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Camera phones sucked until iPhone 4 at least.
No, camera phones were very good since the Sony Ericsson days - ~2006. I have a book from that era all about mobile camera photography, written by a professional photographer, and illustrated only with pictures shot on a Nokia phone. The pictures are of excellent printable quality with amazing colors.
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That is nice, but there is still intentionally misleading marketing fluff like this: >Each rechargeable battery allows you to capture content for 5-8 flights, depending on the flight mode(s) selected. Rechargeable batteries can be swapped for easy use... Why phrase it like that? That gives zero impression of what the actual battery life is because I have no idea what a "flight" means as a unit of measurement. Just te…
I fly FPV drones, I have one very similar to that size. running a 1s 300mah lihv I get about 3 to 5 minutes. 5 minutes damages the battery. but the tiny lihv never liv long enough anyways. I'd expect it to get close to that time, but it has so much more plastic around it. but then again it's not transmitting video.
Do they really believe that ? Can't they just say they sell a fun toy to those who can afford it ?
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I'm not the person you replied to but just dropping this here for others interested: There are some 'open-back' and 'open-ear' headphones that let you hear your environment passively. Others that have more active environment passthrough such as Ambient Sound from Samsung, also exist. This might be a useful gift for a cyclist or jogger that needs situational awareness.
Bone conduction? (Am fairly certain they aren't great if you are going for audiophile level reproduction - but from a safety perspective, they let you hear your environment - note, I have personally never tried them)
For personal safety though, they win hands down. I can hear cars and people easily and I'm much more aware of surroundings. Downside is though that if you are running down a busy road, the sound of cars can override the sound of your audio but for me, that's an acceptable trade off.
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I fly FPV drones, I have one very similar to that size. running a 1s 300mah lihv I get about 3 to 5 minutes. 5 minutes damages the battery. but the tiny lihv never liv long enough anyways. I'd expect it to get close to that time, but it has so much more plastic around it. but then again it's not transmitting video.
Can you recommend a good starter FPV drone?
If you want something that is more "ready to fly" (goggles, quadcopter, transmitter combo) You do have more choices these days:
1) On the more expensive end - You have DJI FPV combo [1]. Is supposedly very beginner friendly. https://store.dji.com/product/dji-fpv?vid=101601
2) On the low end - Something like this https://www.getfpv.com/emax-tinyhawk-ii-freestyle-micro-brus...
The problem with these ready to fly combos - especially on the low end (analog video) is that, you end up getting very toy like transmitter and goggles, that wont be of much use for you once you want to buy/build more quadcopters. So I highly recommend getting the transmitter and goggles separately.
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not just wobbly but what small drone enthusiasts call "jello", significantly lower video quality than like a $399 dji mini 2 it is cheap and non gimbal stabilized, so can't expect much more
Are there no better digital stabilization algorithms? This seems like it could be fixed in post processing on your phone/cloud.
There are obvious issues like how light the device is and how well it would do under windy conditions. Or that the image is not stabilized on a gimbal.
But this is definitely a step in the right direction.
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I think this is going to be one of those things where we learn that nobody actually cares about any of that outside these forums. MP3s were garbage, early camera phones were garbage, Snap picture quality generally is garbage, bluetooth headphones suck, all of these things were and are decried by the tech community, and it turns out that people just don't care, because even at garbage quality it's still cool to have a…
Except that mp3s sucked until the iPod, and camera phones sucked until the iPhone. The idea that product quality, ease of use, UX/UI, or polish doesn't matter is just wrong. This thing is absolutely going to bomb (reminds me of GoPro's Karma) and I'd bet money on it, but SNAP stock is already in dire straits, so their incompetence is probably priced in.
What is this, alternate history?
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Even without the robot angle "cool" aspect of a drone, it's a step along a progression that's shown clear demand: first selfies, then selfie sticks, then no-stick-needed non-selfie selfies.
Drone photography predates selfie sticks.
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No, it doesn’t. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/23/photograph-1...
If you're allowed to use that as an example of a selfie stick, then I should be allowed to use James Wallace Black’s 1860 aerial photography. :-) https://time.com/longform/aerial-photography-drones-history/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-turn-of-th...