the mother, father and the graduate, with strict social distancing on the field. No other spectators were even allowed on the school property, which was also strictly enforced. Well, not to be deterred, my wife and I hiked 2 miles through the woods (f-you mavic users, the big typhoon can travel and get the job done with its backpack) to get to a backside fence just outside the football field and I launched my drone (which virtually everyone heard). I used the 8 times zoom feature and videoed her getting diploma.
Although my video isn’t crystal clear, the moments jerky (we were dodging police officers around the perimeter), the pictures were hazy and from different camera phones from my sister-in-law and brother, and the movie with pics is a bit sloppy; I was able to capture a very important memory for my family which I wouldn’t have otherwise gotten without the zoom feature. The first few opening shots were done with regular 1x video and the rest with 8x and clearly she would have been unrecognizable at 1x.
So the morale to my story is simply that in spite of all the anti-zoomers (is that a word?) and all the “zoom feature is useless” people, it was put to good use. I like the pic of my wife and I behind the chain link fence posing with my niece, I believe it encapsulates the Covid-19 era perfectly.
Stay strong zoom users, there’s room in the world for us after all!
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