Our new direct-drive brushless gimbal, coming soon to a copter near you!
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Our new direct-drive brushless gimbal, coming soon to a copter near you!
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John, I would expect that a company like 3DR would be on the side of customer options and not on the side of a single camera solution. There are ways to resolve CoG and other elements.
My point really is that 3DR should push choices and let the community figure out the uses instead of limiting to a poor optical experience which is the GoPro. There are plenty of customers with standard compact point and shoot cameras like a S95 or S110 that they would much rather fly and have a nice quality photo than a fisheye photo.
Allowing people to have a choice and figure out new and interesting ways to do something is a much better path than one camera ONLY. I would love to see more people flying a NIR camera and doing aerial surveying and other real UAV utility functions.. than just fly to take pretty pictures and video.
LanMark, brush-less gimbals have very little torque and need the camera to be perfectly balanced to be able to rotate quickly enough and get good results. To help with this, the gimbal must be carefully designed for the weight class and shape of the camera to be used. And since most cameras do not have the CoG of the housing aligned with the lens center, it is not possible to place the camera at the center of the lens and maintain gimbal balance. To do so, you would have to place extra weight on the gimbal to balance it out.
But in practice, having the lens rotation off by a couple of centimeters does not impact the result. Especially when working with large focus distances (infinity) like you do on copters.
Cute, want one too!
Guys I am afraid these type of gimbals require precise spacing and alignment for mass and lens to be effective... so that is why you will often see a specific model for a specific camera type. I am not saying that special plates cannot be done but it involve more than just mounting screws location change.
I am testing quite a few around here and in order to really make it worth the money I have to say that not many of the cheap ones works well. Can't wait for this one, really want to carry it if it works!
Dany
How to shoot video like this :D
Please at least support something that isn't a f-ing GoPro!!! as much as I love my GoPro Hero 3 Black, a gimbal that is designed ONLY for a GoPro is a waste of money and development time quite honestly. I have specialized optical cores that I would like to fly so please offer two brackets (like steadidrone.com).. one bracket for the GoPro and the other for a standard 200g point and shoot... also make the bracket adjustable so you can center the lens to the two axis. (Unlike DJIs crappy gimbal that has the lens center way off center even though it is made only for GoPro Hero 3.. oh and $1k in price)
Sorry but not everyone loves GoPro, but there sure is a lot of people that want to fly other cameras ones with a standard mounting screw. Other cameras for real utility work and not just shooting pretty fish eye pictures and video.
This just seems like a rip from the DJI gimbal with a bit better design. There done with my rant and 2cents... okay more like a buck fifty.
Can't wait for the 3 axis version.
I definitely want/need one too. When it will be in store?
+1 on that Peter. Same gimbal with optional mounting plate.
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