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On my last indoor, I could not change the flicker compensation from 'auto' to 50 or 60 Hz. The option is simply greyed out. Is it only available in certain modes? Auto did not work at all, and the only way to correct for that was to change the framerate manually to 50 fps. What am I missing?

Nach Menschen I und Menschen II, hier mal wieder ein Erfahrungsbericht der negativen Sorte. Das will ich diesmal nicht als Transskript wiedergeben, sondern viel mehr hinterfragen, wo denn das eigentliche Problem liegt.

Szenario: Flug in einem sehr schönen kleinen Park, Friedenspark (nomen est omen), römische Bogengänge, kleine Festungsanlage. 8 Leute auf der Fläche von zwei Fussbalfeldern verteilt. Zu einem Zeitpunkt fliege ich von unten schräg über eine Mauer in einen der Bögen, und auf der anderen Seite, 10m weiter steht jemand. Also stoppe ich, fliege zurück, und fliege 20m weiter durch einen anderen Bogen. Soweit so gut.

Als ich einpacke, spricht mich die Person an. Es folgt der übliche Ablauf. Es wird ein Verbot erfunden, dann das Recht am Bild diskutiert. Aber dann ging es weiter. China, USA, KI, deutsche IT Infrastruktur. Sicherheitslücken bei der SPD. Traumata in der Familiengeschichte, und zu guter Letzt, der Hinweis, dass ich mich irgendwann vor dem Schöpfer selbst verantworten müsse.

Es ging ganz schnell nicht mehr um unseren konkreten Fall. Sondern um ein persönliches Gerechtigkeitsempfinden. Nachdem die Person dann wilde Behauptungen aufgestellt hatte, wie sie persönlich von der Drohne - von mir - gezielt belästigt und bedroht worden ist, habe ich angeboten dass wir uns das Video vor Ort zusammen ansehen. Wollte sie nicht. Ich habe angeboten, die vier Sekunden in denen sie im Bild ist, vor Ort aus dem Video zu schneiden. Wollte sie auch nicht. Sie wollte, dass ich einsehe, das mein Hobby grundsätzlich und immer unmoralisch ist. Mit dem Rückhalt einer anonymen Mehrheit, 'die das alle nicht wollen'. Das wollte ich wiederum nicht (einsehen)

Das macht klar, die Leute sind zutiefst verunsichert, bis hin verängstigt. Schlecht informiert, von allem überfordert. Und ich kann es nicht verdenken. Panikmache von der Bild Zeitung bis in die öffentlich rechtlichen. Drohnen Krieg anderthalb Länder weiter. Ein permanentes, diffuses unterschwelliges Gefühl, dass jeder jedem andauernd irgendetwas Böses will. Wir sind eine Angstgesellschaft geworden. Natürlich sind wir dass. Hass und Hetze auf Plakaten. Panik macht Kasse. Psychopathen in Machtpositionen.

Ich will hier mal eine Lanze brechen, für die Drohnenhasser. Ich verstehe euch. Ihr habt eine Meinung, die steht euch zu, und ich respektiere die auch. Aber es ist eben nur genau dass. Eine Meinung. Die dürft ihr gerne haben. Aber aus deiner Meinung ergibt sich für mich eben kein Handlungsbedarf. Mir gehen auch viele meiner Mitmenschen auf die Nerven. Und dazu habe ich auch Meinungen. Aber mir fehlt die Egozentrik, anzunehmen, dass alle das was sie tun nur tun um mir aus den Sack zu gehen.

Ich möchte nicht in deinem Video sein. Ja. Ich möchte dich auch nicht in meinem Video haben. Das versaut meine Szene. Ich bin hier um den wunderschönen Park zu Filmen und nicht deinen fetten Arsch. Mist. Jetzt habe ich mich doch hinreißen lassen.

