About

Gender

Male


Location

Costa Mesa, CA


About Me:

I'm a storyteller but love to film/fly/experiment.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Been flying for over a year now and am absolutely addicted to it.


Hometown:

Orange County


Activity Feed

Austin Chapman commented on Roberto Navoni's blog post Mechanical Hands From A MakerBot: The Magic Of Robohand (From Makerbot blog news)
"Truly shows how this technology has the potential for great evil or great good. Let's keep steering towards the latter."
May 20, 2013
Austin Chapman commented on Hex Air Robot's blog post HeX mini
"Marvelous! One of the best designs I've ever seen."
Jan 18, 2013
Austin Chapman posted a discussion
After several frustrating weeks, I pin-pointed the problem to my Devo 10 transmitter. It's simply not compatible as far as I know and I tested it with a cheap hobbyking transmitter and it worked perfectly.The instructions say there are some issues…
Oct 2, 2012
Austin Chapman commented on Austin Chapman's blog post The perfect quadcopter camera?
"First of all- wow! There’s a wealth of information from the insightful commenters here so I’m adding some of these into the post itself. I'm unable to edit this post so I made the updates to my original post over at artofthestory.com@Sandor- the…"
Aug 11, 2012
Austin Chapman commented on Austin Chapman's blog post The perfect quadcopter camera?
"Hey everyone,

Thanks for all the input and comments! I don't have access to a computer until Sunday but I promise to respond to all thr comments... Also I'm sorry that I ran into several formatting errors and I can't edit it right now. (buggy) But…"
Aug 4, 2012
Austin Chapman commented on Austin Chapman's blog post The perfect quadcopter camera?
"Sandro,

I wish all the great cameras had CCD sensors but that's simply not true. The RED epic uses a CMOS sensor and so does the ARRI Alexa. 

Image quality is subjective. There will be people who prefer the look of CCD over CMOS and vice versa. I…"
Aug 3, 2012
Austin Chapman commented on Austin Chapman's blog post The perfect quadcopter camera?
"John, You're absolutely right about the gopro having some of the worst rolling shutter issues but the sony NEX still has rolling shutter, it simply does a better job of hiding it.
 
A few of today's CMOS cameras have rolling shutter prevention and…"
Aug 3, 2012
Austin Chapman commented on Austin Chapman's blog post The perfect quadcopter camera?
"Here's the other video that should have been in the post. Not sure why it didn't show up."
Aug 3, 2012
Austin Chapman posted a blog post
I love my Canon mark 2 and gopro camera but it's absolutely terrible as a quadcopter camera.The vibrations coupled with the CMOS sensor wrecks the whole image beyond repair.Nearly all of today's cameras are made with CMOS sensors rather than the…
Aug 3, 2012