All right, Brett Garamella here. Great to see you!
today i'm going to explain why i'm selling my rc pro controller and instead just going
with a normal setup with my normal controller in today's video so we're going to jump right into it
and i know i'm going to get a lot of comments or people saying you know why are you selling
the rc pro this this is uh over a thousand dollar controller why would you sell it
well i have my reasons that's what i'm going to talk about today and i'm not 100 convinced so if
you can leave a comment below by the end of this video convincing me hey brett maybe you should
hold on to this and not sell it maybe i'll change my mind but until then here are my reasons why so
first thing and this is the main reason why i'm selling my rc pro controller is that i don't quite
get the same feel from this controller as i do my normal controller so the sticks it has it's a
spring loaded sticks like this and it feels a lot like my phantom 4 pro my old phantom 4 pro which
i no longer longer use but it it i don't quite have the same control that i do with the normal
controller now i know a lot of people are gonna say the opposite say no the normal controller i
get way better control but for me i just it just feels right now another thing to consider is
that my hands i don't have large hands okay so when i hold this controller it feels really big
and it just doesn't it just doesn't fit right like i i actually like the mavic 2 pro controller the
best uh and to me this is the second best option and rc pro uh controller is the third option so
this is a lot smaller and it just feels right in my hands i just feel like i have better control of
my thumbs and i can just i can just do what i want maybe it's because my thumbs are closer together
on this controller whereas on this controller my thumbs are a lot farther apart so with my thumb's
a lot farther apart i don't know just something in my mind and the feel of the spring-loaded sticks
it feels almost like it moves almost too easily i can't quite when i want to get those slow
movements or ease into a shot or slow it down i can't quite get it quite right so that's the first
reason why i'm and the main reason why i'm selling this controller now the second reason um then i'm
concealing this controller is the price okay it's over a thousand dollars i can sell this controller
and then i can get i'm actually gonna thinking about getting another mavic 2 uh sorry mavic 3
mavic 3. um i have the cine version here i think the next one i'm just gonna get the normal version
and that'll be my backup drone okay so i'll have two drones uh with the mavic 3 i already have the
air 2s but the other mavic 3 with that thousand dollars i could put it towards that i could also
put it towards more batteries although right now i have a lot of batteries i have about five
batteries five or six batteries so that's plenty of battery uh with this drone because it flies
up to 35 37 minutes so i have plenty of battery batteries with that but the money i can get i
can put this towards camera i can just save save that money etc so that's the other reason
uh so the range now the range they say this is 03 plus range the transmission however
i found i haven't really seen a difference so with the normal controller and the rc
pro the range seems to be exactly the same the signal strength seems to be the same and
yeah it's weird because sometimes the rc pro i've flown this quite far and i'm surprised at
the range and then other times it'll break up uh when i'm going near objects behind slightly behind
the object and i'm i'm a little confused by it so i think there still needs to be some updates with
the o3 plus transmission so eventually it might be better than the normal controller for range
and for signal strength but as of right now it's the same and i've flown a lot with it i was just
out in nevada i was out in utah i did a lot of flying and i started out with the rc pro
controller but then i switched over to the normal controller because it just just felt better i just
looked at the the shots and i did both and it just felt better with a normal controller
plus i had the bigger screen with my ipad which i'm going to talk about in a second
so that was another thing to consider now the last thing is another reason i'm selling it this is
as of right now it'll eventually be compatible i think with all all these dji drones but right
now it's only compatible with the mavic 3 and the air 2s okay pretty soon i'm sure the mavic
2 and the other drones as well but to me this normal control is already compatible
with more drones so that's another plus so it's not a huge deal but that's one of the reasons now
why i might keep this and this is what probably a lot of people are thinking in the comments below
are you know why would you sell this it start for number one it starts up so fast so i get
faster startup time than the normal controller however for me what i do my type of work that i
do for clients and so forth i've never had any issues with that i don't need to get to a spot
and be like all right i need to shoot right now no i usually get
i arrive early so i can set up i have everything planned out
i work more methodically that's my more my style but if you're like oh i need to get this shot and
really quick then yes this controller definitely starts up faster but it's not a huge deal it's not
a huge difference for me all right another thing is this is has high brightness a thousand nits
