Recent content by BarneyMeyer

Good question! A lot of people just post their drone-stitched low resolution panoramas to social media like Facebook, but that's a real shame when you're using a professional drone like Inspire 3 which can capture a 3Gpx panorama. I use AmazonS3 for hosting and a Wordpress website for featuring...

droneseyeview Affinity Photo doesn't give you the manual control. You throw your pano frames into Affinity and it stitches them. It seems more suited to flat panos with wide field of view, not a full 360x180° view. For that reason I recommend PTGUI Pro. PTGUI reads the Yaw, Pitch & Roll Metada...

droneseyeview Manual pano shooting is error-prone and time-consuming. Most likely you won't have sufficient battery life to complete the job if you're shooting 3Gpx panorama like I do, with the Inspire2 Zenmuse X and 50mm DL lens. I use the Litchi App, which automates the shoot pattern, then...

Harrison, I have shot many 3Gpx aerial panoramas with my I2 X7 50mmDL. I shoot in DNG then apply bulk lens corrections to all the frames in Adobe Camera Raw. I then tweak any other exposure settings for all the frames. Stitching is in PTGUI Pro, but you don't want PTGUI to have to warp all the...

Hi jiri.82 and RBP Sorry, I only saw these posts now. I know that the X5 works with Litchi from my own experience others that I have corresponded with. I use the X7, mainly with a 50mm lens to capture 3Gpx aerial panoramas. Visual conditions have to be good to resolve the fine detail. Strong...

If the Mavic3 with it's 4/3 sensor could fit a 50mm lens that would be a brilliant combination as it would match the Inspire 2 for very high resolution panoramas.

Hi Damian, glad that you like it. I used a 50mm lens on the X7. The pano is 77970x38985px=3Gpx. It would be very difficult to do this manually as the batteries would run out. Litchi is the only app that I know of that can control the gimbal/camera. The drone is parked, exposure set manually...

Sad but most likely true. The I2/X7/50mm DL lens allows me to capture 3Gpx aerial views to integrate into my story about the history of Melbourne. Hopefully a drone will come out with a 2/3rd sensor and interchangeable lenses. The large drones are just not portable enough for me. 3Gpx aerial...

I haven't updated firmware for ages, the drone works, DJI break something more often than fix it. The Go4 App is rubbish on the Inspire 2. I shoot 3Gigapixel aerial panoramas like this with Litchi, NEVER us e Go4. 3Gpx Melbourne from Melbourne High School

G'day Peter, I'm Barney from Melbourne. I had a P4P before I upgraded to I2/X7/50mmDL, which enables me to capture 3Gpx aerial panoramas.

Hi Zoran. I use the X7 with 50mm and 35mm DL lenses mainly. The systems seems stable, but I shoot 3Gpx aerial panoramas each with 150+ frames. If any frame is out of focus I have to throw the pano out. I always calibrate the focus before a flight, the rest of the calibrations seem stable but...

As Brett8883 said, Why is PTGUI the best for drone aerial panoramas? The drone camera embeds metadata into each DNG image frame: date/time, GPS position, Yaw, Pitch, Roll of the camera. In the early days of drones only Autopano Giga (now defunct) was able to read this data but PTGUI quickly came...

Agree completely! I use exactly the same workflow. Honestly, I don't know of a better workflow and I have tried many.

Lastly, I would love to have a light and portable programmable pano head which is smaller than the Mecha, because sometimes the only view to the outside of a tower is through a small hole. But unfortunately, all the Ronin heads seem to be for mobile phones (rubbish for quality panos) or video...

For high resolution (Gpx+) I use manual gimbals with wide lenses and a programmed gimbal with long lenses. "Long" I will define as 50mm and above, because a 50mm lens on my SonyA7R2 will give me a 2.7Gpx panorama of 360x180°. The Nodal Ninja Mecha range is very tough, programmable, and will...