Das Ganze endete mit der üblichen hohlen Warnung dass die Person es nicht auf sich beruhen lassen würde, wenn sie sich jemals online in einem Video sieht. Als ob. Und als ob. Ich habe noch angeboten dass ich noch so lange warten würde bis die Polizei kommt wenn sie diese denn rufen möchte. Wollte sie aber nicht.

Got a collection of Carcassonne games, extensions, merch and a few rarities gathered over quite a few years. Now I am moving to a smaller place, and even though it doesn't take up too much space, I kinda don't want to keep it around.

Is there even a collectors scene for Carcassonne? Any idea what would be the best move to get it into some hands that appreciate it?

Longer sob version: My best buddy gave me my first Carcassonne for my birthday decades ago. From then on it kinda became our thing, almost a competition to get the newest or interesting releases first to give to each other, resulting in this collection beginning in the mid 1990s. Life, as fucked up as it is, made it so that my buddy isn't longer with us for a few years already, and with him gone, the Carcassonne thing has list it's appeal to me entirely, rather even makes me sad sometimes. Kept the collection around, but I think it's time to let that go.

Collection: Most of the games are in german, everything is complete and at least in good to mint condition, some still sealed.

Standalone

- 2x Basic game, 1x Big Box, 1xFigure Edition
- Winter Edition
- Das Schicksalsrad
- Amazonas
- Safari
- Star Wars + Star Wars Erweiterung
- Goldrausch + Sheriff
- Mayflower
- Die Burg
- Neues Land
- Südsee + Freitag
- Die Jäger und Sammler
- Die Kinder von Carcassonne
- Schafe und Hügel

Extensions

- Manege Frei
- Schafe und Hügel
- Abtei und Bürgermeister
- Brücken, Burgen und Basare
- Graf, König und Konsorten
- Burgfräulein und Drache
- Die Erweiterung (2x)
- Der Turm
- Das Katapult

Sonstiges

- Die Stadt
- Das Kartenspiel
- Das Würfelspiel
- Reisecarcassone
- special meeples
- offizielle Sonderbögen von Messen (Essen) und aus dem Spiel-Magazin
- some merch
- official meeple sticker

Rarities

- Der Fluß I (misprinted version, black backsides)
- signed Carcassone Book
- official Games Fair releases
- Die Kornkreise
- Die Häuser
- Der Lebkuchenmann
- Das Festival
- Kathedralen in Deutschland
- Klöster in Deutschland
- Die Pest
- Die Tunnel
- Die Windrose
- Die Schule

Spin off:

- Baumeister des Königs

Indoor, no GPS

Went to the park to fly with goggles and motion controller and fpv controller. Just to try the technicals. The resulting footage was - as expected - meh. So, a quick AI generation and some epic music later ...

Well, this was a tricke one. Not the flight itself, but dealing with the video quality. Directly from the drone it quite frankly sucked. Took a lot of post processing to get it somewhat decent. De-noising, de-sharpening, fiddling with exposure, adding motion blur, vignetting. In the end I exported it in 1080p instead of 4k, because there was only little difference aftzer all that treatment. It is watchable now, if you dont pull it up in full size on 4k screens.

To be fair, low light here means actually no light. For that the Avata360 performance is ok. Not great, not even comparable with my Air3s, but still ok. An even way better then what I have seen in those YT compare pixel peeping videos.

Also in low light there are a lot of stitching problems that I was only be able to resolve with some more creative framing.

For this run, I knew exactly where I wanted to fly and more important what I wanted to fly. In this case the Immelmann maneuver, a movement allegedly invented by the german WW I fighter pilot max Immelmann. Today it is flown in flight acrobatics as a chandelle, or often used in roller coasters. In drone acro flight the 'split s' is a deconstructed version of it. Essentially its a combination of a (forward) looping and a barrel roll. That is not easy to do with a fixed wing aircraft, and downright impossible with a 'normal' drone. But with the avata360 ...

