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Post by jpalomaki »

xarope wrote: post #351
roughly wrote: post #158

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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…

I do some extreme sports for hobbies, where I am often the only person with the sense of mind to take shots with my trusty olympus TG2 (yes it's old, but still works) of others with me, whether underwater or 6Km above. My professional photographer friend often berates me for my framing, perspective, lighting choices etc, but when I'm hanging almost upside down and only using one hand covered by a mitt, whilst nobody…

Brain is an associative data store. You have lot's of stuff stored there, but you can't recall things without suitable key. Even a technically lousy photo can work as the key that bringz back the memories.

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Post by emteycz »

jolux wrote: post #352
emteycz wrote: post #336

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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.

~nobody used the Sony Ericsson devices though, everyone had stuff like the Motorola Razr with terrible little cameras in them.

It was extremely popular brand in Europe for many years. At one time almost everybody had a good Nokia or Sony Ericsson. I saw Motorola Razr like one time in the wild.

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Post by emteycz »

jordan_curve wrote: post #371
emteycz wrote: post #336

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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.

Can I ask what the name of the book is?

https://www.megaknihy.cz/foto-video/22886-fotime-mobilem.htm...

Can't find it at home to provide some scans, sorry :-/

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Post by Traster »

What on earth is this from a business perspective? Take a social media company that's more successful than twitter and start producing commodity consumer electronics. Yeah, fuck scale, screw network effects, let's get into that market. Maybe one day they can be as valuable as gopro. And by as valuable as GoPro, I mean 45x less valuable than they currently are.

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Post by newaccount74 »

bigiain wrote: post #343
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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…

So far as I can tell there are no real spec numbers anywhere. No video size/framerate/resolultion specs I could find (admittedly I only spent 1 or 2 mins clicking around looking for them). Which kinda indicates the target market they're gonna aim this at. This is for people who want to know "Can I upload the video to Snapchat?" not for people who are wondering "Is this 1080p? Or 720? Surely it can't be 4k?"

I prefer sample videos to specs, because specs are pretty much worthless. The 2021 Macbook Pro has a 1080p camera, but the actual quality is worse than the 720p camera in the 2015 Macbook Pro.

The website has some sample videos, and you can tell the quality is very poor compared to pro drones, but definitely good enough to share with friends and family.

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Post by jolux »

emteycz wrote: post #382
jolux wrote: post #352

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~nobody used the Sony Ericsson devices though, everyone had stuff like the Motorola Razr with terrible little cameras in them.

It was extremely popular brand in Europe for many years. At one time almost everybody had a good Nokia or Sony Ericsson. I saw Motorola Razr like one time in the wild.

Well, I speak from an American perspective and the Razr was everywhere, but according to Wikipedia their peak was around 10% market share. Nokia was much much more popular.

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Post by ge96 »

saidinesh5 wrote: post #375
mrfusion wrote: post #319

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Can you recommend a good starter FPV drone?

The standard advice is: Buy a transmitter and practise for like 5-10 hours in the simulator before pulling the trigger on a real one. Radiomaster Zorro, Jumper T-Pro, TBS Mambo are some good ones. Go directly for ExpressLRS/TBS Tracer long range protocols so you wont have to worry about your quad falling out of sky because of range issues. If you want something that is more "ready to fly" (goggles, quadcopter, transm…

Commenting I like the bicopter design has advanced features like follow user mode and long flight time

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Post by ge96 »

542458 wrote: post #323
achow wrote: post #153

WSJ has good review including how it works: https://www.wsj.com/articles/snap-pixy-review-dont-call-it-a... https://archive.is/zW515 Excerpt: Turn the Pixy’s dial to one of its four flying modes.. Hover: Here, the Pixy reverses a couple of feet and floats in front of you like a hummingbird. In the Snapchat app, you can customize, up to 60 seconds, how long you’d like it to capture video Reveal: Like a traditional dro…

The downwards camera for stabilization and landing is a cool idea. Did they come up with that, or has that been done before?

visual inertial odometery can look at the ground to determine attitude along with imu

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Post by mrfusion »

saidinesh5 wrote: post #375
mrfusion wrote: post #319

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Can you recommend a good starter FPV drone?

The standard advice is: Buy a transmitter and practise for like 5-10 hours in the simulator before pulling the trigger on a real one. Radiomaster Zorro, Jumper T-Pro, TBS Mambo are some good ones. Go directly for ExpressLRS/TBS Tracer long range protocols so you wont have to worry about your quad falling out of sky because of range issues. If you want something that is more "ready to fly" (goggles, quadcopter, transm…

Thanks! My preference would be to start really cheap just to see if I like the hobby and want to stick with it. I don’t think I’d mind buying a better transmitter later.

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Post by ge96 »

dymk wrote: post #197

The one thing that drives me up the wall is being on a beach, or on a hike, and somebody brings out a drone. The whine of the rotors carries much farther than people would like to admit. The ambient screech makes a beautiful natural landscape feel like an anxious techno nightmare. Now make them cheap, connect it to social media, and target them at teens. Let's hope these don't take off (pun intended). At least they c…

My concern was restaurants
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