- This beach is called divorce beach, right?
- Oh my gosh someone proposed to someone right here.
How cute is that?
- What, wait what? - Will you marry me?
- We're at a place called divorce beach though.
How funny is that?
What if someone's headed here right now to like propose
but then we like shuffle the rocks around
to say you have a nice ass.
(laughing)
I wonder if he knows that if you go 30 feet that way
then it's like lovers beach?
Can't wait 'til drones are strong enough
to just like pick us up. (laughing)
I'll be like I'll meet you guys up there.
See ya, zoom!
And then I get a battery failure.
All right so we're doing this little adventure
to test out new anamorphic lens.
My moment.
Should be pretty cool.
Dan is a professional drone pilot here in Cabo
and he's showing us the best spot to fly a drone.
If you guys felt how windy it was up here,
you'd be a little sketched out too.
Don't fall.
- Doing that in flip flops.
(laughing)
- It's a little windy up here.
You think we're good? - Yeah we're good.
- All right so we have our Mavic 2 Pro right here.
I believe we just first start off by taking
off this thing here.
- Oh I just saw a whale breach.
- What? - Out there.
- Kelly just saw a whale breach.
We didn't even have to go on those whale watching tours,
you can just come up here.
Oh my god look I just got stuck by a cactus.
Anyways it comes in two pieces.
You got your lens here and then this
is like a counterweight.
Probably should've tried this once in the hotel room.
Oh there we go.
Insulation, piece of cake, sort of.
So now we're just running it through
a gimbal auto calibration, so hopefully this works.
I think the big thing is that you just have to turn on
the drone and have the gimbal on while you attach the lens.
It seems like it's working fine now so hell yeah.
(drone buzzing)
That's actually pretty dope.
It has an anamorphic look to it.
It is crazy windy up here.
Just trying to hover it's like sideways.
Does it look pretty epic?
(upbeat music)
- [Dan] Whoa, whoa, whoa, something happened with the lens.
- Uh oh. - Yeah it's too heavy.
- [Gene] I think it's the combination of the intense wind
pushing on that gimbal, but yeah the gimbal is just like
facing downward now.
I think we might need to test this again
at a less windy place.
- Yep. - It's trying to fix itself.
- It came back alive, the gimbal.
- The gimbal's back? - Yeah.
- All right cool.
The wind is definitely messing with the drone a little bit.
Strong wind.
Yeah I know.
I do wish I could put a ND filter on there
because it's pretty bright.
The downside is that the PolarPro ND Filters
that I currently own don't work
with this Moment Anamorphic Lens.
But Moment makes their own ND filters that attach on top.
The gimbal does occasionally do a little bit of,
but when you get the shot, it's pretty cool.
Ooh yeah I see that little flair.
The sun flair kind of comes in.
You wanna go stand on that ledge and risk your life
for this shot?
All right, here we go.
It's interesting because it has almost a certain softness
to it which is actually not a bad softness.
Like it kind of takes away a little bit of that
super digital sharpened looked that you get
out of a Mavic usually.
Should go give Dan a follow in Instagram
for risking his life for this footage.
Success, hell yeah.
- We didn't lose it.
- Yeah, I know right.
- I got scared. - Yeah.
- When this thing went crazy I got scared.
- All right we got one more battery on us here.
So let's find a flight location number two.
There's kind of an intense hike huh?
- It requires good foot balance because if you slip
and twist your ankle you'll be stranded here.
- [Gene] Yeah and you need some good hiking shoes.
(laughing) - Yeah.
- [Gene] Are you collecting trash along the way?
- Yeah.
Keep Cabo beautiful.
And then this right here goes in the ocean
and hurts my precious whales.
- This is a hazardous hike all this cactus everywhere.
- Another one right here and we've got barbed wire
going on here.
- The guy is like ah it's easy.
Easy 20 minutes.
I'll do it in flip flops.
It's like all right if you can do it in flip flops I'm good.
Look at this.
There's barbed wire on the ground.
Barbwire an inch to my left and cactus on my right, ugh.
I should've worn some armor.
Like a knight's armor.
Look at this view though.
This is dope.
You wanna stay still?
Okay go on.
Little guy is hitching a ride.
- This is the-- - This is the route huh?
- Yeah this is it.
- Okay.
I don't recommend this hike if you're afraid of heights.
That's not good and then there's cactus on the way down
so your last thought before death is ouch!
Hmm, I can't read it so I don't know what that sign means.
Hell yeah, we are good citizens here.
And when I say we I mean Carrie and Dan.
They're picking up trash while I'm just recording myself
so you know there's that.
I don't feel very good by myself any more.
How the hell is Dan doing this in sandals.
It's making me look bad.
We're almost back to safety.
We can stop playing that dramatic-ass music
that's playing in the background
making this more intense than it needs to be.
All right.
Location number two, shall we?
Let's take off.
(upbeat music)
Ah crap, it did the dip on me.
Well we got some shots while it lasted.
The footage does look dope though.
So I had that anamorphic lens on there, it's pretty sweet.
