Call me paranoid or whatever, but...
I came from a P3A world and while traveling to an island in the Caribbean, my P3A camera gimbal was damaged in transit. Nothing more frustrating that being on an island for 3 weeks and not being able to shoot video. Flying circles over the beach with no camera gets kinda boring after about 5 min. I kind of recovered but it was expensive and not perfect. (combined 2 1/2 working gimbals into 1 95% working one)
Anyway, I'm into the Inspire Pro now, enjoying the X5, but am heading back to the islands in the summer, and fear any sort of "Show stopper" issue with the X5 that might cut me off again. Following the threads here, I'm not seeing many comments about broken gimbals, ribbon cable issues, etc etc.
So my question is...
Would it be worth it to have a X3 as a backup, just in case something went wrong with the X5?
I know this is subjective, as $300 is diff to everybody. But compared to the cost of the pro in the first place, $300 is nothing.
Maybe I'm really asking for the comfort factor everybody has with the X5.
Can it take a bump and survive?
Maybe anything stressful enough to damage the X5, would also damage the Inspire anyway, and put it completely out of commission? So no point in having a spare.
And I say X3 as a backup, as I'm not a pro, not doing anything for money, This just a hobby. So I realize what I'd be loosing with the downgrade, but at least maybe not out of commission.
Opinions?
PS: If anybody has upgraded their Inspire to an X5, and wants to sell off the X3, pop me a message.
I came from a P3A world and while traveling to an island in the Caribbean, my P3A camera gimbal was damaged in transit. Nothing more frustrating that being on an island for 3 weeks and not being able to shoot video. Flying circles over the beach with no camera gets kinda boring after about 5 min. I kind of recovered but it was expensive and not perfect. (combined 2 1/2 working gimbals into 1 95% working one)
Anyway, I'm into the Inspire Pro now, enjoying the X5, but am heading back to the islands in the summer, and fear any sort of "Show stopper" issue with the X5 that might cut me off again. Following the threads here, I'm not seeing many comments about broken gimbals, ribbon cable issues, etc etc.
So my question is...
Would it be worth it to have a X3 as a backup, just in case something went wrong with the X5?
I know this is subjective, as $300 is diff to everybody. But compared to the cost of the pro in the first place, $300 is nothing.
Maybe I'm really asking for the comfort factor everybody has with the X5.
Can it take a bump and survive?
Maybe anything stressful enough to damage the X5, would also damage the Inspire anyway, and put it completely out of commission? So no point in having a spare.
And I say X3 as a backup, as I'm not a pro, not doing anything for money, This just a hobby. So I realize what I'd be loosing with the downgrade, but at least maybe not out of commission.
Opinions?
PS: If anybody has upgraded their Inspire to an X5, and wants to sell off the X3, pop me a message.