{"id":6606,"date":"2018-02-25T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6606"},"modified":"2018-03-13T07:46:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:46:37","slug":"a-little-drone-fun-at-10000-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/25\/a-little-drone-fun-at-10000-ft\/","title":{"rendered":"A little drone fun at 10,000 ft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NewImage-31.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"250\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve just returned from spending a week in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leadville,_Colorado\">Leadville, CO<\/a>, which at 10,200 ft. is the highest incorporated city in the US. Despite the inevitable dehydration insomnia that always afflicts me there, I didn\u2019t find the elevation\u00a0<em>quite<\/em>\u00a0high enough, so I brought my Mavic Pro (piloted by a custom-printed \u201cGoogler\u201d minifig) to capture a few shots of Leadville from above. You can find some 360\u00ba panoramas (uploaded to &amp; embedded via Google Maps) and videos below.<\/p>\n<p>Quick observations in case you\u2019d find them useful:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.dji.com\/voucher\/goggles180205na?gclid=Cj0KCQiA2snUBRDfARIsAIGfpqF4aoMoLyr7sqIvd2i6HJy4K8YTqYTelYzkurQ3eetiJQEZ7whDHw0aAoS2EALw_wcB\">DJI Goggles<\/a>\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0make it easier to fly while panning\/tilting one\u2019s camera, and I got my smoothest shots yet. On the downside, I\u2019ve yet to figure out how to adjust the picture to look fully clear to my eyes (with or without glasses), and the fact that you apparently can\u2019t just put them into head-tracking mode before a flight &amp; keep them there is a pain.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=74zYPCQwkeU\">360\u00ba panorama capture<\/a> is totally my jam. Whereas I find capturing video stressful (is it smooth enough? will anyone find it interesting?)\u00a0and editing video laborious, shooting panos is almost trivially easy. Having said that, I ran into a few snags:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Downloading &amp; installing the needed firmware update took several tries, due partly to dodgy mountain WiFi &amp; partly to the DJI app\u2019s less-than-straightforward flow.<\/li>\n<li>An inscrutable, non-dismissible (!) warning screen would sometimes pop up to let us know that we were a few miles from an airport. It blocking most of the screen, coupled with the wonky path one must follow to invoke pano capture mode, meant that we blew it on at least one pano, accidentally capturing 180\u00ba instead of 360\u00ba\u2014and facing the wrong way at that!<\/li>\n<li>I found that Facebook wouldn\u2019t recognize the panos as panos, so after some searching I found &amp; downloaded the metadata-tweaking tool <a href=\"http:\/\/panoramaphotographer.com\/software\/exiffixer\/\">Exif Fixer<\/a>. Running it on the images did the trick.<\/li>\n<li>Stitching images on my iPhone X was fairly quick (taking perhaps a minute for a full 360) and did a pretty good job (PTGui, which I downloaded, seemed to do no better). On the downside it sucks that the process is modal, blocking you from using the app to fly, so you\u2019d probably do well to wait &amp; stitch after landing.<\/li>\n<li>The exposure on what might\u2019ve been my best pano was totally blown out for reasons I don\u2019t understand. \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u00a0Okay, on to the pics &amp; vids!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1519527618202!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSK0FGMVFpcE5iUWh3MGNnWmUxWXlOX3pGRUh6SDZBclFLUlFsbGFrekN1TDg.!2m2!1d39.2457262!2d-106.300208!3f166.93092844108574!4f-16.885928061144014!5f0.7820865974627469\" style=\"border: 0;\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMYZwtudyng\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MJvFKjx46GM\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1519528161346!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSK0FGMVFpcFAxcG5CellZWFpZRUI5bnFyUm9BYnRiOTVDT2lRX0YwaDRtM2s.!2m2!1d39.2475873!2d-106.2966219!3f38.43898323120988!4f-6.690482903208633!5f0.7820865974627469\" style=\"border: 0;\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve just returned from spending a week in Leadville, CO, which at 10,200 ft. is the highest incorporated city in the US. 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