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If you can understand 1/3 of the title of this post, you are a heli-geek. Yesterday I picked up the camera I will be using with my big hexactoper. The copter frame is a Tarot T960.
The Sony NEX-5T (a mirror-less high quality camera) is mounted to the frame via a auto-leveling device called a “gimbal.” That’s the Arris Zhaoyun (Chinese name of course).
I flew twice today. The first flight was pretty smooth and the jello effect (vibrating video) was hardly there. That’s what my current mode is, jello-reduction. Actually I should say jello-elimination.
This afternoon’s flight was more in focus as far as the camera went, but there was way too much jello. Post flight I looked at my remote and it looks like I had my gains turned down, which might have caused the jello. Gains are a fine-tuning setting for the motors. Also, the winds were up, which can also cause vibration issues.
In these photos you’ll notice that the camera is on one end, and the batteries on the other. I’m using the batteries as a counterweight.
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