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Regarding 4K, I liked Philip Bloom's take on it: http://philipbloom.net/2013/10/10/4kraw/

I lived in Portugal for 12 years - moved back here to UK a year ago. I'm designing the next generation of AP gear (modest, huh?) - couldn't get the engineering support I needed in Portugal.

Definitely :) ... and nice van too!

I agree I'm (strongly) biased towards stills but I don't believe it's much different in the video world. Film makers are just as obsessive about "glass" - perhaps even more so, based on dollar spend. As a stills photographer I've always worked on the basis that you can't have too much IQ but you...

DxOMark is a great site for objective comparison of lenses (and cameras) - they even test the same lens on different bodies (where appropriate)...

I have a few images with Getty. It hasn't made me rich but I have made a few bucks, far more than if the same number of images had been placed with a lower-end site. I don't expect that to change with the new arrangement - if anything, it might get better since the images may receive targeted...

Agree with a software change - ipBoard (http://www.invisionpower.com/) is super-clean with great features.

In the Basecam GUI, for "NUM.POLES" enter the number of magnets (as Droider says, should be 8 for a Maxon motor) multiplied by the gearing ratio for that axis. So, for example, for 8 poles at 10:1 gearing, you would enter 80. Not sure if "pole pairs" is the same as "poles", so the value for...

The "article" seems to have been written by the FAA. It includes all the usual blurring of language, particularly the difference between "policy" and "law". Myth #6 is a joke and typical of the USA's insular view of the world.

ary - that's the older 14-42 - not the new "X" pancake-style lens :) http://www.photozone.de/olympus--four-thirds-lens-tests/765_pana14423556hd

Interesting lens - certainly as a carry-around lens it's great, but not sure if the premium price is worthwhile for AP. Only 60-odd grams lighter than the regular 14-42 and no (apparent) way to zoom during flight. The barrel extends when switched on so it's actually on a little smaller than the...

MK is pushing their new "redundant" system too - but, like ZAxis says, it ain't the real thing without three systems and a voting scheme. Micropilot does it - http://www.micropilot.com/products-mp21283x.htm - but only for heli and fixed wing.

I'll take it - but do I have to take the hexacopter as well?

I've never bought anything from DJI but you only have to look in the DJI forum here to see many tales of woe and frustration - but there's always other users who say they've never had a problem. Going the DJI route would save you a lot of time and hassle with a kit- or scratch-build, but that's...

Good general advice but, strangely, MDF dust and aluminium dust are far more dangerous. I use a wet tile saw to cut down large CF sheets and to cut CF tubing to length. On the CNC an efficient shop-vac (with a sub-5 micron filter) attached to the head takes the debris away (CF and MDF). For...

The Kraken has some design problems that seem to stick out: - doesn't look feasible to leave the gimbal in place when folding the arms - the arms are longer than the landing gear so you have to invert the whole thing to fold it - the motor mounts look like they'd have trouble with large...

Some nasty sun-flair there - and it shows up every spec of dust on the filter's front surface when pointed into the sun. That's going to be tricky in the air. Nevertheless I think this lens will look better in the air - on the ground the rectilinear stretching is almost as distracting as the...

:) Ah! The Health & Safety Police! We LOVE them here in the UK :) Risk Assessment is a basically straightforward list of "what could go wrong" and "how to prevent these things from happening". For example: a brick could fall on your head - wear a hard hat. Simple, huh? See...

Crimped terminals lugs - I like crimped connections (more durable than soldered) but the ampacity of the connection to the board may be a bit variable since it depends on tightness of the securing nut. Soldered - big problem is that there is no built-in way to support the joint, so big...

Thi sis the big, glaring problem with bullet connectors - they will tend to loosen themselves with vibration, it's inherent to the design. If they're really well made then they can hold together but at the expensive of being a b**ch to separate. As has been said above, heat shrink over them is...