MombasaFlash
Heli's & Tele's bloke
So, the little split-arm MK Octo is performing really nicely (see pic below from a pre-shoot test yesterday for the local Radisson Blu hotel - the shoot will be redone using my big gasser because that is the only platform I currently have capable of carrying the 5D).
Right at the end of the session it lost a blade - maybe a flying beetle or something - and it wasn't phased at all. It did a small WTF wobble and then carried on as if nothing was amiss.
If it had happened at the 200 odd feet where some of the pics were taken I would not have heard the small 'ping' as the blade shot off and would not have discovered it until the octo had landed.
That has well and truly illustrated the 'redundancy' issue and I will stay firmly in the flat eight camp.
If it was not for the fact that all Droidworx heavy-lift flat 8's seem to be out of stock I would have already bought one as Phase Two of the Multi-Rotor exercise.
BUT, I have a question. The little MK Octo is fitted with eight motor-angle plates and I have to say I like it. Once it is parked in the sky it can then be very controllably and minutely yawed to get the camera angle. My question is whether or not the same can be achieved with the round tubes of a DW or whether the motor mounting plate clamps locate into special holes in the tubes to ensure vertical alignment.
Anybody with a DW care to enlighten?
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Right at the end of the session it lost a blade - maybe a flying beetle or something - and it wasn't phased at all. It did a small WTF wobble and then carried on as if nothing was amiss.
If it had happened at the 200 odd feet where some of the pics were taken I would not have heard the small 'ping' as the blade shot off and would not have discovered it until the octo had landed.
That has well and truly illustrated the 'redundancy' issue and I will stay firmly in the flat eight camp.
If it was not for the fact that all Droidworx heavy-lift flat 8's seem to be out of stock I would have already bought one as Phase Two of the Multi-Rotor exercise.
BUT, I have a question. The little MK Octo is fitted with eight motor-angle plates and I have to say I like it. Once it is parked in the sky it can then be very controllably and minutely yawed to get the camera angle. My question is whether or not the same can be achieved with the round tubes of a DW or whether the motor mounting plate clamps locate into special holes in the tubes to ensure vertical alignment.
Anybody with a DW care to enlighten?
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