u/thats_no_wallaby

Shot on some old kodak gold

Instax mini for the lols. I'll make a proper wiggle post in a bit to make up for the lack of wiggles here, please don't hurt me

Instax doesn't at all fit in the camera, I took advantage of how tough the film is to make this work. The photo is of a guitar btw

I felt kinda bad because he started going on and on about how he'd traversed the sands of time and spiritual realms that us mortals couldn't even fathom in order to reach me about my car's extended warranty, but my car has a salvage title so it doesn't even qualify. He was bummed but he said my camera was neat.

Double exposure btw

Shooting landscape with this camera is a bit of a challenge

The coffee cups were carefully calibrated for this shoot.

For those wondering, I have to load/unload this camera in a light proof film-change bag, one shot at a time, and then manually feed the film through rollers scavenged from a polaroid camera. It's a process but it's worth it.

I posted the other week about my new fpv addiction after 8hrs in Velocidrone. I put around 2 more hours in over the next few days then finally found a field to try it out IRL.

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One edge of the field is against a busy road and lake, another is against an area with federal trespassing charges if you cross into it and then knee high brush lines the rest, so my palms were definitely a little sweaty at first

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After getting a feel for the rates and throttle response, and trying to lose whatever was on the lens, I was able to relax and start having a little fun around 1:30 in

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I crashed and lost a prop but I'm super happy with the flight because it showed me that it's something I can get good at if I put the hours in, especially since moving on to a purpose built cinewhoop down the road for real estate fly throughs was initially why I started teaching myself acro. Now the urge to eventually dive into freestyle is real.

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I had more props but years of skateboarding, BMX and drifting told me to call it a day before I let myself get too comfy and cause some real damage on my first day out in acro lol

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Fun stuff

I have no illusions that my dji Avata will handle anywhere near how this race drone in the sim handles and I know I still have a lot to learn as far as low speed precision goes and probably feathering the throttle more instead of just punching it, but man am I having a blast flinging this thing around now that I'm not having to consciously think about the sticks as I'm flying.

I'm using a dji fpv controller 2 BTW. No idea what the rates are set to in the sim.

My background is in BMX, MTB, skateboarding and racing and drifting cars. I feel like I'm able to incorporate pieces of all of those here which makes it so much fun. I'm already looking at places differently the way bmx/skateboarding makes you look at a downtown spot differently or drifting makes you look at a set of turns on a road differently.

I have my part-107 for aerial photo stuff with gps drones, so I'm familiar with the regulations and legal nonsense and was actually only intending to learn manual flying for some additional work stuff.

The only experience I have with fpv is seeing people fly them out at drift events while I'm driving or shooting traditional photos/video. I had no idea there was even a different controller setup being used until I saw the "M" mode toggle on my controller when I picked up my Avata recently and googled it. It suddenly made a lot more sense how people fly them the way they do haha

I'm 100% a tinkerer and modder in other hobbies, so I'm sure I'll be sucked into the world of building drones once I eventually dive into learning the tech side of things. I'm already about to do a full frame swap on a wrecked dji mini 3 pro for work soon

Anyways, I accidentally found a huge, fun world I was unaware of and I look forward to learning a ton from you guys.

Aside from Josh Bardwell and botgrinder who I've already stumbled across, who are some fpv youtubers I should check out?

These cameras were great for a long time but have developed more and more SD card issues over the last year or so. Just curious what cards you all are using or if anyone has encountered and solved this issue. One of our cameras works fine most of the time with the same cards.

All the SD cards work fine in other cameras and all cards seems fine even when taken out of the Wyze cameras that are having issues.

I'm a photographer/videographer so I have several micro SD cards used in various cameras, action cams, drones and other constantly recording applications. The wyze cams are the only ones where they have issues.

Issues:

Camera 1: Gives "unsupported Micro SD card" error 100% of the time, even with cards that work in our other Wyze camera.

Camera 2: SD cards will work for a short period then start giving "no video available" messages when you try to look back through the video.

Camera 3: Works most of the time but will have gaps in the video or randomly need the card ejected then reinstalled.

Things I've tried:

I've formatted the cards in the camera, in computers and in several other cameras. Fat32

I've made sure the cameras and the app are all updated.

I've factory reset the cameras multiple times.

I've installed the cards with the wyze cameras turned on and with them turned off.

I tried switching power supplies and using newer and more powerful ones with no success.

Micro SD cards used:

Various used and brand new cards including SanDisk Extreme, Ultra Plus and High Endurance cards. The issues persist with all of them. Ones that work in our one good Wyze cam won't work in the other two even if swapped straight in from the working one.

These cameras have only ever been used indoors and have never been dropped or subjected to moisture, extreme temps or power surges.

We're very close to ditching these for another brand if we can't get this figured out.