Ventseslav Kolev

Hello, the new version of the aircarft will be ready this month. All this corections will be made. See www.ufo-camera.com Regards Venci

Hello, I have rc quadrotor which can carry RED one. You can see some shots . There is long time with level horizont. No stabilization software used - raw material from the camera. The wind is 4-5 m/s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PDecRi3Ts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyfNXoTA9Wo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1tgBpOKf6w The aircraft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUMkJKd_m6w Regards Venci Promising, but to be brutally honest, it lacks precision. This is probably somewhat inevitable with a small remotely controlled platform like a helicopter, but the biggest issue I see is the constant loss of a level horizon. This could to an extent be corrected in post, at some cost in resolution, but I think you will need to do something about this before it can become a really mainstream tool. My impression was that when the camera is looking directly ahead, all is well, but if you're looking sideways and the aircraft pitches its nose down to gain speed (since it's a helicopter, albeit a small one) you end up with a pretty severe loss of horizon. I don't know what you're using for a pan and tilt mount, but I would suggest that you might need to look into some sort of solution for holding the camera level. This could be manually-controlled, or as simple as a gyroscope mounted on a free-swivelling roll axis cage, or as complicated (but lighter) as a tiny reference gyro slaved to a servoactuated roll axis. I presume these things exist, but perhaps not at the scale and weight you can deal with. Otherwise not bad - the most common plaint I've had about radio-control camera platforms is repeatability, and I'd be interested to see you fly the same shot several times. It needs to be able to hit its marks. P