Every time.
At the moment I'm looking for a white horse. It'll make more sense if I can find it and
show you what I'm talking about but I wanted to come and fly my Avata and find
the White Horse so that I can fly around it because it should look pretty cool.
I found it and I just, I just went past somewhere where I could actually pull into park,
it's here so I found it.
Okay.
There's just an hour till sunset now so I don't have a lot of time to fly and try and get footage
that doesn't look too mushy because the sensor on the Avata isn't massive so the footage won't
look great in low light, but that's by the by. I just wanted to come out and fly anyway and the
significance of me coming to this spot was the fact that I originally came here when I got my
Phantom 3 Professional, and it was really, it was summertime, the landscape looked awesome,
the yeah the landscape looked awesome and I got some really cool footage and some
cool photos as well but I just wanted to come back here because I actually wanted to fly the
Avata out to the White Horse and see just really see how close I could get like the
range of the Avatar and also just be quite cool like skipping over, not skipping over,
but like going through the rapeseed even though there's not really much of it at the moment
but that's basically the point of the video, but also I just wanted to give you a beginner's
perspective from having the DJ Avata and actually flying fpv for the first time.
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got some light and actually the sun's come out quite bright now so I'm gonna start flying.
Okay so one of the first things I wanted to talk
about was the flying experience and I've flown drones before.
The first drone I had was the DJI
Phantom 3 professional and absolutely loved that drone it was massive so I couldn't take and my
other camera gear with me it was either that or the drone ,which is why I got rid of it and got
a Mini 2 instead but loved flying that drone and I just love flying drones in general but
FPV is definitely a new experience to me but I am absolutely loving it so far and the Avata
is so easy to fly. I really thought the motion controller was really strange to use at first
and I found myself, like, moving my entire arm which you don't have to do you literally just move
your wrist left and right and then up and down and whatnot so you don't have to move your arm
but I just felt like it was really strange to fly, but when I actually started using the controller
properly then it felt a lot more natural, and one of the things I do actually want to do is
get the RC controller, and I almost had it, I got an email to say that it was back in stock
and I had the email like an hour before I saw it, I went on started purchasing it, got to the PayPal
screen then it wouldn't let me buy it because it was in that time it had gone out of stock,
so hopefully I'll be able to get another one as soon as it comes out and I'm going to jump
on that, but I do really want to try it with the actual RC controller to see how it feels to fly,
but otherwise it's great, I absolutely love it and I've really been enjoying using it.
One thing I will say though is that I definitely get motion sickness
and I tried sitting down to see if this would make a difference but it didn't really,
so I feel like in between battery breaks, I kind of... in between switching batteries I just kind
of have a break and then I'm fine but the motion sickness is definitely real, I don't know how
to get past that, if anyone has any tips that would be great because it's not very pleasant,
but that's the only thing that I would say in terms of flying FPV, is the motion sickness.
Just make sure it's facing the right way. Yeah it'd been really awkward if it was facing
the other way and flew into me. Of course it's facing that way I can see the camera.
okay let me sort out my camera settings, make sure it's in manual. So I want also
manual settings. So I've got an ND16 on at the moment I think which is definitely too much
because of my shutter speed. Of course because it's at 60 FPS
Okay let me just take my... I'm going to take my ND filter off because I
don't actually think I need it because my shutter speed is at 1/120th anyway so
I've also switched image stabilization off
I want to put it in Gyrolow but anyway let's get, let's get going.
So in my first video when I literally bflew it for the first time I did crash, obviously,
it was bound to happen but the drone was fine, I feel like this drone is definitely,
what's the word? Durable, like if you crash it depending on how you crash it I feel like
it's going to be okay in most scenarios, and I mean mine was literally a tumble in the grass
so I didn't expect it to be damaged or anything and it wasn't but obviously with something like
a Mini 3 Pro or a Mavic 3 or anything like that it's a lot more fragile,
but yeah definitely more robust with the DJI Avata, and one thing that I did really want to try
was Turtle mode. So when I put my first video up DJI commented on my video saying that if it flips
over or it crashes and it flips over you can put it into Turtle mode and then you can flip it back
so you don't have to go and get the Drone, turn it over and then fly it but this only... this doesn't
work with the motion control, I did try and but there's a way that you have to do the sticks,
so this is another reason why I wanted the RC controller because I wanted to try it out,
so when I get the RC controller I will try that out because that is pretty cool. The other thing
that I did watch was a video by the Curious Nomad which was really useful about using the GPS in the
goggles to find the drone, so when I crashed my drone I knew where it was but it took me a little
while to find it because I didn't know which tree it crashed into so I was kind of walking around in
circles for a little bit before I found it, but if you use the GPS in the goggles to find the drone
then you can literally bring up the location on your phone and you can just walk straight to the
drone and then you don't have to look around and try and find it and spend ages looking for it so
that is something that I haven't yet tried that I do want to try. So I won't purposefully crash
it I'll just go and leave it somewhere, or I'll get someone to leave it somewhere and then I'll
try and find it myself on my phone, but in terms of crashing yeah I have no worries about it and
also getting DJI Care Refresh definitely puts my mind at ease when it comes to flying because
if it flies away or is unrecoverable then at least I know I'll get a replacement. It doesn't
make me more of a reckless flyer or anything it just gives me less anxiety when I'm flying.
I really need to find somewhere that has obstacles that I can go around and
just practice flying around obstacles that are quite... spread out quite far
Sky's
starting to make like a kind of marbel effect that you get when it's sunset and it's like a clear
sky, it looks really cool over there. So in terms of the footage that comes from the Avata I feel
like the first time I flew it was really mushy and that was because it was basically a really grey
dull day so obviously today it's around sunset, it is basically sunset, it's going to be in half
an hour so the footage from the goggles actually looked quite decent and I think because I also
I shot in D-Cinelike this time as well, so I will color correct and color grade
the footage to how I would want it to look but it actually looked a lot clearer and
a lot sharper and a lot cleaner so obviously that's just me looking it through the goggles,
so I want to get it onto my laptop, I'll be able to see better, but
I actually took my ND filter off because I didn't need it because like I said it's really getting
down to low light and it's shooting in 60 FPS anyway and my frame rate is double that of my,
no, my shutter speed is double my frame rate so it was at 1/120th of a second so that I
could get natural motion blur so I actually didn't need an ND filter. That was a really
long way of saying I didn't need an ND filter but hopefully the footage does look decent, but one
of the things that I really hope is that with the firmware update you'll be able to shoot in
lower frame rates, so it'd be nice to shoot in 24 or 25 FPS just for more of a
cinematic look to the footage, so hopefully that's something that comes but, honestly
the biggest reason that I got this drone was for me to just have a blast and just have fun just
flying and just not necessarily shooting footage to be cinematic, I just wanted to have something
that I could just have fun with you know. My Mini 3 is going to be the one that I use to fly and
get, you know, really nice cinematic footage when I want to put it in videos and stuff,
so yeah this is just for me to have fun with, so I'm not really that bothered if
there isn't a firmware update which allows that because it's not really a big deal.
Oooop that light.
So this definitely wasn't a review of the Avata or even me trying to give you any wise words of
wisdom as a pro or anything because I'm literally a beginner when it comes to flying FPV drones,
so yeah I hope this was useful to anyone out there who was thinking of getting one
and just go for it.
Nothing else to say other than thank you Epidemic Sound for sponsoring this video.