We have made our newly arrived DJI Mavic Air FPV suitable
The Mavic Air is probably the hottest camera drone currently, but we are actually not DJI aviators but FPV Racer pilots. And what do you want as an FPV pilot? Exactly: The thing from the first-person perspective fly, but do not stop ‘staring at the phone’.
So we built a DJI Mavic Air FPV.
DJI Mavic Air FPV
Can you fly the Mavic Air FPV?
Joah, you can go. But it takes a lot of getting used to. With the goggles you have a wide-angle image for FPV, which does not necessarily match the flight characteristics of the DJI. But you can definitely steer well from the first person perspective and above all have no time delays as on the phone. So with a bit of practice, that should allow you to fly a bit of proximity with the Mavic AIR.
What we used to build the DJI Mavic Air FPV
Felix has just designed a 3D part, which keeps the AIO FPV Cam. Originally, it had side panels when we got it from the 3D printer, but unfortunately, they did not quite fit under the propellers. So sawed off and done quite provisionally with tape to the Mavic. Because that was surprisingly good, but just with the back of the tape n 1S battery on it and our “Jenny Air FPV” was ready =)
360 degree “Inception Style” video on a FPV racing drone
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CJ Davies has a Ph.D. in computer science, lives in England and he has a hobby: 360 ° filming. And he combines that with his second hobby, flying FPV drones. He just made incredible shots with a Mijia Mi Sphere camera and a drone:
CJ Davies on his 360 ° FPV video – from 6 GoPro Hero to Mijia Mi Sphere
[German translation can be found below!]
Hi there!
I’ve had an interest in 360 ° media for some years now, after doing a Ph.D. in Computer Science during the beginning of the current VR resurgence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsDRPjDwr8A) then working professionally as a 360° stills photographer (https://cjdavies.org/#360) for several years.
My first contact with 360 ° video was with clunky multi-camera solutions (think six GoPro Hero 4 Black in an expensive bespoke rig) that would take just hours to remove all the cameras, take the SD cards out & dump all the files onto the computer, then many more hours on expensive sewing software manually tweaking things to get a passable result.
360° solutions (usually twin-lens style) in the last few years, as the Ricoh Theta & the Samsung Gear 360, which boast much faster / simpler workflows, but I did not consider any of them worth buying (& I did try several hands-on) until Xiaomi came out with her Mijia Mi Sphere camera earlier this year.
The Xiaomi camera has the IMU built in, which allows the footage to remain level & pointing in the same direction even as the camera rotates or turns upside down the video as you’re watching it, plus it gets rid of a lot of vibration/shakes. Xiaomi camera is really engaging with the community via Facebook to address feedback, distribute beta software/firmware builds for testing, etc.
My first attempt puts it on a drone what the relative safety of my tarot 650 on a trip to Iceland
The footage was stitched via the Mijia Mi Sphere app for Android (and it’s actually almost hardware acceleration) and then I edited it in Adobe Premiere CC 2018 using the GoPro VR plugins that you can install for Premiere / After Effects by installing the GoPro Fusion Studio (even if you do not have a GoPro Fusion & cannot actually use the Fusion Studio software).
Let me know if you have any questions!
Regards,
CJ Davies
German
Hello!
I’ve been interested in 360 ° for several years now, after doing my PhD at the beginning of the current VR upswing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsDRPjDwr8A) and then professionally as a 360 ° photographer for several years ( https://cjdavies.org/#360).
My first contact with 360° video was with chunky multi-camera solutions (six GoPro Hero 4 Black in an expensive custom-made rig). It took hours to remove all the cameras, remove the SD cards and copy all the files to the computer. Then many more hours to manually connect the images in an expensive stitching software, to arrive at a passable result.
A number of companies have released single-camera solutions for 360 ° in recent years (usually double lenses), such as the Ricoh Theta and Samsung Gear 360, which offer much faster and easier workflows. But I did not find any of them worth buying (though I had them in my hand) until Xiaomi came out with the Mijia Mi Sphere camera earlier this year.
The Xiaomi camera was (I think) the first to have an IMU installed that allows the footage to stay in the same orientation, even when the camera is spinning or turned upside down, and the video has much less vibration /Shaking. The quality of stitching with the Xiaomi camera is also very good and Xiaomi are really committed to sharing feedback with the Facebook community, distributing beta software/firmware builds for testing, etc.
My first attempt to attach the camera to a drone was on a trip to Iceland in the relative safety of my Tarot 650:
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Putting the camera on a 6 “FPV quad was much riskier, but I think the material was definitely worth it
[Video above]
The footage was made via the Mijia Mi Sphere app for Android (believe it or not, it’s really fast with hardware acceleration!), And then I edited it in Adobe Premiere CC 2018 with the GoPro VR plugins, which it did for Premiere / After Effects installs by installing GoPro Fusion Studio (even if you do not have GoPro Fusion and can not use Fusion Studio software).
DJI – the leading manufacturer of camera drones – has created a milestone in the consumer class with the Mavic Pro. The peculiarity of the Mavic Pro is certainly that despite all the capabilities that the larger Phanton models bring, they can be folded to an extremely small pack size.
DJI Mavic Pro Alpine White Limited Edition
Now DJI has released a special limited edition of the Mavic Pro in white and she is a real eye-catcher:
Where can I buy the DJI Mavic Pro Alpine White?
The Mavic Pro Alpine White Drone is offered “exclusively” at Apple. But that’s not quite true, because there is the Alpine White Limited Edition synonymous with DJI in their own shop to buy, but only for delivery to the States. If there are other options, we will add that here.
If you use this link to buy, you’ll even get $ 50 off:
What are the differences between the normal Mavic Pro and the Alpine White?
She is white.
Is the Mavic Pro Alpine White a racecopter? Can she acro?
No, the Mavic is definitely not a race drone. Although there is a sports mode in which you fly quite fast for a camera drone, the performance is in no way approaching a real racer like the Furibee. Also, she can still acro-mode, the few videos that came out until now are fakes (It was an April Fool’s joke).
But who knows? with a firmware update, that should actually be possible to fly the Mavic in Acrobatic mode. However, the battery does not have the output and the engines do not have the punch to fly like a real racing drone. If you are interested in such a thing, look here .