so in midday sun if i look at it it's going to look i'm never gonna have issues where i can't
see my screen okay so that is one of the main reasons why i might keep it but you know this
this screen with i just have a normal ipad i've always used a normal ipad
i've never had any issues with it now the reason i use just a normal ipad is because the an ipad mini
just seems a little too small and it you know it's almost like if you're gonna go
if you're gonna get an ipad you might as well get it significantly bigger than this screen right
so having the screen real estate of a normal ipad is really helpful helps me nail the shot
and you know some people say oh the ipads overheat or or let's talk about screen brightness so some
people say you know i can't see the ipad i've never had that issue i've always been fine you
know even in midday sun i can just turn away from the sun and i can still see it fine i've never had
an issue and if you want you could get a hood i've never used a hood i've always had you know
you could find a tree and overhang a building something to shade yourself and see the screen
so i've never personally never had that issue okay um the next thing is
uh you don't so with this setup now you don't need the cable okay this mount you don't need
to carry all this and the tablet that's kind of annoying i agree with carrying the mount
having the cable and the tablet can be a little annoying but i've been in production for so
long so for me this is kind of nothing you know i carry around light stands and tripods and lighting
modifiers and all this other gear uh throughout my whole career so i to me this is actually
pretty simple pretty light and it all folds up and goes in and it doesn't really take that much time
to set up so people i think make a bigger deal about it than it is or you could just leave it
like this and just put it in your car or just put it you know in your bag if you have another bag
and just roll with it like this so to me that's not that big of a deal now this controller i'll
put links to all this equipment in the description below this controller is uh this tablet holder
fits the newer controllers okay and i really love it it's nice and sturdy
and it fits up to goes a little wider like ever so slightly but not much like a few more millimeters
so this is this holder is good for a normal size ipad now with a bigger ipad like a on the ipad
pro you're probably going to need a different mount personally i think the pro is overkill you
don't really need it but you could go i also have this as a backup if i ever wanted to get a bigger
tablet i have the mav mount so the mav mount it's significantly bigger if i put it next to it
let me just put it next to i don't know if you can see it here there we go it's like you know it's
hard to show it here on screen it's significantly bigger all right you can see how it stretches out
so you could easily fit an ipad pro with this mav mount however i i don't really that's not my
setup i go just plain simple ipad this controller normal controller and this is my favorite setup
okay i think the ipad pro is overkill i don't need a bigger controller than normal ipad i don't like
the mini because it's a little too small okay so this is my setup it feels great like this
i don't need to look at the control sticks when i'm flying i've memorized where all the buttons
are okay so you might want to practice a little before you do that but then once you get used
to the setup it's great i love it so that's the one i recommend and that's why i'm selling my rc
pro controller okay so i'm gonna take that money i'm gonna put it towards i could get
another tablet if i wanted to i could get you know whatever i want so that's my thoughts on it
if you have different thoughts i'd love to hear them because i've i'm considering maybe keeping it
uh it's just as having a backup but i'm you know if i don't use it what's the point of of keeping
it that's a thousand dollars i can be putting towards i can get another drone all right or the
next drone that comes out i can put it towards that or i can get another lens camera etc so
appreciate you watching let's see and we are doing the live stream so i'm seeing
if we have any questions here okay so trini week says what about a triple tech 8 pro
okay i've never used that i'm not sure about that if it you could try it out personally
i like i just like the normal ipad and then i use my ipad another great thing about the ipad
is that when i want to show my work i go to a client and i can show them my work on my
ipad so i just bring the ipad by itself and i have all my my portfolio on here
and my videos photos that i show them and it's really a professional presentation that i can
show them so it's versatile whereas with a with the rc pro you can't really show your work on
this it'd be kind of weird to show your i guess you could but be kind of weird to do that so
that's my reasoning for selling the rc pro hope you enjoyed this video hope you got some value
out of it if you did give me a thumbs up if you haven't done so i make a lot of videos like this
about drones tutorials and tech reviews i'm going to make a lot more about the mavic 3 because as i
said i went out to nevada and utah flew it a lot so if you want to see more of that please
subscribe to my channel and i also am expanding my channel mixing in some photography and filmmaking
videos as well but the primary focus is drones so that's something you're interested consider
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