Program the forward speed of flights (Mavic Air 2)
Just that, I would like to program the speed with which the drone (Maivc Air 2) advances in the missions this to guarantee a better quality in the photos and they are not blurred by movement.
Excellent, thank you very much. Today I did tests with the Mavic air 2 and to obtain good results, I had to activate the option to take the photographs in RAW format so that the speed would decrease to 15km but I think that if it is reduced even more between 10 - 5 km it would be excellent results. In normal mission (JPG) the speed up to 30km and the photos all came out blurry.
PS: Congratulations for the great work you have done with the application, the results are more than excellent, although some things need to be improved.
Is your drone camera in auto mode? Blurry images can be because of slow shutter speed.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I have a long todo list, so feel free to send me what you don’t like or what you feel uncomfortable in the app.
@Elio Migni Try to fly the mission with the setting to take the pictures in RAW mode and the speed is cut in half and allows the MA2 to take good quality pictures (tested by me).
The Copterus team recommends that we check if the shutter speed is in automatic, I will still have to do some tests.
I had same problem with my Mavic Air 2: due to "high" speed my pictures are all out of focus. It would be better hovering and take photo rather take photo during movement through waypoint. What do you think about it? In this moment is not possibile in the app
@Copterus Team That new control setting the speed looks great! Quick question on that: would this control the maximum allowed speed only? Meaning if the conditions computed by the app resulted in a slower speed I would think that it would still fly slower; however if conditions were better I would want it limited by the maximum speed set in this option. ( I suspect this doesn't limit the speed for the return to home or the flight to the starting point when no photos or video are taken). -- It would also be nice if the app automatically set the shutter speed to auto or (even better some fixed value so the exposure is even across the scene) as needed in the camera settings; to prevent forgetting to reset this before running a mission as the photos really aren't seen until later (and at that point it may be too late to rerun the mission).
@Shawn The manually set speed is treated as is. If you set it too fast when there is low altitude and thus short distance between photo points, then a camera might not have enough time to save a file. In this case you'll get a warning about it.
I also added a note about maximum recommended speed, which is based on altitude, photo points distance and DJI's recommended time for saving images: 2 secs for JPEG and 10 sec for RAW.
Right, this speed value is just for mission path, flying to the first waypoint and back to home will be at 10 m/s.
Auto settings for camera are recommended in most cases but sometimes a user knows better what values to set in certain light conditions. I'll think about it, may be I'll make a switch something like "Reset camera setting before flight", so this option would be controllable.
@Copterus Team Understood and that makes sense in some cases someone would want to override the shutter and speed settings for a particular case (though that option you mentioned to reset the camera settings would be nice). So the "Max recommended" speed value shown in the note changes with the other settings? If so that is great -- that will allow the pilot to see what is recommended then choose if they want to override it to something else. Thanks again!
Right now you can use right joystick (up and down) to control speed during the flight.
I'm currently redesigning the mission settings editor and it will be possible to manually set speed and adjust it in flight (in next app update).
Excellent, thank you very much. Today I did tests with the Mavic air 2 and to obtain good results, I had to activate the option to take the photographs in RAW format so that the speed would decrease to 15km but I think that if it is reduced even more between 10 - 5 km it would be excellent results. In normal mission (JPG) the speed up to 30km and the photos all came out blurry.
PS: Congratulations for the great work you have done with the application, the results are more than excellent, although some things need to be improved.
Is your drone camera in auto mode? Blurry images can be because of slow shutter speed. Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I have a long todo list, so feel free to send me what you don’t like or what you feel uncomfortable in the app.
@Elio Migni Try to fly the mission with the setting to take the pictures in RAW mode and the speed is cut in half and allows the MA2 to take good quality pictures (tested by me).
The Copterus team recommends that we check if the shutter speed is in automatic, I will still have to do some tests.
i'll try tomorrow and i'll send you a feedback about it
I had same problem with my Mavic Air 2: due to "high" speed my pictures are all out of focus. It would be better hovering and take photo rather take photo during movement through waypoint. What do you think about it? In this moment is not possibile in the app
@Copterus Team That new control setting the speed looks great! Quick question on that: would this control the maximum allowed speed only? Meaning if the conditions computed by the app resulted in a slower speed I would think that it would still fly slower; however if conditions were better I would want it limited by the maximum speed set in this option. ( I suspect this doesn't limit the speed for the return to home or the flight to the starting point when no photos or video are taken). -- It would also be nice if the app automatically set the shutter speed to auto or (even better some fixed value so the exposure is even across the scene) as needed in the camera settings; to prevent forgetting to reset this before running a mission as the photos really aren't seen until later (and at that point it may be too late to rerun the mission).
@Shawn The manually set speed is treated as is. If you set it too fast when there is low altitude and thus short distance between photo points, then a camera might not have enough time to save a file. In this case you'll get a warning about it.
I also added a note about maximum recommended speed, which is based on altitude, photo points distance and DJI's recommended time for saving images: 2 secs for JPEG and 10 sec for RAW.
Right, this speed value is just for mission path, flying to the first waypoint and back to home will be at 10 m/s.
Auto settings for camera are recommended in most cases but sometimes a user knows better what values to set in certain light conditions. I'll think about it, may be I'll make a switch something like "Reset camera setting before flight", so this option would be controllable.
@Copterus Team Understood and that makes sense in some cases someone would want to override the shutter and speed settings for a particular case (though that option you mentioned to reset the camera settings would be nice). So the "Max recommended" speed value shown in the note changes with the other settings? If so that is great -- that will allow the pilot to see what is recommended then choose if they want to override it to something else. Thanks again!