- It's pretty cool but right now it's too unreliable.
- Yeah, I think if it was like calmer winds
or maybe less aggressive flying it wouldn't be
as much of an issue.
But yeah I was just jamming it in one direction all the way
and it is definitely freaky when you're looking
at the monitor
and it just goes dunk and it just looks down.
- [Dan] I think it's the weight, the weight ratio still.
And the wind and the speed.
When it goes forward it technically does this.
- Like it's definitely not gonna be happy in sport mode.
Let's do a take two.
(upbeat music)
All right.
Welcome back to California.
I had a little bit more time to play with this
Moment Anamorphic Lens on the Mavic 2 Pro.
Learned a few things.
One, Moment doesn't recommend flying this with this lens
in high wind conditions, and also it's not really
designed to fly in sports mode.
It's more designed for those smooth, slow, cinematic shots.
Now I've been able to fly it fairly decently fast
in both cases but then after flying it for a little while
I'll notice that dip.
But Moment did say don't be alarmed if the camera does dip.
It can be a little bit freaky but basically the battery
is designed to prioritize power to the propellers.
So especially when the battery starts getting low,
or you get a lot of high winds,
or you're flying really fast,
it can cut power to the gimbal to make sure
that the propellers have enough power to stay flying.
Most of the time you just let it hover there for a second
and just kind of fondle this thing around a little bit
it eventually wakes back up.
Fondle, love that word.
But if it doesn't you still got that map and GPS,
so fly it way up and then return it to home that way.
But every time I've done it the gimbal's woken back up.
Sometimes it just took like two, three seconds.
Sometimes it takes like 30 seconds.
First time attaching it I was like, huh?
A lot of question marks popping out of my head,
but now that I've gotten used to it, it's just a matter of
you know, putting the gimbal at the right angle.
And notice how I attach that lens while the gimbal
is already on.
So now at this point you can see on the top left,
it says gimbal motor overloaded.
So that's where you gotta go into the gimbal,
auto calibrate, and it's definitely important to do this
gimbal calibration right.
You want a nice flat, even surface.
And one of the things I wanted to test out was active track.
Is it still gonna work?
Because how an anamorphic lens works, it kind of
squeezes in the image.
So what the camera now sees is now squished in.
Everything's unproportional.
But I wanted to know will active track still work
because now they footage that it's interpreting
is off scale a little bit.
It's all squished in and distorted.
And the answer is yes it still does interpret the footage
and it does a pretty good job of keeping track
of a person or a object.
But the downside is if that gimbal does start to do
a little bit of that jitter that happens sometimes,
it can start to freak out a little bit because it's trying
to track something, and as the gimbal moves, it assumes
that the whole world around it is moving so then it
starts to like fly all over the place a little bit
and that can be a little bit freaky.
I had a little panic moment there for a second. (laughs)
Or at least be kind of by your controller
and be ready to hit cancel on it so the drone's
not trying to chase something around
that isn't actually moving.
So overall thoughts on the Moment Anamorphic Lens
is that it's awesome but it comes at a cost.
And I'm not talking about the cost of $249 bucks,
basically $250 bucks, there is that of course.
But afterwards there is the cost of time.
Because remember you can't have this lens on there
when it boots up.
So if you do a battery swap you have to power down,
take off the battery,
put the new one back one,
take this off, then power up the drone,
then reattach this, then run the calibration,
and then you can finally fly.
And you also lose a little bit of that reliability
of the gimbal because you are way more likely
to run into little issues with the camera in high winds
or if you're flying really aggressively.
So if you're gonna do either of those
then always pop it off.
But in the situations where you're okay with this,
I definitely like the image that this produces.
I love the wider field of view.
It takes away a little bit of that super sharpened
digital video look and inches it towards more
of that traditional filmic look.
And when you're lucky enough to catch that flair,
uses that very distinct anamorphic look.
So in the situations where I have the time to set up
and I wanna get the best cinematic shot I can,
I definitely slap this on there
'cause I do like the way it looks.
Good news is that it comes in this nifty little
Moment case, and it and it doesn't take up much space,
so you can just leave this in your drone bag.
And whenever the opportunity arises
you can slap it on there.
But when the conditions aren't ideal,
then go ahead and skip it.
Anyway, shall we wrap this up
by reading a couple of comments?
David Eastham says, "My New Year's resolution
"is to watch every video you post twice."
David Eastham, you're my, I love you, man.
"My New Year's resolution is 1080p." (laughs)
"Why does he sound like Mark Ruffalo when he's sick?"
Do I?
So this is what I sound like when I'm sick.
Like, this is so boring.
And this is what Mark Ruffalo sounds like.
- [Mark] That sounds great.
- I don't know, you tell me.
Oh, by the way, remember how my motorcycle
was stolen out of my driveway a couple of weeks ago?
Well, good news.
No, they didn't find it.
The good news would have been, you know, we found he guy,
we beat the crap out of him, but no, that didn't happen.
But good news, insurance money came in
and I've got a new bike. (laughs)
(engine revving) (rock music)