Recent content by Wanderlost

Are you looking for a charger that can charge/discharge to storage levels? Or do you want one that can bring the battery down to zero to level the cells and recharge?

I love the Live View. When flying sideways or backwards, the appropriate camera comes on and I can SEE what I'm doing. Very nice update.

Sorry - not familiar with Map Box. I've never seen that on my M3E here in Canada.

I find the resolution of Google maps to be quite variable. Excellent for built-up areas - cities, towns, et., but poor to very poor for remote locations. Instead of satellite view, can you just select map view to make mission planning easier? What kind of Google services are you talking about?

The whole Essex County area in Ontario here is covered with capped gas and oil wells. Some have been lost over the years. The gas seeps are variable from small to some large ones that they couldn't locate the source of until there was an explosion that blew up a portion of the downtown core in...

Thanks for the link - very informative! Which sensor package do you use for UAV methane detection? The Flir, Falcon, etc.? What is the width of the corridor that you survey? I'm trying to get a feel for how much overlap would be required for a flight, or if I'm just dreaming that I could do this...

I can't seem to find much information about use in the field with the U10 methane gas detector by AiLF. I'm trying to find out if it can be used to scan a wide area like my M3E/M30 doing surveys and mapping. We have an interest in our county where there are a lot of wells - many of which have...

If you're talking about regular cameras, then the reasons are multiple; For silence. Are you in a courtroom? Wedding venue? Funeral? Also, electronic shutters often allow much higher frames per second shooting than mechanical ones. If this is a drone you're talking about, then except for wear...

I just checked the EXIF data and shutter actuations weren't listed. I also ran an online EXIF reader that checks for shutter actuations without result. That program works on my cameras though.

Maybe my older DSLRs had that kind of life, but nowadays, this is what we get: "Nikon claims a shutter life expectancy of 200 000 actuations for its Z6 and Z7 mirrorless cameras. Canon's EOS R is also rated for 200 000 actuations, although the lower-priced EOS RP is rated for up to 100,000...

That makes sense Dave. I don't know if the lenses can be easily separated from the shutter/sensor mechanism or as you suggest, it's just easier to replace the whole camera on the gimbal. I often look at things from a photography perspective since that's one thing I've been doing consistently for...

This is an interesting concern for us M3E owners who do a lot of photogrammetry. I don't see anywhere in the app where the number of shutter actuations are logged. I can get the information from my DSLRs and mirrorless camera shutters though and get an idea of how much time might be left in its...

Here's the link to the dataset. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NgfOjGUW-5bUJVLxrw-1kp0Nq8iml7ID?usp=drive_link

Here's a link to the hi-res .jpg. Take a look and see if this will meet your needs and if it's OK, I can link the dataset - it's about 5 GB. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_4rgP4Bw24VwyMt-RTzKe6XThOxPdpDc/view?usp=drive_link

I have hundreds of photos of rural land I've taken with my M30, much of it for mapping purposes. I can send you a link to some samples, or to a whole sample set if that would be useful - let me know.