If you take out the looping and the roll, which is to be done in post, the rest could not be easier. Fly in straight over the bridge, lower down behind it and pass back under the bridge. Super easy. Sinc I wanted to position the drone at the right height anyway and wanted to be a bit more dynamic in the second half of the movement, I decided to fly over the bridge backwards, and then pass under the bridge forward.

With this plan in mind the actual flight was less than 5 minutes. The lack of configuration of speedramps between keyframes in DJI Studio can be compensated by using the overall custom speed control fir each clip. Using this you can exaggerate the built-in speed ramps to create a fluid smooth motion, that gives the impression to be in an aircraft with actuall weight and inertia. Takes a bit of fiddling though.

So ya, you still need to plan you flights when you have a certain result in mind, but the execution is just way easier.

While I was at a local park, I noticed the mini train turning it's rounds and spontaneously took the opportunity. I wanted to get a feel for speed and distances, and trying out tracking modes. Unfortunately the system failed to recognize that little train as some kind of vehicle most of the time, and lost the object to a point where I just flew estimating When it worked, having the flight view and the tracking view gives a very safe and comfy feeling, when it did not work, it was still relaxing to do, because I knew I could reframe in post, and there would be usable footage out of it.

Still getting used to the crazy FOV and found that I could have gone way closer to the object, then again there were people in the park, so I rather played it safe and kept some altitude, also not to annoy people too much.

Finally. After all the preorder trouble foloowed by bad weather, finally. Today I took the avata360 for its first flight, and it went great. This thing is made for me. Used the RC2 to get a feel for how the drone reacts. It perfroms just as expected, but I didnt expect to have that much fun, while the same time creative doors opened for me. I do fly my neos a lot, use my Air3s as a work horse, but since I am result oriented, the 'work' and focus aspect on those is way more intense. the avate360 just frees me from having to plan and perform the framing, and helps me to focus on the motive.

One of my favourite photographers, Sebastiao Salgado, famously often ditches the technical artistry of photography in favour of actually seeing the motive and finding stories to tell. This is what the avata360 does. It allows me to split the technical performance from the visual, and allows me to create visuals that I could not have done with a 'normal' drone. Be it the lack of my skill, or the physical limitations.

I am pretty happy after my first run, and while I still not have edited all the footage, my brain already sparks with new ideas and places to go next to.

This is a first a a few following practice videos, just for fun and to learn. Lets call it part 1, getting to know the drone.

Laut einer Pressemitteilung aus Bad Neuenahr sollen dort nun JEGLICHE Drohnenflüge vorab beim Ordnungsamt angezeigt und genehmigt werden müssen.

Not regarding legal obligations, or the lack thereof, there is a general understanding of the mutual benefits of preorders.

DJI gets early insights into demand, can manage logistics, keeps the hype alive, securs funding to work with. The preordering client gets the product on release (or in many cases early access or other perks). He takes the risk of the product turning out to be shitty or not finalized (looking at you games industry, NEVER preorder games).

After talking to a number of fellow DJI victims who - like I - preordered the Avata360 on Day1, 26.03.2026 directly through the DJI Store ans STILL don't have anything delivered, I had a chat to DJI Support (very nice but unable to give more insights), then to PR/social media (just provided prebuilt textblocks), and finally to someone from local sales management (super annoyeyed themselves with DJIs logistics).

Turns out that DJI does not give a flippin flugg about preorders at all. The vast majority of the first batch of production has been distributed to shelf up 3rd party sellers / online stores. Where units are still available in abundance, gathering dust, while most preorder clients still did not get their orders. International DJI logistic centers are 'sold out' and are currently waiting for for the next production batch to arrive.

This is not how preorders work, DJI. Already from a moral point of view, it has to be preorders first. We already paid. And you deliberatly chose to put us last in a waiting queue.

My own order is on 'ready to ship' since 17.04.2026, current estimated shipping date is 05.05.2025.

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DJI, Do better.